Docket Entry, Continuance, 14 May 1842 [JS v. O. Cowdery]

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Docket Entry, Continuance, 14 May 1842 [JS v. O. Cowdery]
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Carthage
Located eighteen miles southeast of Nauvoo. Settled 1831. Designated Hancock Co. seat, Mar. 1833. Incorporated as town, 27 Feb. 1837. Population in 1839 about 300. Population in 1844 about 400. Site of acute opposition to Latter-day Saints, early 1840s. Site...
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, Hancock Co., IL], [14 May 1842], JS v. O. Cowdery (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); Hancock County
Chancery
The court of chancery, also known as equity, emerged in fourteenth-century England as an alternative to the common law courts, which over preceding centuries had developed complicated and strict rules of procedure, governed by precedent. Partial compliance...
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Record, vol. A, p. 392; handwriting of
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; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL.

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Joseph Smith) Compt

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Chancery
The court of chancery, also known as equity, emerged in fourteenth-century England as an alternative to the common law courts, which over preceding centuries had developed complicated and strict rules of procedure, governed by precedent. Partial compliance...
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Oliver Cowd[e]ry
3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...
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Ordered that this cause be continued [p. 392]
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