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The undersigned members of the board of investigation for said county appointed by an act of the Legislature submitted an act to repair the damage occasioned by the destruction of the records and public documents of said county approved the first day of February A.D. 1843. Report that satisfactory evidence has this day been addenced before the said board that xxx xxxx [unknown words] about the Month of October A.D. 1840 . Micajah Etherton and Rachel his wife Executed acknowledged and delivered to Samuel Etherton for and in consideration of the sum of six hundred dollars a general warrantee deed for the North East quarter of the South East quarter of Section Twenty One, the South East quarter of the South West quarter of Section Twenty Two, and the North East quarter of the North East quarter of Section Ten all in Township No. Ten South Range No. two West which said deed it apears was sometime in the Spring of the year 1841 filed with the recorder of Jackson County was duly recorded, and not being taken from the office was consumed in the fire that destroyed the records of the
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Source: Jackson County Illinois Deed Record Book D
Transcribed on 4/2/97 by JAE from a poor photocopy.
See Also: This property is also mentioned in a 1842 deed and a 1850 deed.
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