Transcript of Proceedings, , Sangamon Co., IL, ca. 17 July 1852, U.S. v. Joseph Smith III et al. (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1852); U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois, Complete Records, 1837–1856, vol. 4, pp. 486–697; handwriting of ; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21, National Archives at Chicago, Chicago.
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
G[eorge] Edmunds Jr
State of Illinois)
ss [scilicet]
)
I, George Edmunds Jr. a notary public of in said County do hereby certify that on this 23d day of January A. D. 1851, before me came personally and Lewis C. Bidamon her husband to me personally known to be the real persons described and who executed the foregoing and within relinquishment of dower and acknowledged that they executed the same freely and voluntarily for the uses and purposes therein expressed, and the said on a private examination by me seperate and apart from her said husband, after I had made known to and explained to her the contents of said deed, acknowledged that she executed the same freely and voluntarily and thereby relinquished her dower in said premises, without fear or compulsion of her said husband.
L. S.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal notarial at Ill. the day and year first aforesaid.
G. Edmunds Jr
N. P. Ill.
This day to wit the sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
We command you that you summon John J. Brent, Thomas Wilson, George Greer, Frederick R. Prentice , John Smith, , E. Morrill, Leonard T Ferris, Hick[i]son Wright, A. W. Williams, James Ward, J. Moyall, W. Ward, J[ames] McIlvaine, Matthew McClaughey [McClaughry], J[ames] Richardson, A[mos] W. Condit, W. W. Noyse, F[itzgerald] Woolley, E. W. Turner and I[saac] R. Welch, if they be found in your District, to be and appear before our Judges of our Circuit Court of the for the District of [p. 656]