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Promissory Note to Chauncey Robison, 22 October 1842–A
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, agent, on behalf of JS, Promissory Note, , Hancock Co., IL, to , 22 Oct. 1842; handwriting of ; signature of JS in the handwriting of ; two pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes notations.
Single leaf, measuring 3½ × 7⅞ inches (9 × 20 cm), with eleven horizontal lines printed in blue ink. The top, bottom, and left sides of the recto were cut or torn from a larger sheet of paper. A second promissory note to dated 22 October 1842 was written on the larger sheet beneath this note; the two notes were likely torn apart after being signed. At some point, the document was trifolded and then folded in half widthwise. The note contains notations made in black ink and graphite.
After signed the note, likely retained it until 14 August 1846, when the bond accompanying this note was canceled. The note was then returned to the trustees-in-trust for the church, who presumably retained it among their financial papers. By 1973 the document had been included in the JS Collection at the Church Historical Department (now CHL).
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See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Bond from Chauncey Robison, 22 Oct. 1842.
Recd. Novr. 28— 1843 on the within note one hundred and fifty dollars
$150.—
By Amount Paid R[euben] H. Walworth as per his Letters, draft dated 6 Feby 1844 on Brown Brothers & Co five hundred Dollars
1 Nov 1844
Recd on the within one hundred Dollars
Due 3 ◊◊
14 Dec 1844
Received on the within two hundred & three Dollars
14 Dcc [December] 1844
4th Augt 1845
Received on the within $ one hundred & two Dollars 14 cts in full
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Footnotes
Notation in the handwriting of William Clayton.
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Clayton also noted in his journal on 28 November that he had paid Robison $150. (Clayton, Journal, 28 Nov. 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Notations in the handwriting of Chauncey Robison.
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Walworth was a lawyer and politician from Syracuse, New York. Robison apparently requested that the church pay off Robison’s debt to Walworth instead of paying Robison directly. (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 2113; Newel K. Whitney and George Miller, Nauvoo, IL, to Parley P. Pratt, 9 July 1845, Copybook, pp. 9–10, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL.)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005, the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005, inclusive. Edited by Andrew R. Dodge and Betty K. Koed. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
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Brown Brothers & Co., a major merchant and investment bank in New York City, appears to have conducted significant business in western states. (See Brown, Hundred Years of Merchant Banking, chaps. 11–12.)
Brown, John Crosby. A Hundred Years of Merchant Banking: A History of Brown Brothers and Company, Brown, Shipley, and Company, and the Allied Firms. New York: By the author, 1909.
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TEXT: “Due” is possibly “Dr.”, an abbreviation for debit.
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TEXT: Notation in graphite. The 14 December 1844 entry was written over the canceled entry.