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Correspondence between Joseph Smith Papers editors and manuscripts curator at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL, 10 Apr. 2019, copy in editors’ possession.
Gillett Family Papers, 1736–1904. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL.
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Lyman Trumbull, Springfield, IL, to James Pitman, Quincy, IL, Dec. [1842], Secretary of State, General Correspondence, Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Illinois Governor’s Correspondence, 1816–1852. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Letter from Thomas Ford, 17 Dec. 1842; Letter from James Adams, 17 Dec. 1842; Letter from Justin Butterfield, 17 Dec. 1842; Clayton, Journal, 16–17 Dec. 1842; Petition to the United States Circuit Court for the District of Illinois, 31 Dec. 1842.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Petition to Chauncey Robison, 26 Dec. 1842; Clayton, Journal, 26–27 Dec. 1842.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
JS, Journal, 30 Dec. 1842. The party accompanying JS to Springfield included Hyrum Smith, John Taylor, William Marks, Levi Moffet, Peter Haws, Lorin Walker, Willard Richards, and Orson Hyde. Partway to Carthage, Illinois (approximately twenty miles southeast of Nauvoo, Illinois), they met up with Sherwood and Clayton. JS boarded with Adams on at least one previous stay in Springfield. (JS, Journal, 27 Dec. 1842; Historical Introduction to Letter of Introduction from James Adams, 9 Nov. 1839.)
An Act Regulating the Proceeding on Writs of Habeas Corpus [22 Jan. 1827], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois, p. 322, sec. 1.
The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois: Containing All the Laws . . . Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835; and at Their Second Session, Commencing December 7, 1835, and Ending January 18, 1836; and Those Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837; and at Their Special Session, Commencing July 10, and Ending July 22, 1837. . . . Compiled by Jonathan Young Scammon. Chicago: Stephen F. Gale, 1839.
Clayton, Journal, 31 Dec. 1842.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Ford addressed the warrant directly to the sheriff of Sangamon County, William F. Elkin. It instructed Elkin to apprehend JS and deliver him to Edward Ford, who acted as an agent for the state of Missouri and who would return JS to that state. (Arrest Warrant, 31 Dec. 1842.)
JS, Petition to Thomas Ford, 31 Dec. 1842, copy, JS Collection, CHL. On 6 January 1843, JS’s party received certified copies of documents most relevant to the case, including an affidavit from Lilburn W. Boggs, Thomas Reynolds’s requisition, the various versions of the arrest warrant, and other affidavits. (JS, Journal, 6 Jan. 1843.)
Extradition of JS for Accessory to Assault, U.S. Circuit Court for the District of IL, 5 January 1843
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Lyman Trumbull. (Scofield, History of Hancock County, 529.)
Scofield, Charles J., ed. History of Hancock County. 2 vols. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, and J. Seymour Currey. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1921.
John Bouvier’s 1839 law dictionary defined an alias writ as “a second writ of the same kind issued in the same cause.” (“Alias,” in Bouvier, Law Dictionary, 1:98.)
Bouvier, John. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union; With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Deacon and Peterson, 1854.
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