- Town/City
- Commerce (now Nauvoo)
- County
- Hancock County
- State/Province
- Illinois
- Country
- United States of America
Hotchkiss Purchase, Commerce, Illinois
Summary
One of three major land acquisitions by LDS church on Nauvoo peninsula.1 Tract consisted of four to five hundred acres and included part of Commerce and all of planned Commerce City (now Nauvoo area).2 Property purchased for $114,500, Aug. 1839.3
Links
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- Agents Report, circa 30 January 1841
- Bond to John Outhouse, 1 April 1840
- Bond to Justis Morse, 14 July 1840
- Bond to Nahum Benjamin, 1 April 1840
- Bond to Stephen Markham, 10 September 1840
- Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 9 November 1841
- Letter to Horace Hotchkiss, 10 December 1841
- Letterbook 2
- Minutes, 1–5 October 1841