Release of Dower, 7 February 1852 [United States v. Joseph Smith III et al.]
Release of Dower, 7 February 1852 [United States v. Joseph Smith III et al.]
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and Lewis C. Bidamon, Release of Dower, , Hancock Co., IL, to , 7 Feb. 1852, U.S. v. Joseph Smith III et al. (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1852). Copied [ca. 17 July 1852] in Transcript of Proceedings, U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois, Complete Records, 1837–1856, vol. 4, pp. 692–693; handwriting of ; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21, National Archives at Chicago, Chicago.
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In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals at the day and year aforesaid.
L. C. Bidamon (seal)
(seal)
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
M[ilton] M. Morrill
| State of Illinois) | ss. [scilicet] |
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I, Milton M. Morrill an acting Justice of the Peace of said do hereby certify that on this 7th. day of February A. D. 1852 before me came personally and Lewis C. Bidamon her husband to me personally known to be the real persons described in and who executed the foregoing Release of Dower and acknowledged that they had executed the same freely and voluntarily for the uses and purposes therein expressed, and the , on a private examination by me seperate and apart from her said husband after I had made her acquainted with and explained to her the contents and effects of said Release of Dower, acknowledged that she had executed the same freely for the purposes therein expressed freely and voluntarily with [blank] fear, compulsion or undue influence of her said husband and relinquished her dower in said premises.
In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid.
M. M. Morrill J. P. (seal) [p. 693]
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