Legal - Hancock County Land Deed, 31 October 1842
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS—That Ethan Kimball of the county of Orange,
and State of Vermont, has this day for and in consideration of the sum of Fifty
dollars in hand paid by Wilford Woodruff
of the County of Hancock and State of Illinois, ^grant^ bargained and sold unto the said Wilford
Woodruff a certain lot or piece of land lying and situated in
Kimball's second addition to Nauvoo in said county and state last mentioned, as will more fully ap-
pear by refference to the plat of said addition, being lot No. four in block No. twelve
in said addition to the Town of Nauvoo.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD The above described lot or piece of land with all and singular the
appurtenances thereunto belonging to him the said Wilford Woodruff
his heirs and assigns forever.
And the said ETHAN KIMBALL for himself his heirs and assigns administrators and executors,
do warrant and forever defend the title of the lot or piece of land against every person or persons claim-
ing by, through, or under him any manner whatsoever. ^or any other persons whatever^
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF He has hereunto set his name and affixed his seal this 31st
day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two
The word grant is interlined
between the third and fourth lines
Ethan Kimball [SEAL.]
His Attorney Hiram Kimball
State of Illinois
County of Hancock} I Daniel H Wells an acting justice
of the peace of said county do certify that Hiram
Kimball whose signature appears to the
foregoing Deed and who sis personally known
to me to be the identical person who execu-
ted the same, and acknowledged that
he had executed the same freely, and for
the uses and purposes therein mentioned and
expressed. Given under my hand
