Transcript of Proceedings, Treason, 6 July 1839 [Extradition of JS et al. for Treason and Other Crimes]
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Transcript of Proceedings, Treason, [], Daviess Co., MO, 6 July 1839, Extradition of JS et al. for Treason and Other Crimes (State of MO, Office of the Governor 1841); handwriting of ; certified by , 6 July 1839; docket by unidentified scribe, [], Daviess Co., MO, [6 July 1839]; fourteen pages; Joseph Smith Extradition Records, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois. Includes seal.
Be it Remembered that at a Circuit Court began and held at the House of Elisha B. Creekmore the Temporary Place of holding courts within and for the County of aforesaid on the Second Monday on April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty nine Present the Honorable Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in the State of . Clerk and William Morgan Sheriff
The Sheriff returned into Court the following Panel as a Grand Jury to wit. Robert P Peniston [Sr.] foreman, Nicholas Trosper, Benedict Weldon, John Stokes, Elijah Frost, Andrew McKay, Christopher Stone, John Edwards, Moses Netherton, senr, , Nathaniel Blakely, Jonathan Oxford, Richard Grant, Robert P. Peniston Jr, John Pinkerton, John Brown, William Cox, John Dowdy, and , all good and lawful men [2 words illegible] householders of who after being duly sworn received a charge, and retired to consider of their Presentments
The Grand Ju Jury returned into Court and presented the following Indictments to— wit— [p. [1]]