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Circuit Court legal documents

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1247
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten legal documents. The collection includes petitions, contracts, appeals, court orders, and summonses involving members of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1838-1846
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Robert D. Foster legal documents

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 620
Scope and Contents

Mss. documents includes two witness affidavits and a trial transcript all signed by Foster; and a transcript of a trial decided against Foster in the amount of $42.40.

Dates: 1843-1845
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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

The origin of Mormonism and reminiscences of the Mormons in Illinois

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 89
Scope and Contents Prepared typescript of a series of ten articles written by J.H. Sherman which appeared in the Ithaca Daily Journal during April and May, 1886. The articles, decidedly anti-Mormon, tell of Joseph Smith's early life, the Solomon Spaulding manuscript from which Smith supposedly got the idea for the Book of Mormon, the organization of the Latter-day Saint Church, the settlement of the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, death of Joseph Smith, mob violence in Illinois, expulsion of the Mormons from...
Dates: 1886
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John Taylor legal papers

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 634
Scope and Contents

Mss. The collection includes legal documents concerning cases involving John Taylor which include writs of attachment, a declaration, an affidavit, a precipe, and an exemplification of record which originated in Lake County, Ohio and was transferred to the Hancock County, Illinois Circuit Court.

Dates: 1844-1846
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Civil Procedure and Courts 3
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Illinois. Circuit Court (Hancock Co.) 3
Backenstos, Jacob B. (Jacob Benjamin), 1811-1857 2
Foster, Robert D. 2
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 2
Babbitt, Almon W. (Almon Whiting), 1813-1856 1
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
Davis, Amos, Jr., 1811-1877 1
Kimball, Hiram S., 1806-1863 1
Law and Wilson 1
Martin, David C. (David Chancellor), 1939-1992 1
Reyburn, T. (Thomas), 1819-1857 1
Sherman, J. H. 1
Smith, William, 1811-1893 1
Spaulding, Solomon, 1761-1816 1
Taylor, John, 1808-1887 1
Wells, Daniel H. (Daniel Hanmer), 1814-1891 1
Yates, Christopher E. 1
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