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.
of the estate of the said Joseph Smith deceased, Solomon Kime [Keim], James Downing, Michael Baegel [Beagle], Mr. Shifkin, John Tillson, Sophus K. Holstein Henry Swank, C. Witsel [Charles Wetzel], N[apolean] Perry, Silas G, Strong, Isabella Hickox, and Leonard Hickox her husband, Anton Wittick, J[ohn] L. Hanna, W[illiam] Hanna, George Smith, The unknown heirs of J. Bixler deceased, Mary E[a]gan, and John M. E[a]gan her husband Michael Schmidt, and [blank] Schmidt his wife, The unknown heirs of D. Weber deceased, Abram Lozier, Jabez J. Piggott, , James Clark, Reuben H. Loomis, John Wilkie, , John C. Bidaman [Bidamon], E. Magor, , , Bryant Gilbride, John Griffiths, William Powers, John Wolfe, George Ritter, Dr. P. Reimbolt [Peter Reimbold], H[iram] Griffin, Simon Gril[l], Daniel Elliott, J. WeesBrod [Joseph Weisbrod], Benjamin P. VanCourt, Nathan Prenteis [Prentice], Luke P. Prenteis [Prentice], Mary Sibel an infant, Christopher E. Yates, Evert L. Yates, Isaac 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. Vroomans [Vrooman], J. A. Chadsey, Lewis Tille [Telle], Christian Bidaman [Bidamon] and Joshua Ward, being all citizens of the State and District of .
And thereupon your Orators complain and say that heretofore to wit at the June Term A. D. eighteen hundred and forty two, of the District Court of the United States for said State and District of holden at in said District, your orators, by the consideration and judgement of said Court, recovered against the said Joseph Smith, since deceased. , , and , the sum of four thousand eight hundred and sixty six dollars and thirty eights cents of debt, and the sum of three hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety three cents <damages together with the costs of suit taxed at the sum of forty one dollars & ninety six cents> which said debt, damages and costs were adjudged to your orators by the said Court, as by the record and proceedings thereof now on file therein and to which your orators pray leave to refer, more fully and at large appear.
Your Orators further show that the said judgement remaining unpaid and unsatisfied, your orators on or about the 18th. day of July A D 1842 sued out upon said judgement from the clerk’s office of said Court a writ of directed to the of the for said District, and commanding him of the goods, chattels, lands, tenements and real estate of the defendants in said judgement to make the amount of said debt, damages and costs as adjudged to your orators by said Court, which writ was afterwards, to wit, on the 23rd. day of June A. D. 1843 returned by said to the clerk’s office of said Court with “nulla bona” endorsed thereon by said as his return to the command of said writ. [p. 488]