b0136 Joseph Smith Collection, 1843-1848 A Register of the Collection at the Utah State Historical Society Utah State Historical Society 1999 Finding aid encode in EAD 1.0 by Craig Ringgenberg using XMetaL 1.0, 1999. Finding aid written in English.

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Summary Description Utah State Historical Society Mss B 136 Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844. Joseph Smith Collection, 1843-1848 0.5 lin. ft. (1 box) Copies of legal documents concerning the arrest and death of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS church. Topics: Mormons and Mormonism in Illinois. Mormons and Mormonism -- History -- Sources. Persons: Smith, Emma Hale, 1804-1879 -- Photographs. Smith family. Background Background Note

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Copies of legal documents concerning the arrest and death of Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS church.

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Joseph Smith Collection, 1843-1848, Utah State Historical Society.

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Gift of F. Mark McKiernan.

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 Container list Box Folder Contents Records 1 1 Miscellaneous Legal Documents 1 1 1 Smith, Joseph Jr., Hyrum Smith, Wm. Smith, legal document, 2 pp., 4 June 1844 1 1 2 Coolidge, Joseph W., legal document, 10 April 1848, 2 pp. (Carthage) 1 1 3 Amos Davis vs. Joseph Smith, Orson Spencer & John P. Green, 24 February 1844, 2 pp. (Carthage) 1 1 4 Smith, Mary, legal document, 22 May 1846, 2 pp. (Carthage) 1 1 5 Davis vs. Smith, 6 August 1844, 2 pp. See #3 1 1 6 Davis vs. Smith, 23 May 1844, 1 p. 1 1 7 Davis vs. Smith, 23 May 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 8 Davis vs. Smith, 19 March 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 9 Davis vs. Smith, Subpoena for R. D. Foster, C. I. Higbee, & C. A. Foster, 21 May 1844, 3 pp. (Carthage) 1 1 10 Smith, Mary, 13 August 1844, 2 pp. (Carthage) 1 1 11 Thomas Ford, subpoena, 19 May 1845, 2 pp. 1 1 12 Riley, John & Hyrum Smith, 27 December 1844, 1 p. (Nauvoo) 1 1 13 Smith, Hyrum & A. W. Babbitt, 20 November 1840, 2 pp. (Pleasant Garden, Indiana). 1 1 14 Smith, Joseph Jr., Porter Rockwell & others, 25 June 1844, 3 pp. ( Expositor) 1 1 15 Joseph Smith Estate, 30 June 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 16 Joseph Smith Estate Papers, 28 November 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 17 Babbitt, A. W., 29 August 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 18 Ferris, John M., 8 August 1848, 2 pp. 1 1 19 McKee, James, 2 September 1848, 1 p. 1 1 20 Coolidge, Joseph W., 19 September 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 21 Smith, Emma, 29 August 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 22 Richardson, W. A. & Joseph Smith estate, 9 November 1845, 2 pp. 1 1 23 Coolidge, Joseph W., 3 April 1849, 2 pp. 1 1 24 The People vs. Joseph Smith, Subpoena , 26 June 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 25 Babbitt, A. W., 8 August 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 26 Smith, Joseph Jr. 10 April 1842, 2 pp. 1 1 27 Coolidge, Joseph W., 28 July 1845, 2 pp. (Nauvoo) 1 1 28 Davis vs. Smith, 24 May 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 29 State of Illinois vs. Chancy Higbee, 28 November 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 30 Highee, Chauncy L, subpoena for Nancy Rigdon, Sarah Pratt, Emiline White & Others 3 October 1842, 2 pp. 1 1 31 Estate Papers of Emma Smith as guardian, 3 May 1847, 12 pp. 1 1 32 Smith, Emma, 5 August 1851, 2 pp. 1 1 33 Bidamon, Emma, 30 July 1851, 2 pp. 1 1 34 Smith, Joseph, 22 June 1844, 1 p. 1 1 35 Smith, Joseph, cot. 19, B44, 1 p. 1 1 36 Smith, Joseph & Emma Smith, 17 July 1844, 1 p. 1 1 37 Smith, Joseph, Bill, 14 April 1845, 2 pp. 1 1 38 Smith, Joseph, estate papers, 22 May 1845, 6 pp. 1 1 39 Long, Rosaman, Charge of Bigamy, 27 March 1843, 2 pp. 1 1 40 Long, Rosaman, 27 March 1843, 2 pp. [See # 39] 1 1 41 Long, Rosaman, 27 March 1843, 2 pp. 1 1 42 List of the murders of Joseph & Hyrum Smith, 9 June 1845, 2 pp. 1 1 43 Smith, John--infant, 18 May 1846, 3 pp. 1 1 44 Estate of Edward Lawrence, 6 May 1845, (Joseph Smith guardian), 5 pp. 1 1 45 Farmer, Franklin, 23 March 1843, 2 pp. 1 1 46 Higbee, Chauncy, 3 October 1842, 3 pp. 1 1 47 Robinson, Ebenezer, 14 September 1842, 3 pp. (Higbee) 1 1 48 Bidamon, Emma, 30 April 1848, 4 pp. 1 1 49 Higbee, C. S., 10 September 1842, 1 p. 1 1 50 Higbee, Chauncy, 24 May 1842, 2 pp. 1 1 51 Smith, David H., 3 May 1847, 3 pp. 1 1 52 Smith, Emma, 17 July 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 53 Smith, Joseph, 12 June 1847, 6 pp. 1 1 54 Davis vs. Smith, 8 May 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 55 Verdict of Jury, Joseph Smith for purgery, 23 October 1845, 4 pp. 1 1 56 People vs. Perry, 23 October 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 57 Davis vs. Smith, 23 May 1844, 3 pp. 1 1 58 Davis vs. Smith, 23 May 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 59-119 Subpoenas for the murders of Joseph Smith 1 1 120 Smith, David H., 3 May 1844, 2 pp. 1 1 121 People vs. Joseph Smith, 25 June 1844, 5 pp. 1 1 122 People vs. Joseph Smith, May term of Hancock County Court, 1844, 3 pp. 1 1 123 People vs. Smith, 27 May 1844, 3 pp. 1 2 Materials concerning Franklin A. Worrell collected at Carthage 1 3 Estate papers of Thomas C. Sharp