Footnotes
Andrus et al., Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 1825–1906, 5–6.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Footnotes
Examples of more Commerce-area bonds and promissory notes to which JS was a party are available on this website.
Caption on Photograph of Elijah Able, copy, George A. Smith Photograph Collection, CHL; Elders License for Elijah Able, 31 Mar. 1836, in Kirtland Elders’ Certificates, 61; Record of Seventies, 20 Dec. 1836, 11; Elijah Able to Oliver Granger, Deed, 15 June 1837, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.
George A. Smith Photograph Collection, ca. 1862–1873. Photographs of originals. CHL. Originals in private possession.
Record of Seventies / First Council of the Seventy. “Book of Records,” 1837–1843. Bk. A. In First Council of the Seventy, Records, 1837–1885. CHL. CR 3 51, box 1, fd. 1.
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
The 1840 Hancock, Illinois, census (in which Able is not included) lists only fourteen “Free Colored Persons” among the nearly ten thousand individuals then residing in the county. In 1850 only 14 percent of free blacks in Illinois owned real property. (1840 U.S. Census, Hancock Co., IL, 155–222; Zucker, “Race Relations in Ante-Bellum Illinois,” 326.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Zucker, Charles N. “The Free Negro Question: Race Relations in Ante-Bellum Illinois, 1801–1860.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 1972.
See Zucker, “Race Relations in Ante-Bellum Illinois,” 27–75, 157–185; Adams, “Lincoln’s First Freed Slave,” 235–259; and Bailey v. Cromwell, 4 Ill. (3 Scammon), 71–73 (Ill. Sup. Ct. 1841).
Zucker, Charles N. “The Free Negro Question: Race Relations in Ante-Bellum Illinois, 1801–1860.” PhD diss., Northwestern University, 1972.
Adams, Carl. “Lincoln’s First Freed Slave: A Review of Bailey v. Cromwell, 1841.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 101, nos. 3 and 4 (Fall–Winter 2008): 235–259.
Scammon / Scammon, J. Young. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. 4 vols. St. Louis: W. J. Gilbert, 1869–1870.
Although the lot cost $600, this bond obligated JS, Rigdon, and Hyrum Smith to pay twice the amount of the purchase price if they did not deliver title to the land.
The lot of land Able purchased was located near the shores of the Mississippi River on the northwest corner of the intersection of Kimball and Hill streets.
None of the promissory notes associated with this bond have been located.
Signatures of JS, Sidney Rigdon, and Hyrum Smith.
TEXT: All three instances of “LS” (locus sigilli, Latin for “location of the seal”) are inscribed within hand-drawn representations of seals.