Transcript of Proceedings, 8 January 1842 [Boosinger v. O. Cowdery et al.]
Source Note
Transcript of Proceedings, [], Caldwell Co., MO, 8 Jan. 1842, Boosinger v. O. Cowdery et al. (Caldwell Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of Elliot Roberts; certified by Elliot Roberts, 8 Jan. 1842; certified by , 28 Feb. 1842; docket by Elliot Roberts, [], Caldwell Co., MO, [8 Jan. 1842]; thirteen pages; Letters Related to George Boosinger, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Includes seal.
In January 1842, presumably at ’s request, Elliot Roberts, clerk of the Circuit Court in , made certified transcripts of the proceedings in the two 1839 lawsuits. Given that the Caldwell County Courthouse and all original court records were destroyed by fire in 1860, few if any of JS’s original legal papers produced by the Caldwell County Circuit Court are extant.
This document was in ’s possession and presumably was retained by his descendants for an unknown time upon his death. In 1953, it was one of several miscellaneous Boosinger papers in the possession of M. S. MacCarthy of Glendale, California. Sometime between 1953 and 1958, the Boosinger papers were transferred from M. S. MacCarthy to Mrs. H. W. Deegan. In 1958, Deegan sold the Boosinger papers to the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri, 251–252.
History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri, Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources. . . . St. Louis: National Historical Co., 1886.
“List of Boosinger Papers relating to Early Periods in the History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,” 14 Dec. 1953, Fife Mormon Collection, 1940–1972, Folk Collection 4, no. 1, series II, vol. 16, no. 650, Special Collections and Archives, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.
“List of Boosinger Papers relating to Early Periods in the History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,” 14 Dec. 1953. Fife Mormon Collection, 1940–1972, Folk Collection 4, no. 1, series II, vol. 16, no. 650, Special Collections and Archives, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.
You cause to be made the debt— damages and costs and that you certify how you execute this writ. Witness Clerk of said Court with the seal thereof L S affixed this 19th. day of Novr 1839.
Clerk
Upon which said writ is the following return of the sheriff to wit.
I do hereby certify that I executed the within by levying on the following land of the within namd to wit. The E 1/2 of the S.W. quarter of Section 2. Township 56 Range 29. also S.W. quarter of N.E. quarter of Section 18. Township 56 Range 28. also N.E qr of N.W quarter of Section 24. Township 57. Range 29— Also N.E. quarter of South east of Section 12. Township 56 Range 29. and putting up notices for twenty days before the sale as the law requires and on the first day of the court which was on the 9th. day of this month and while the circuit court was in session put up the interest right title & claim of said to said lands and Asa D. Brasher being the highest and best bidder for said land for Forty five dollars it was struck [p. 10]