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.
the use of the , to have and to hold the same unto the said their Grantees and assigns forever.
In witness whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals the day and year aforesaid.
L. C. Bidamon (seal)
(seal)
In presence of
G[eorge] Edmunds Jr.
State of Illinois)
ss [scilicet]
)
I. Milton M. Morrill an acting Justice of the Peace of said do hereby certify that on this 22d day of July A. D. 1851 before me came personally at, Hancock County Illinois, 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 contained on this sheet of paper and severally acknowledged that they executed the same for the uses and purposes therein expressed, and the said wife of said Lewis C. on a private examination by me seperate and apart from her said husband acknowledged that she had executed the same freely and voluntarily without fear or compulsion of her said husband and thereby relinquished her dower in said premises and I certify that I fully explained and made known to her the contents and effects of said relinquishment.
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal at Hancock County Ill, the day and year aforesaid.
M. M. Morrill J. P. (seal)
This day, to wit, the thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two, came the Special Commissioner appointed in this cause and filed his report herein
The undersigned, a Special Commissioner appointed by the Court herein at the July Term of said Court A.D. 1850, to make sale of certain lands and town lots described in said decree appointing said Commissioner and hereinafter described respectfully reports as follows.
That in obedience to said decree and by virtue of his appointment as commissioner as aforesaid he caused a notice to be published in the Popular Tribune, a newspaper published in the County of and State of , that said sale would take place on the 11th. day of October A. D. 1851; that by order of the complainants [p. 681]