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Declaration, circa 8 May 1844 [Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law]
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on behalf of assignee of JS, Declaration, , IL, ca. [8] May 1844, Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1843); handwriting of ; docket and notation by with signature of , [, Hancock Co., IL], 9 May 1844; four pages; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; microfilm 1,637,612 at FHL.
This document was presumably filed at the Hancock County Circuit Court in , Illinois, in 1844. Sometime in the ensuing decades, it was removed from the custody of the court. In 1976, the Church Historical Department (now CHL) acquired the document from Sam Weller’s Zion Book Store, a store operated by Sam and Lila Weller in Salt Lake City. In 1986, the Church Historical Department returned this and many other legal documents to the Hancock County Circuit Court. In 1989, the Genealogical Society of Utah (now FHL) microfilmed the document at the Hancock County courthouse.
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See folder for Declaration, ca. 8 May 1844, in Hancock County, IL, Probate and Court Records, ca. 1850–1963, item 3, Miscellaneous Court Records, ca. 1827–1839, microfilm 1,637,612,U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Acquisition Sheet and Instrument of Gift, 31 Aug. 1976, 76–327, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Historical Department. Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, ca. 1825–1890. CHL. CR 100 339.
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See full bibliographic entry for Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, 1829–1973, CHL; Turley, Victims, 346.
Historical Department. Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, ca. 1825–1890. CHL. CR 100 339.
Turley, Richard E., Jr. Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
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Hancock County, IL, Probate and Court Records, ca. 1850–1963, item 3, Miscellaneous Court Records, ca. 1827–1839, microfilm 1,637,612, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
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Historical Introduction
hundred Dollars with interest at six per cent per annum for value received— Which notes were regularly assigned by the Said Joseph Smith to the Said Plaintiff by means of which premises and by virtue of the Said assignment <and by force of the Statute in such Cases made & Provided> the Said became Liable to Pay to the said the Said Sum of money in the Said notes Specified according to the tenor and Effect of the Said Promissory notes Yet the said hath wholly Disregarded his said promises and hath not paid the said Sum of money in the Said notes Specified nor any part thereof although often requested So to do but hath hitherto refused and Still doth refuse to the damage of the Said Plaintiff three hundred & fifty Dollars therefor he brings this Suit—
P. Q,
| ass[ign]ee of Joseph Smith | |
| vs) | Declaration |
Filed May 9 1844
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Docket and notation in handwriting of David E. Head.
Signature of Jacob B. Backenstos.