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Politics, Government, and Law

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

William Adams Hickman petition

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310747]
Identifier: MSS SC 1288
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed petition. This petition is a "writ of prohibition" of John M. Wallace to the Honorable Charles E. Sinclair, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah, by Wallace's attorney, William A. Hickman. The item claims that Justic of the Peace, Jeter Clinton, collected illicit fines from a Utah "gambling house."

Dates: 1859

Legal documents from Adams County, Illinois

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236363]
Identifier: MSS SC 238
Scope and Contents

Affidavit, a summons and a bond relating to a case in which William A. Hickman threatened Leonard H. Grow with bodily harm.

Dates: 1844

Brigham Young letter

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233289823]
Identifier: Vault MSS 407
Scope and Contents

Handwritten copy of and handwritten and signed letter, dated 29 April 1854, and addressed to Elias Nelson Conwary, governor of Arkansas. Young mentions the inability of the Utah marshals to apprehend four fugitives from Arkansas. The item is also signed by Joseph Leland Heywood, United States Marshal, and William Adams Hickman, United States Deputy Marshal.

Dates: 1854