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Recognizance, 24 May 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee]
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and , Recognizance, [], Hancock Co., IL, to the people of , 24 May 1842, State of IL v. Higbee (Hancock Co., IL, Justice of the Peace Court 1842); handwriting of ; signatures of and ; certified by , 24 May 1842; docket by , [, Hancock Co., IL, 24 May 1842]; notation by , [, Hancock Co., IL], 14 Sept. 1842; two pages; Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860, BYU. Includes seals.
This document was filed at the , Illinois, circuit court in 1842. It remained in the custody of the circuit court until at least 1968, when Richard and Pamela Price made a photocopy of it. A portion of the case documents and several other Hancock County records had been acquired by Pearl Gordon Vestal, a local historian from Hamilton, Illinois, by 1958. After her death, her family sold them to manuscript collector David C. Martin in 1973. In 1975, Martin sold the court records to the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Later that year, library staff merged the Martin acquisition with two distinct document accretions from manuscript collectors Steven Barnett and Peter Crawley.
Footnotes
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Price and Price, Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy, 1:144–145, 158–159; David C. Martin, Nauvoo, IL, to Chad Flake, Provo, UT, 8 Aug. 1973, in Case File for Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860, BYU.
Price, Richard, and Pamela Price. Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy: Volume 1. Independence, MO: Price Pub. Co., 2000.
Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860. Twentieth-Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts. BYU.
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Approximately eleven different collections were subsequently added to the collection in 1980. (Bibliographic entry for Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860, BYU; Willard C. Smith, “Hancock County, Illinois Legal Documents,” 1980, in Case File for Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860, BYU.)
Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860. Twentieth-Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts. BYU.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
| State of Illinois) | ss. [scilicet] |
| County of ) |
Be it remembered, that on the Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty Two and personally appeared before me, , one of the justices of the peace in and for the aforesaid, and jointly and severally acknowledged themselves to owe the people of the State of the sum of Two Hundred Dollars, to be levied of their goods and chattels, lands and tenemants, if default Be made in the condition following, to wit:
The condition of this recognizance is such, that if the above bound shall personally be and appear before the circuit court on the first day of the term thereof next to be holden in and for the aforesaid; then and there to answer the a charge of slander and defamation against the character of Joseph Smith And abide the judgment of the Court, and not depart without leave; then this recognizance shall be void: otherwise, it shall be and remain in full force and virtue in law.
L.S.
L.S.
Taken and acknowledged before me, on the day and year first above written.
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Signatures of Chauncey L. Higbee and Francis M. Higbee.
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TEXT: Instances of “L.S.” (locus sigilli, Latin for “location of the seal”) are enclosed in hand-drawn representations of seals.