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Inventory of Property, circa 14–16 April 1842

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JS, “Inventory of Property,” [, Hancock Co., IL, ca. 14–16 Apr. 1842]. Featured version copied [ca. 3–5 Aug. 1844] in Illinois District Court, , Sangamon Co., IL, to [on behalf of ], , Hancock Co., IL, 7 Aug. 1844; handwriting of Stanislaus Lalumière; three pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes address, postal stamp, postal notation, and endorsement.
Bifolium measuring 12½ × 8 inches (32 × 20 cm). The paper is ruled with thirty-three blue horizontal lines. The papermaker’s embossment in the upper left corner of the recto of each leaf reads “P.S&Co.”. The text on the verso of the first page is upside down in relation to the text on the rectos. The bifolium was trifolded twice in letter style, addressed, sealed with adhesive wafers, and postmarked. When the document was opened, two wafers tore two holes on the bifolium’s central fold; wafer residue appears on both sides of the second leaf. The address is erroneously directed to “John W. Woods.”
The letter contains a graphite endorsement (“Recd Aug 14th 1844”) in the handwriting of , who served as JS’s scribe from December 1841 until JS’s death in June 1844 and served as church historian from December 1842 until his own death in March 1854. Wilford C. Wood purchased this inventory and other materials from Charles E. Bidamon, ’s stepson, on 10 July 1937. Within a few weeks of the purchase from Bidamon, Wood sold the document to the church. By 1973 the document had been included in the JS Collection at the Church Historical Department (now CHL).

Footnotes

  1. [1]

    JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].

    Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.

  2. [2]

    Charles E. Bidamon, Statement of Sale, 10 July 1937, microfilm, reel 16; Wilford C. Wood, Statement, 10 July 1937, microfilm, reel 16; David O. McKay to Arthur Winter, 21 July 1937, microfilm, reel 16, Wilford C. Wood Collection of Church Historical Materials, CHL; “Documents Obtained by Wilford Wood,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 21 July 1937, 13.

    Wilford C. Wood Collection of Church Historical Materials. Microfilm. CHL. MS 8617.

    Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.

  3. [3]

    See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Schedule of Creditors, ca. 14–16 Apr. 1842.

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Inventory of Property.
 
Account against , for money had and received, by him, and for his scrip payable, in lands in , Iowa Territory, or town lots in on demand, and which have been demanded by me and refused, leaving my demand on him for money $778.00.
Eighty Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Eight Dollars.——
Account against on notes in my hands against him amounting to about $6653.00.
Account money had & received by him for my use and laid out & expended by me for him about. 5,500.00
One Common Wooden Clock— 2 dining tables
1 Candle Stand 3. Bedsteads.
1 note drawn by C[harles] B. & M[arvin] B. Street, payable at the Bank of Missouri, at , to Joseph Smith, , and which said note is assigned over to and now in Possession of said Bank amounting to the same sum & collateral security for the payment of Said note drawn by Joseph Smith, , & payable to the for $4866.38.
1 note drawn by C. B. & M. B. Street for $3000. payable to Joseph Smith, , , and & , now in the hands of in said City of . on which said note there is a balance due jointly to said Payees of about. $2000.00
2 tables dining, 1 set of kitchen chairs, 1 high post and two trundle bedsteads, 3 feather beds & 3 straw beds, 8 coverlids, 8 sheets, 6 bed quilts [p. [1]]
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Editorial Title
Inventory of Property, circa 14–16 April 1842
ID #
1455
Total Pages
4
Print Volume Location
JSP, D9:360–372
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  • Stanislaus Lalumiére

Footnotes

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    It is unclear why this amount was written on this line and only $778 on the line above. It is also unclear which amount is correct and how the correct figure was derived. In April 1839 church leaders purchased approximately forty-seven acres on the south end of the peninsula that would become Nauvoo for $18,000. They also purchased from Galland almost eighteen thousand acres of land directly across the Mississippi River, in Lee County, Iowa Territory, in May and June 1839 for nearly $50,000. (Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. 12-G, p. 247, 30 Apr. 1839, microfilm 954,195, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Lee Co., IA, Land Records, 1836–1961, Deeds [South, Keokuk], vol. 1, pp. 507–509, microfilm 959,238; vol. 2, pp. 3–6, 13–16, microfilm 959,239, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; see also Cook, “Isaac Galland,” 270–275.)

    U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

    Cook, Lyndon W. “Isaac Galland—Mormon Benefactor.” BYU Studies 19 (Spring 1979): 261–284.

  2. [2]

    See Account with Estate of Oliver Granger, between ca. 3 Feb. and ca. 2 Mar. 1842.

  3. [3]

    In September 1840 Captain Robert E. Lee sold the steamboat Des Moines to Haws—with JS, Hyrum Smith, Henry Miller, and George Miller acting as sureties—for $4,866.38. JS listed that debt to the United States government in his schedule of creditors. At the same time, Lee received another note in the same amount from Charles Street and Marvin Street—payable to Haws, George Miller, and the Smith brothers—as collateral security for the steamboat payment. (Oaks and Bentley, “Joseph Smith and Legal Process,” 739.)

    Oaks, Dallin H., and Joseph I. Bentley. “Joseph Smith and Legal Process: In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo.” Brigham Young University Law Review, no. 3 (1976): 735–782.

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