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Lot 119

A KIRTLAND DEED SIGNED BY JOSEPH SMITH ASSOCIATE WILLIAM MILLER.
MILLER, WILLIAM. 1814-1875.
Document Signed ("William Miller"), releasing his interest in a parcel of land co-owned with Joseph Smith and sold to William Marks,

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A KIRTLAND DEED SIGNED BY JOSEPH SMITH ASSOCIATE WILLIAM MILLER.

MILLER, WILLIAM. 1814-1875. Document Signed ("William Miller"), releasing his interest in a parcel of land co-owned with Joseph Smith and sold to William Marks, 1 p, on foolscap, legal folio, Geauga County, Ohio, November 4, 1837, also signed by Justus Blood and William A. Cowdery, leaf creased and moderately toned, light spotting overall, darkening at horizontal creases.

SMITH ASSOCIATE RELEASES HIS INTEREST IN A CO-OWNED PLOT OF LAND.
In part: "Know all men by these presents that I William Miller of the County of Geauga ... for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars to me in hand paid by William Marks of the county aforesaid ... have granted bargained sold remised and quit claimed ... unto the said William Marks and his heirs and assigns forever all my right and title to that piece or parsel of land situated in Kirtland Township & County & State aforesaid deeded to William Miller William Smith Don Carlos Smith and Joseph Smith Jr, all of Kirtland Township ... by Peter French & Sarah French his wife which deed bears date the fifth day of October A.D. [1836]...."

This document is a codicil to lot 127 (or one of the other documents selling Smith's land to William Marks), as Miller releases his interest in one of the plots of land under consideration so that the sale can proceed.

In later years, Miller served as Mayor of Provo, Utah.

Footnotes

This lot relates to the family of Mormon leader Newel K. Whitney (1795-1850), an early convert to the LDS Church who took up a leadership role at Kirtland alongside Joseph Smith which continued through Nauvoo until his death in Utah in 1850. N.K. Whitney was the eldest of 10 children of Samuel F. Whitney III and his wife Susannah. After N.K.'s conversion, his parents and several of his siblings also joined the LDS Church, although not his brother Samuel F. Whitney IV, who figures largely in the correspondence presented here, and through whose line of descent these documents likely hail.

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