Greene, John P. (John Portineus), 1793-1844
Person
biographical statement
Citation:
Joseph Smith Papers, via WWW, April 23, 2014 (born on September 3, 1793, in Herkimer, New York; John Coddington Greene and Anna Chapman; married Rhoda Young in 1813 and they had six children together; raised as a Methodist and eventually founded the Methodist Protestant Church; April 1832, while living in Mendon, New York, he chose to be baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; organized a branch of the Church in Warsaw, New York; served missions throughout the eastern United States from 1835 to 1836 and one in Canada in 1837; 1838, he moved to Missouri, joined the Caldwell Co. militia, and fought in the Battle of Crooked River; moved to Nauvoo, Illinois; served another mission to Ohio, Pennsylvannia, and New York; 1841, he married Mary Eliza Nelson in Nauvoo, Illinois, and they had one child; member of the Nauvoo Masonic Lodge and the Nauvoo Legion; December 1843, he was elected as Nauvoo's city marshall; carried out Joseph Smith's orders to suppress the Nauvoo Expositor press on June 10, 1844; died in Nauvoo on September 10, 1844)Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Circuit court summons
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233647392]
Identifier: MSS 8405
Scope and Contents
Original court summons issued by the State of Illinois, Hancock County to Joseph Smith Jr. and John P. Greene to appear at the Hancock County Circuit Court before May 1844 in order to address the complaint of Orsemus F. Bostwick for trespass to damage in the amount of two hundred dollars. The summons was signed by J. B. Backenstos, clerk of the circuit court. Dated March 4, 1844.
Dates:
1844 March 4
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