McFall presented a claim to the Nauvoo City Council on 12 July 1842, which was allowed on 20 August and this order written. The transaction was recorded in the Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger on 21 August 1843. (Claim from Hugh McFall, 8 July 1842; Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, Jan.–Nov. 1842, 36, 38; Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 7, 46.)