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Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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.) Circuit Court legal documents

Hancock County (Ill.) deposition

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234632]
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 / Hancock County (Ill.) deposition

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