Transcript of Proceedings, , Sangamon Co., IL, ca. 17 July 1852, U.S. v. Joseph Smith III et al. (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1852); U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois, Complete Records, 1837–1856, vol. 4, pp. 486–697; handwriting of ; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21, National Archives at Chicago, Chicago.
Transcript of Proceedings, circa 17 July 1852 [ United States v. Joseph Smith III et al. ]
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Simon Gril[l], Daniel Elliott, J. WeeaBrod [Joseph Weisbrod], Benjamin P. VanCourt, Nathan Prentiss [Prentice], Luke P. Prentiss [Prentice], Mary Libel [Sibel] an infant, Christopher E. Yates, Evert L. Yates, Isaac L. [S.] Sanders, Luke Wood, Samuel M. Chapman, L[ewis] Stutts, William McLeman, Joseph Sibley, L[aurenz] Risse, A[bner] Powers, John Kaufman [John G. Kauffmann], John Winter, and Maria Winter his wife, Casamier [Casamire] Winter, an infant, , Gagne [Gacque] Martin, J. C. Hogeland, , Bernard Eking [Icking], Daniel Browne [Brown], S[iegmund] M. Walther, Julius C. Wright, George Beagle, David W. Vrooman, J. A. Chadsey, Lewis Tille [Telle], Christian Bidaman [Bidamon] and Joshua Ward.
District of Sc[ilice]t:—
The put in their place , their solicitor against said defendants in a
District of Sct;—
The said Defendants put in their place, , and Libby, their solicitors, at the suit of the complainants aforesaid.
District of ss [scilicet];—
Be it remembered that on the nineteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, came the said complainants by their and filed their certain Bill in Chancery, against the said defendants as follows, to wit;—
To the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of :
The bring this their Bill against , , and Infant children and heirs at law of Joseph Smith late of Illinois deceased, and Lewis C. Bidaman [Bidamon] her husband, and Elisha Dixon her husband, John M. Ferris administrator [p. 487]