Mss. bond of $60 payable to N.J. Daley by Loren Babbitt and Edward A. Bedell on condition of a following lawsuit.

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

Mss. Includes two requests for ejectment of individuals from land in the cases of Daniel H. Wells vs. Lodowick Ferre and Daniel H. Wells vs. William M. Powers. Wells also requests $500 in damages from each defendant.

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.

Collection includes an order for the Mayor of Nauvoo to transmit a promissory note to be used in the case of Jabez Durphy vs. Davison Hibard.

Handwritten affidavit in the suit of Hiram Kimball versus Parley P. Pratt to recover goods sold to Pratt which he, allegedly, was intending to carry West without paying for them.

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.