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Ebenezer Jennings
ca. Dec. 1793–20 Aug. 1868. Born in Vermont. Served in War of 1812. Married Electa Willard, by ca. 1819. Moved to Geauga Co., Ohio, by 1823; to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, by May 1842; and to Genesee Co., Michigan. Died in Genesee Co.
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and sixty-nine others, Petition,
Nauvoo
Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
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, Hancock Co., IL, to Mayor [JS],
Nauvoo
Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
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, Hancock Co., IL, 17 Jan. 1844; unidentified handwriting; signatures of petitioners; two pages; Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.

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William T. Rex
H[enry] O Norton
Dec. 1822–8 June 1896. Carpenter, miller, township officer. Born in New York. Moved to Canada as a teenager. Witness at trial concerning destruction of Nauvoo Expositor press, 17 June 1844, in Hancock Co., Illinois. Married first Lucinda O. Wells, 6 Jan. ...
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John G. Sheffield John D. Smith

George Sheffield Jas A. Eastin

Stephen Wilkinson
Ca. 1819–after 1860. Stonemason. Born in Kentucky. Lived in Missouri, by mid-1830s. Moved to Pike Co., Illinois, by 1837. Married Hannah Potts, 16 Nov. 1837, in Pike Co. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lived in Pleasant Vale, Pike...
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Samuel Fowler

Samuel Smith
13 Mar. 1808–30 July 1844. Farmer, logger, scribe, builder, tavern operator. Born at Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vermont. Son of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack. Moved to Royalton, Windsor Co., Vermont, by Mar. 1810; to Lebanon, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, 1811...
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Joseph Burn[h]am

J[ames] M. Flack
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Thomas S Edwards Jr

◊◊ Travis Amos Mcbride

W[illiam] H. Seabury

Joseph S. Murdock

John P. Murdock

Henry Payne

H. E. Sammons

Thomas Jones

John Frodsham

Richard Riley

Jas. Bridge

[illegible] nelson

Nathaniel Leavitt

Charles Leavitt

Samuel Hood

S H Abernathy

Jo George Hatch

George Fowler

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Petition from Ebenezer Jennings and Others, 17 January 1844
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Henry Norton
James A. Eastin
Stephen Wilkinson
Samuel Smith
James M. Flack