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Missouri -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs executive orders

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315407]
Identifier: MSS SC 1790
Scope and Contents

Photographic prints and photocopies of Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs' 1838 "extermination order" of the Mormons, Governor Christopher Bond's executive order rescinding it, and a newsclipping describing the rescission.

Dates: 1838-1976

Lilburn W. Boggs papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233292090]
Identifier: Vault MSS 533
Scope and Contents

Two signed items, one a promissory note made out to William Smith, agent for the Steam Mill Company, dated August 20, 1817. The other a transfer of title dated June 18, 1820, turning over ownership of two lots in Independence, Missouri, to Joseph Philipson.

Dates: 1817-1820

Lillburn W. Boggs letters received

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325661]
Identifier: MSS SC 2698
Scope and Contents Photographs of a handwritten and signed letters addressed to Lilburn W. Boggs and dated 22 and 24 July 1840. One of the items is from Chauncey Durkus denying reports that he has been involved in arresting Mormons in Illinois and taking them back to Missouri. The veracity of his statements was confirmed by the signatures of 37 residents of Lewis County, Missouri. The other item was signed by 11 residents of Lewis County claiming that persons; who went to Nauvoo, Illinois, to recover stolen...
Dates: 1840 July 24; 1840 July 22

Finis Ewing collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232550563]
Identifier: MSS 1396
Abstract

Correspondence, certificates, and legal papers dealing with Ewing's personal and business life in Missouri. Some of the correspondence is from Thomas Hart Benton, Henry Clay, and Lilburn W. Boggs. The items relate to contemporary political issues both in Missouri and in the United States.

Dates: 1824-1841

George Miller letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230307925]
Identifier: MSS SC 977
Scope and Contents

Letter to Thomas Reynolds, Governor of Missouri, dated 4 Sept. 1842. The missive is in defense of Joseph Smith (1801-1844) in any implication in the assassination attempt on Governor Lilburn Boggs of Missouri.

Dates: 1842 September 4

Mormon War papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS FM 7
Scope and Contents

Microfilmed copies of original joint legislative committee journals (1838-1839), legislative proceedings (1838-1841), correspondence and orders (1838-1839), evidence given at the court of inquiry held in November 1838 to investigate Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and others for high treason, and certificates dealing with indictments against Mormons (1841) pertaining to the Mormon disturbances in Missouri (1838-1841). The film is 16 mm. and 35 mm. and is photonegative.

Dates: 1838-1841