Petition, 10 January 1839 [Boosinger v. O. Cowdery et al.]
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Source Note
on behalf of , Petition, , MO, [10 Jan.] 1839, Boosinger v. O. Cowdery et al. (Caldwell Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839). Copied 8 Jan. 1842 in Transcript of Proceedings, 1–2, 11–12; handwriting of Elliot Roberts; certified by Elliot Roberts, 8 Jan. 1842; certified by , 28 Feb. 1842; Letters Related to George Boosinger, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Includes seal.
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Document Transcript
In the Circuit Court April Term 1839
vs
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Joseph Smith Jun and)
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To the Circuit Court Plaintiff states that he is the legal owner of a note against the defendants , Joseph Smith Jun and to the following effect
$200.
Tallmage Ohio May 26. 1836
For value received we promise to pay or bear[er] two hundred dollars two years from date with with six per cent interest after six months
Joseph Smith Jr
[p. 1]
Yet the debt remains unpaid therefore he demands judgment for his debt and damages for the detention thereof together with costs
Atty to
A[sa] D Brasher, ageant for [p. 2]
| State of Missouri) | ss. [scilicet] |
| County of ) |
I Elliot Roberts Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the county of and — aforesaid do certify that the foregoing Eleven pages of which this constitutes one do contain a full, true, and complete transcript of the record and proceedings had and taken in a certain action of debt lately determined in our said court between the parties therein named as fully as the sam[e] remains of record in my office.
[seal]
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at office this the 8th. day of January 1842.
Elliot Roberts Clerk [p. 11]
I sole Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit of the state of composed of the counties of , , , and Carroll do certify that Elliott Roberts whose name and attestation is affixed to the foregoing certificate was at the time of making the <same> Clerk of the Caldwel[l] Circuit Court (it being a court of Record) duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that his said certificate is in due form of law. Given under my hand the 28th day of february 1842
[p. 12]
Footnotes
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Certification in handwriting of Austin A. King.
