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Affidavit, 20 May 1844 [Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law]
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, Affidavit, before , [], Hancock Co., IL, 20 May 1844, Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1843); handwriting of ; signatures of and ; docket by , [, Hancock Co., IL, 20 May 1844]; notation probably by , [ca. 20 May 1844]; notation by , 21 May 1844; four pages; microfilm in Circuit Court Case Files, 1830–1900, CHL. Includes redactions.
In 1844, this document was filed at the Hancock County Circuit Court in , Illinois. Sometime in the ensuing decades, it was transferred to the Illinois State Archives. In 2000, the Micrographic Services Division of the Illinois State Archives microfilmed a subset of Hancock County Circuit Court case files from 1830 to1900 that were descriptively titled, “Cases pertaining to Mormon residents.” In 2000, staff of the Church Historical Department (now CHL) obtained a copy of this microfilm from Karl Moore, a managing archivist of the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) program. In 2013, the microfilm was cataloged. Subsequent efforts by the Joseph Smith Papers Project to locate the original records at the IRAD depository for Hancock County records were unsuccessful. As of 2022, the document is unlocated.
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Historical Introduction
off this s defense & that said has no interst therein
That this hopes and expects to establish by said witnesses that the said notes were both in the possession of and not assigned by said Smith to any one till long after each of them were become due. That that this application is not made for the purposses of delay but that justice may be done &c
Wherefore he prays a continuance of this Cause &c
Sworn to and subcribed before me this <20th> day of May AD 1844
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Signature of Wilson Law.
Insertion in handwriting of Jacob B. Backenstos.
Signature of Jacob B. Backenstos.