Footnotes
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Though this letter and others from Horace Hotchkiss to JS, as well as from Hotchkiss to his business partners, are addressed from or have postal markings from Fair Haven, Connecticut, Hotchkiss gave his legal place of residence as nearby New Haven. (Bonds from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839–A and B.)
On 12 August 1839 Rigdon, JS, and Hyrum Smith agreed to purchase approximately four hundred acres of land in the Commerce, Illinois, area from Hotchkiss, Tuttle, and Gillet. The payment terms were $50,000 in principal, due twenty years from the date of the transaction, and forty separate interest installments of $1,500 each. Two of these interest payments were due each year, beginning on 12 August 1840, with one payment to be made to Hotchkiss and the other to Tuttle and Gillet. By the time Hotchkiss issued this receipt, $6,000 (representing interest payments for the first two years) was due, a little over half of which was to be credited from the land Ivins was transferring to Hotchkiss. (Bond from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839–A; Promissory Note to Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839; Promissory Note to John Gillet and Smith Tuttle, 12 Aug. 1839; see also the first two 12 August 1839 promissory notes from Sidney Rigdon, JS, and Hyrum Smith to John Gillet and Smith Tuttle, and the first two 12 August 1839 promissory notes to Horace Hotchkiss, all in JS Collection, CHL.)
Signature of Horace Hotchkiss.
Signatures of Smith Tuttle and John Gillet in the handwriting of Smith Tuttle.
Signature of Lawrence Chamberlain, who was presumably a justice of the peace or a county recorder.