Receipt from Horace Hotchkiss and Others, 28 February 1842
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Source Note
, , and , Receipt, , New Haven Co., CT, to [agent], [on behalf of JS], 28 Feb. 1842; handwriting of ; signatures of and and signature of by ; acknowledged by Lawrence Chamberlain; one page; JS Collection, CHL. Includes docket.Single leaf measuring 8½ × 8¾ inches (22 × 22 cm). The receipt was inscribed on one side of the paper; the verso is blank. The receipt was folded in different ways at various times.The document was docketed in graphite by an unidentified scribe: “Recpt from | Hotchkiss | for property for J◊◊◊ Ivin.” By 1973 the document had been included in the JS Collection at the Church Historical Department (now CHL). The document’s docket and inclusion in the JS Collection by 1973 suggest continuous institutional custody.
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See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
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Historical Introduction
On 28 February 1842 signed a receipt for land received from . In late September or early October 1841, Hotchkiss met with Ivins in , at which time Ivins, acting as an for the , offered to sell Hotchkiss 140 acres of timbered land and the “ belonging to the Church,” properties located in , New Jersey. Hotchkiss wrote to JS on 11 October offering $3,000 for the property, provided that the purchase amount be applied to $6,000 in interest the church then owed Hotchkiss and his business partners, and , for selling the church a large tract of land in the , Illinois, area in August 1839. JS counteroffered to sell the land for $3,200, and Hotchkiss accepted in a letter dated 30 December 1841. Hotchkiss wrote to JS again on 7 February 1842, reiterating his desire to purchase the land and requesting that JS prompt Ivins to complete the transaction as quickly as possible. JS did not receive Hotchkiss’s letter until early March, by which time the sale had already taken place.
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Though this letter and others from Horace Hotchkiss to JS, as well as from Hotchkiss to his business partners, are addressed from or have postal markings from Fair Haven, Connecticut, Hotchkiss gave his legal place of residence as nearby New Haven. (Bonds from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839–A and B.)
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On 12 August 1839 Rigdon, JS, and Hyrum Smith agreed to purchase approximately four hundred acres of land in the Commerce, Illinois, area from Hotchkiss, Tuttle, and Gillet. The payment terms were $50,000 in principal, due twenty years from the date of the transaction, and forty separate interest installments of $1,500 each. Two of these interest payments were due each year, beginning on 12 August 1840, with one payment to be made to Hotchkiss and the other to Tuttle and Gillet. By the time Hotchkiss issued this receipt, $6,000 (representing interest payments for the first two years) was due, a little over half of which was to be credited from the land Ivins was transferring to Hotchkiss. (Bond from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839–A; Promissory Note to Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839; Promissory Note to John Gillet and Smith Tuttle, 12 Aug. 1839; see also the first two 12 August 1839 promissory notes from Sidney Rigdon, JS, and Hyrum Smith to John Gillet and Smith Tuttle, and the first two 12 August 1839 promissory notes to Horace Hotchkiss, all in JS Collection, CHL.)
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Signature of Horace Hotchkiss.
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Signatures of Smith Tuttle and John Gillet in the handwriting of Smith Tuttle.
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Signature of Lawrence Chamberlain, who was presumably a justice of the peace or a county recorder.
