Coroner’s Jury Verdict, circa 24 October 1844 [State of Illinois v. Williams et al.]

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Coroner’s Jury Verdict, circa 24 October 1844 [State of Illinois v. Williams et al.]
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Wesley Williams
24 Mar. 1792–12 May 1870. Lawyer, postmaster, court clerk, county recorder. Born in Lincoln Co., Kentucky. Served in War of 1812. Married first Elizabeth Ayers, 2 Apr. 1816, in Bourbon Co. Moved to Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois, ca. 1825. Moved to Hancock Co...
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, Franklin J. Bartlett, Aaron Griffiths, Anthony Barkian, George C. Waggoner, Peter Bican,
George Bachman
ca. 1802–after Mar. 1857. Possibly born in New York. Son of Jacob Bachman and Sarah Borzenbanack. Practiced law in Springfield, Sangamon Co., Illinois, and in Hancock Co., Illinois, 1840s. Member of jury that testified about manner of deaths of JS and Hyrum...
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, Thomas Barnett, Elam Freeman, John Mahernar, Simeon Pennock, and Samuel Gilpin, Coroner’s Jury Verdict,
Carthage
Located eighteen miles southeast of Nauvoo. Settled 1831. Designated Hancock Co. seat, Mar. 1833. Incorporated as town, 27 Feb. 1837. Population in 1839 about 300. Population in 1844 about 400. Site of acute opposition to Latter-day Saints, early 1840s. Site...
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, Hancock Co., IL, ca. [24] Oct. 1844, State of IL v. Williams et al. (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1845). Published in “Mormon Prophets,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sept. 1890, [1].

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See Introduction to State of Illinois v. Williams et al. and State of Illinois v. Elliott–C.
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