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

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

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Indictment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, ca. [10] Apr. 1839, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Arson (Boone Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839). 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 Apr. 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; six pages; document destroyed. Photocopy at State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia. Includes seal.

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State of Missouri) SS— [scilicet]
County of
Daviess

Area in northwest Missouri settled by European Americans, 1830. Sparsely inhabited until 1838. Created from Ray Co., Dec. 1836, in attempt to resolve conflicts related to Latter-day Saint settlement in that region. County is transected diagonally from northwest...

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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 of the Circuit Court within and for the County of
Daviess

Area in northwest Missouri settled by European Americans, 1830. Sparsely inhabited until 1838. Created from Ray Co., Dec. 1836, in attempt to resolve conflicts related to Latter-day Saint settlement in that region. County is transected diagonally from northwest...

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aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a True, full and Perfect Copy of the original Indictments against the Persons therein named, said original being now on file in my office—
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In Testimony whereof I 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 Thirtynine
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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