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District of Columbia} to wit:
County of Washington}

I ________________ Notary Public within & for said County & District __________ do hereby certify that Myrtilla Alvord the wife of John W Alvord party to a certain Deed, bearing date on the _______ day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight, and hereunto annexed, personally appeared before me in my County aforesaid, the said Myrtilla, who being personally known to me to be the person who executed the said Deed, and being by me examined privily apart from her husband, and having the Deed aforesaid fully explained to her, she, the said Myrtilla acknowledged the same to be her act and deed, and declared that she had willingly signed, sealed, and delivered the same, and that she wished not to retract it.

Given under my hand and official seal this _________ day of June A.D. 1868

Transcription Notes:
privily = confidentially