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Introduction to City of Nauvoo v. C. L. Higbee et al. Notice of Appeal, 2 May 1844 Docket Entry, 2 May–circa 3 June 1844 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Bond, 26 July 1844 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Certiorari, 26 July 1844 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Supersedeas, 26 July 1844 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Motion, circa 21 October 1844 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Docket Entry, Motion, 22 October 1844 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Motion, circa 24 October 1844–A [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Motion, circa 24 October 1844–B [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Docket Entry, Motions, 25 October 1844 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Docket Entry, Motions Overruled, 31 October 1844 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Docket Entry, Dismissal, 21 October 1845 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Docket Entry, circa 21 October 1845 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Case File Wrapper, circa October 1845 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster] Docket Entry, Fieri Facias, between 17 December 1845 and circa 17 March 1846 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster]

Docket Entry, Fieri Facias, between 17 December 1845 and circa 17 March 1846 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster]

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Docket Entry, Fieri Facias, [
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], between 17 Dec. 1845 and ca. 17 Mar. 1846, City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1845); Hancock County Circuit Court, Execution Docket, vol. C, p. [19]; 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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; notation by unidentified scribe, [
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], ca. 17 Dec. 1845; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; image in Hancock County Papers, 1830–1872, CHL.

Historical Introduction

See Introduction to City of Nauvoo v. C. L. Higbee et al.

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[No] [Parties Names] [Epitome] [Fee Book] [Page] [To whom Issued] [Officers Return]
[. . .]
1

TEXT: Other docket entries separate column headings from the City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster entry.


Fi Fa [fieri facias]

Abbreviated “fi. fa.” It is a writ of execution “that lies for him who has recovered any debt or damages. . . . It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of the party he cause to be made the sum recovered by the judgment.”

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for cost

Notation in unidentified handwriting.


Recd for collect Dec 17. 1845 at 4 P M
J[acob] B. Backenstos

8 Oct. 1811–25 Sept. 1857. Merchant, sheriff, soldier, politician, land speculator. Born at Lower Paxton, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Jacob Backenstos and Margaretha Theis. Member of Lutheran Reformed Church. Married Sarah Lavina Lee, niece of Robert...

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Shff I cannot find any property belonging to the city of
Nauvoo

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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upon which to levy this
Execution

“The act of carrying into effect the final judgment of a court, or other jurisdiction. The writ which authorises the officer so to carry into effect such judgment is also called an execution. . . . Executions are either to recover specific things, or money...

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No money made
J. B. Backenstos

8 Oct. 1811–25 Sept. 1857. Merchant, sheriff, soldier, politician, land speculator. Born at Lower Paxton, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Jacob Backenstos and Margaretha Theis. Member of Lutheran Reformed Church. Married Sarah Lavina Lee, niece of Robert...

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Shff
Nauvoo City

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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Cost $7.62½
Plff

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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s fee Bill 9.93¾
2182 vs G 594 Same [
Shff

8 Oct. 1811–25 Sept. 1857. Merchant, sheriff, soldier, politician, land speculator. Born at Lower Paxton, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Jacob Backenstos and Margaretha Theis. Member of Lutheran Reformed Church. Married Sarah Lavina Lee, niece of Robert...

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Hancock Co

Formed from Pike Co., 1825. Described in 1837 as predominantly prairie and “deficient in timber.” Early settlers came mainly from mid-Atlantic and southern states. Population in 1835 about 3,200; in 1840 about 9,900; and in 1844 at least 15,000. Carthage ...

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Jugt Octo 21. 1845
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 ...

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Fi Fa

Abbreviated “fi. fa.” It is a writ of execution “that lies for him who has recovered any debt or damages. . . . It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of the party he cause to be made the sum recovered by the judgment.”

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Issued Decr 17. 1845
Return day March 17. 1846
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Docket Entry, Fieri Facias, between 17 December 1845 and circa 17 March 1846 [City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster]
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    TEXT: Other docket entries separate column headings from the City of Nauvoo v. C. A. Foster entry.

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    Notation in unidentified handwriting.

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