Case File Wrapper, circa October 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge]

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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, ca. Oct. 1844], C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); docket in handwriting of
David E. Head
27 Apr. 1818–1 May 1877. Clerk, merchant. Born in Washington Co., Kentucky. Moved to Macomb, McDonough Co., Illinois, ca. 1834. Deputy clerk of McDonough Co. Deputy clerk of Hancock Co., Illinois, circuit court, by 16 May 1843. Clerk of Hancock Co. Circuit...
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; docket and notation in unidentified handwriting; one page; McDonough County Circuit Court Files, Illinois Regional Archives Depository vault, Archives and Special Collections, Leslie F. Malpass Library, Western Illinois University, Macomb.
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See Introduction to C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge.

Document Transcript

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Charles A. Foster Sept. 1815–1904. Physician, pharmacist. Born in England, likely in Braunston, Northamptonshire. Son of John Foster and Jane Knibb. Immigrated to U.S., arriving in New York on 27 June 1831. Moved to Hancock Co., Illinois, by Feb. 1843. Publisher of Nauvoo ... View Full Bio
vs)	Trespass Viet armis “An unlawful act committed with violence, vi et armis, to the person, property or relative rights of another.” The violence may be actual or implied. “Of actual violence, an assault and battery is an instance; of implied, a peaceable but wrongful entry upon... View Glossary
Joseph Smith & Joseph W. Coolidge 31 May 1814–13 Jan. 1871. Carpenter, miller, merchant. Born in Bangor, Hancock Co., Maine. Son of John Kittridge Coolidge and Rebecca Stone Wellington. Moved to Cincinnati, by 1817. Moved to area of Mackinaw, Tazewell Co., Illinois, 1834. Married Elizabeth... View Full Bio

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Footnotes

Docket in handwriting of David E. Head.
Insertions in unidentified handwriting.
Docket and notation in unidentified handwriting.