Docket Entry, Answer Filed, 20 October 1843 [Clayton v. E. W. Rhodes et al.]

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Docket Entry, Answer Filed, 20 October 1843 [Clayton v. E. W. Rhodes et al.]
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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, 20 Oct. 1843], Clayton v. E. W. Rhodes et al. (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court, in
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1843); Hancock County Circuit Court, Chancery Court Records, 1838–1924, vol. B, p. 422; handwriting of
David E. Head
27 Apr. 1818–1 May 1877. Clerk, merchant. Born in Washington Co., Kentucky. Moved to Macomb, McDonough Co., Illinois, ca. 1834. Deputy clerk of McDonough Co. Deputy clerk of Hancock Co., Illinois, circuit court, by 16 May 1843. Clerk of Hancock Co. Circuit...
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William Clayton
17 July 1814–4 Dec. 1879. Bookkeeper, clerk. Born at Charnock Moss, Penwortham, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. Married Ruth Moon, 9 Oct. 1836, at Penwortham. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Heber...
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Eunice [Wright] Rhodes et al)

This day Came the
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by his solicitor and the said Eunice Rhodes and Orrin Rhodes [blank] adult defendants herein having failed to appear and plead, answer or
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to the
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s bill filed herein as by a rule of court entered herein heretofore they were required to do, it is Ordered that the said
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s bill and the matters and things therein contained be taken for Confessed against them.—

And now on this day Came the infant Defendants herein by their Guardian ad litem and filed their answer herein in pursuance of a rule of court entered herein heretofore. [p. 422]
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