Declaration, circa 8 May 1844 [Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law]
Source Note
on behalf of assignee of JS, Declaration, , IL, ca. [8] May 1844, Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1843); handwriting of ; docket and notation by with signature of , [, Hancock Co., IL], 9 May 1844; four pages; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; microfilm 1,637,612 at FHL.
This document was presumably filed at the Hancock County Circuit Court in , Illinois, in 1844. Sometime in the ensuing decades, it was removed from the custody of the court. In 1976, the Church Historical Department (now CHL) acquired the document from Sam Weller’s Zion Book Store, a store operated by Sam and Lila Weller in Salt Lake City. In 1986, the Church Historical Department returned this and many other legal documents to the Hancock County Circuit Court. In 1989, the Genealogical Society of Utah (now FHL) microfilmed the document at the Hancock County courthouse.
See folder for Declaration, ca. 8 May 1844, in Hancock County, IL, Probate and Court Records, ca. 1850–1963, item 3, Miscellaneous Court Records, ca. 1827–1839, microfilm 1,637,612,U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Acquisition Sheet and Instrument of Gift, 31 Aug. 1976, 76–327, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL.
Hancock County, IL, Probate and Court Records, ca. 1850–1963, item 3, Miscellaneous Court Records, ca. 1827–1839, microfilm 1,637,612, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
Specified according to the tenor and Effect of said notes, by means of which premises and by force of the Statute in such cases made and provided the Said then and there became Liable to pay to the said Joseph Smith the Said Sum of Money in the Said notes specified according to the tenor and Effect of the Said notes— Which Promissory notes above Specified were regularly assigned <by the said Joseph Smith> to on the first Day of Janua[r]y A.D. 1843 for value received, by virtue of which assignment the said became the Bearer of and Legally Entitled to the said Promissory notes— and by means of which Premises and by force of the Statute in such cases made and Provided the Said became Liable to pay to the Said the Said Sum of money in the Said notes Specified according to the tenor and Effect of the Said notes— And for that whereas heretofore Towit on the 24th Day of January A.D. 1842 at Towit in Said County the Said made his two Certain Promissory notes in writing of that date and thereby by one of said Promissory notes promised to Pay Joseph Smith or Bearer Two Hundred Dollars on or Before the 24th Day of January A.D. 1844 with interest at six per cent per annum for value Recd— And by the other Promissory note Promised to Pay Joseph Smith or Bearer on or before the 24th Day of January A.D. 1843 Two [p. [2]]