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Order of Commitment, 11 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson]
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Order of Commitment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, [11 Apr. 1839], State of MO v. Baldwin et al. for Arson (Daviess Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of ; certified by , 11 Apr. 1839; certified by William Morgan, , MO, 6 July 1839; docket and notation by , [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO], [11 Apr. 1839]; four pages; Historical Department, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL. Includes seal.
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this is to cirtify that I executed the within order by takng the bodys of Joseph Smith Jr and and in to my custoday and that I Sumoned a gard of four four men to wit Wilson McKinney [McKinny] and John Pope to asist me in taking the Said Smith and others from E B Creekmores in the County of to the town of Columbia in the County of State of as commanded by Said order and that on the way from <said> E B Creekmores in the County of to the town of Columbia aforesaid on the 16th day of april 1839 the Smith and others made their escape without the convience [connivance] concent or negligance of myself or gard
July 6th 1839
William Morgan Shereff of [p. [3]]
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Certification in handwriting of William Morgan.