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Hancock County (Ill.) Circuit Court legal documents
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1443
Scope and Contents
Collection contains about 750 documents relating to some 250 actions arising in justice of the peace or circuit courts in Hancock County, Illinois. Also includes a letter from David Martin concerning part of the collection and indexes to court cases involving Joseph Smith Jr. and the autographs of those who martyred Smith.
Dates:
1839-1860
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Hancock County (Ill.) deposition
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 134
Scope and Contents
Signed documents concerning a debt of $20,000 owed to Isaac Galland by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for land near Nauvoo, Illinois. Galland affirms that the successors to Joseph Smith are fleeing the jurisidiction of the Illinois courts without paying the debt.
Dates:
1846
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections