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Introduction to State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson Indictment, circa 10 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Indictment, 11 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Removal Orders, 11 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Order of Commitment, 11 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Continuance, 14 August 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Nolle Prosequi, 10 December 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Costs, 15 April 1840 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Costs, 17 December 1840 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Indictment, circa 10 April 1839, Copy [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Indictment, 11 April 1839, Copy [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Removal Orders, 11 April 1839, Copy [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Continuance, 17 August 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Continuance, 4 November 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson] Docket Entry, Nolle Prosequi, 5 August 1840 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson]

Indictment, circa 10 April 1839, Copy [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson]

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Indictment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, [ca. 10 Apr. 1839], State of MO v. Baldwin et al. for Arson (Boone Co., MO, Circuit Court 1840). Copied 20 Apr. 1839; handwriting of
Robert Wilson

Nov. 1800–10 May 1870. Politician, Lawyer, Farmer. Born near Staunton, Augusta Co., Virginia. Moved to Franklin, Howard Co., Missouri Territory, by 1820. Married Margaret (Peggie) Snoddy, 18 May 1826. Served as clerk of circuit and county courts in Randolph...

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; certified by
Robert Wilson

Nov. 1800–10 May 1870. Politician, Lawyer, Farmer. Born near Staunton, Augusta Co., Virginia. Moved to Franklin, Howard Co., Missouri Territory, by 1820. Married Margaret (Peggie) Snoddy, 18 May 1826. Served as clerk of circuit and county courts in Randolph...

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, 20 Apr. 1839; docket and notations by
James A. Clark

22 Feb. 1805–12 Dec. 1882. Lawyer, judge. Born in Estill Co., Kentucky. Son of Bennet Clark and Martha. Moved to Howard Co., Missouri, 1817. Trained as a lawyer under Peyton R. Hayden, 1825–1827; passed Missouri bar, 1827. Active in local politics, 1828. ...

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, [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO], [ca. 10 April 1839]; notation by
Roger N. Todd

5 Sept. 1797–11 Apr. 1846. Circuit court clerk. Born in Lexington, Fayette Co., Kentucky. Son of Levi Todd and Jane Briggs. Married Matilda Ferguson, ca. 30 Aug. 1819, in Fayette Co. Moved to Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri, by 1822. Uncle of Mary Todd Lincoln...

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, [Columbia, Boone Co., MO], 12 July 1839; two pages; document destroyed. Photocopy at State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia. Includes seal.

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See Introduction to State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Indictment, circa 10 April 1839 [ State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson ] Indictment, circa 10 April 1839, Copy [ State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson ]

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have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal there being no official seal provided. At office the Twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty nine—
[seal]
Robert Wilson

Nov. 1800–10 May 1870. Politician, Lawyer, Farmer. Born near Staunton, Augusta Co., Virginia. Moved to Franklin, Howard Co., Missouri Territory, by 1820. Married Margaret (Peggie) Snoddy, 18 May 1826. Served as clerk of circuit and county courts in Randolph...

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Clerk
 

Docket and notations in handwriting of Robert Wilson.


State

Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Latter-day Saint ...

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vs) Arson
Caleb Baldwin

2 Sept. 1791–11 June 1849. Born in Nobletown (later Hillsdale), Orange Co., New York. Son of Philemon Baldwin and Esther. Served in War of 1812 in Ohio militia. Married Nancy Kingsbury, 7 Dec. 1814, in Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. Moved to Warrensville (later in University...

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and others
 
A
True Bill

“These words are endorsed on a bill of indictment when a grand jury, after having heard the witnesses for the government, are of opinion there is sufficient cause to put the defendant on his trial.”

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Robert. P. Peniston [Sr.] Foreman of the Grand Jury
 
witness
Sampson Avard

23 Oct. 1800–15 Apr. 1869. Physician. Born at St. Peter, Isle of Guernsey, Channel Islands, Great Britain. Migrated to U.S., by 1830. Married Eliza, a native of Virginia. Located at Washington DC, 1830. Moved to Virginia, by 1831. Moved to Freedom, Beaver...

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Notation in handwriting of Roger N. Todd.


Filed July 12th 1839
R[oger] N Todd

5 Sept. 1797–11 Apr. 1846. Circuit court clerk. Born in Lexington, Fayette Co., Kentucky. Son of Levi Todd and Jane Briggs. Married Matilda Ferguson, ca. 30 Aug. 1819, in Fayette Co. Moved to Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri, by 1822. Uncle of Mary Todd Lincoln...

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Indictment, circa 10 April 1839, Copy [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson]
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    Docket and notations in handwriting of Robert Wilson.

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    Notation in handwriting of Roger N. Todd.

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