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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–.
Andrus and Fuller, Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 24.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
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For example, in 1839 Granger received powers of attorney from two church members, one from Aaron Johnson and another from John W. Clark, to rent out their houses and land in Kirtland. Also, William Marks provided Granger with a power of attorney to manage two Kirtland buildings he owned and receive payments for any debts owed to him. (Aaron Johnson to Oliver Granger, Power of Attorney, 15 Apr. 1839; John W. Clark to Oliver Granger, Power of Attorney, 15 Apr. 1839; William Marks to Oliver Granger, Power of Attorney, 7 May 1839, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.)
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
Benjamin Elsworth, Palermo, NY, 18 Oct. 1840, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, 15 Nov. 1840, 2:219–220; Oliver Granger, Kirtland, OH, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 6 July 1840, JS Collection (Supplement), CHL; Letter to Oliver Granger, 26 Jan. 1841; Historical Introduction to Pay Order from Oliver Granger for Samuel Clark, 5 July 1841.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Historian’s Office, Obituary Notices of Distinguished Persons, 1854–1872, 10–11; Letter from Reuben McBride, 3 Jan. 1842. In October 1841 JS appointed Reuben McBride to “take up the power of Attorney which I gave to Oliver Granger” and settle the church’s debts. (Power of Attorney to Reuben McBride, 28 Oct. 1841.)
Historian’s Office. Obituary Notices of Distinguished Persons, 1854–1872. CHL. MS 3449.
Oswego Co., NY, Deeds, 1792–1902, vol. 34, pp. 157–158, 12 Aug. 1841, microfilm 1,011,774, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Letter from Reuben McBride, 3 Jan. 1842; George A. Smith and Wilford Woodruff, “A History of This Record,” in Patriarchal Blessings, vol. 1; see also JS, Journal, 3 Mar. 1842 and 7 Feb. 1843.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.
On 2 March 1842 Richards inscribed a memorandum of promissory notes that also appears to be related to JS’s negotiations with Gilbert Granger. (Memorandum of Notes, 2 Mar. 1842, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.)
Many of these records ended up in the hands of Oliver Granger’s daughter Sarah Granger Kimball and her husband, Hiram Kimball, and remained with the descendants of Hiram Kimball’s brother Phineas Kimball before they were donated to the Church History Library. (See the full bibliographic entry for Hiram Kimball, Collection, 1830–1910, in the CHL catalog.)
| . | Warrentee Deed. | <Lot 16 B. 114> | To | 50 | ||
| " " " | Lot 18. Bk. 99 | " " | 200 | |||
| " " | Lot 18. Bk 99 | " " | ||||
| Lodi Terry [Lodawick Ferre] | " " | Lot 15. Bk 99. | " " | 75 | ||
| Alson Johnson | " " | part Lot 44. | " " | 200 | ||
| " " | " | |||||
| " " | Lot 1 2 3 & 4. Bk 111. | " " | 25 | |||
| Lot 5. Part of— | " " | 50 | ||||
| " " | Lot 16. Bk 114 | 50 | ||||
| " | 3 acres 98 rods. | 50 | ||||
| part. Lot 17 & 18. Bk 143.— | " " | 50 | ||||
| " " | 1/2 acre— | " " | 100 | |||
| $650— | ||||||
| 115 105 acres of Land in oswego. | 1500 | |||||
A warranty deed is used to convey or sell the title of land from one party to another when there is no lien or prior claim to the land. (“Warranty,” in Bouvier, Law Dictionary, 2:486–487.)
Bouvier, John. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union; With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Deacon and Peterson, 1854.
John Smith bought this Kirtland property from William Marks on 12 July 1837 for $500; in March 1838 Smith sold it to Granger for $500. (William Marks and Rosannah Robinson Marks to John Smith, Deed, Kirtland Township, Geauga Co., OH, 12 July 1837; John Smith and Clarissa Lyman Smith to Oliver Granger, Deed, Kirtland Township, Geauga Co., OH, 28 Mar. 1838, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.)
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
This is the same piece of property that John Smith later sold to Granger, as noted on the previous line.
On 22 November 1839 Aaron Johnson sold Granger land located in tract 1, lot 44 of Kirtland Township for $200. (Aaron Johnson to Oliver Granger, Deed, Kirtland Township, Geauga Co., OH, 22 Nov. 1839, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.)
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
Marks sold Granger these four Kirtland lots for a total of $2,000 on 7 August 1837. It is possible that this deed represented a transfer from one church agent to another and did not involve an exchange of money. (William Marks and Rosannah Robinson Marks to Oliver Granger, Deed, Kirtland Township, Geauga Co., OH, 7 Aug. 1837, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.)
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
According to the original deed, Granger purchased this land—located in tract 1, lot 5 in Kirtland Township—from Boynton on 17 July 1837 for $37.50. (John F. Boynton and Susannah Lowell Boynton to Oliver Granger, Deed, Kirtland Township, Geauga Co., OH, 17 July 1837, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.)
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
This is the same Kirtland property that Angell sold to Granger on 13 June 1837 for $500; Johnson had sold it to Angell less than a month earlier for $45. (Truman Angell and Polly Johnson Angell to Oliver Granger, Deed, Kirtland Township, Geauga Co., OH, 13 June 1837; John Johnson and Elsa Jacobs Johnson to Truman Angell, Deed, Kirtland Township, Geauga Co., OH, 22 May 1837, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.)
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
Marks sold this half acre of land in Kirtland Township to Granger on 28 April 1840 for $500. (William Marks to Oliver Granger, Deed, Kirtland Township, Lake Co., OH, 28 Apr. 1840, Hiram Kimball, Collection, CHL.)
Kimball, Hiram. Collection, 1830–1910. CHL.
In October 1840 Oliver Granger purchased approximately two hundred acres of land from church members in Oswego County, New York, using church-owned land in Illinois or Iowa Territory as payment. Encouraged by church leaders, these sorts of land exchanges facilitated the gathering of church members to Nauvoo, Illinois, while also providing church agents like Granger with resources to pay off some church debts. Among the lands Granger purchased in Oswego County was the 105-acre farm of Alonzo and Betsey Reed, which was in the city of Palermo. In August 1841 Granger sold that parcel of land to Gilbert Granger for $2,100, and it is likely the 105-acre property noted in the featured text. (Benjamin Elsworth, Palermo, NY, 18 Oct. 1840, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, 15 Nov. 1840, 2:219–220; Proclamation, 15 Jan. 1841; Agreement with Oliver Granger, 29 Apr. 1840; Authorization for Hyrum Smith and Isaac Galland, 15 Feb. 1841; Oliver Granger to Jonathan Harrington, Receipt, 8 July 1842, JS Office Papers, CHL; Oswego Co., NY, Deeds, 1792–1902, vol. 32, pp. 35–36, 9 Oct. 1840, microfilm 1,011,773; vol. 34, p. 157, 12 Aug. 1841, microfilm 1,011,774, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
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