Hitchcock and Wilder were partners in the Painesville, Ohio, law firm Hitchcock & Wilder. (History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio, 61.)

History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Most Prominent Men. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers, 1878.

Capias ad Respondendum, 26 July 1837 [Barker for the use of Bump v. JS and O. Cowdery]. “When a suit is brought in the name of one person for the use of another, . . . the only object of naming the assignee in the suit, is to show who controls the suit, and to whom the officer may pay over the avails of the judgment.” (Swan, Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings at Law in Ohio, 1:36.)

Swan, Joseph R. The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings at Law, in Ohio, and Precedents in Pleading, with Practical Notes; together with the Forms of Process and Clerks’ Entries. 2 vols. Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting, 1845.

Promissory Note, 7 July 1836 [Barker for the use of Bump v. JS and O. Cowdery]; Capias ad Respondendum, 26 July 1837 [Barker for the use of Bump v. JS and O. Cowdery]. This writ commands the officer to arrest the defendant and bring him before the court to answer the plaintiff’s charges. (“Capias ad Respondendum,” in Bouvier, Law Dictionary, 1:152; An Act Concerning Mesne Process in Civil and Criminal Cases [10 Feb. 1831], Statutes of Ohio, vol. 3, p. 1718, sec. 1.)

Bouvier, John. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union; with References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law. 2 vols. Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson, 1839.

Statutes of the State of Ohio, of a General Nature, in Force, December 7, 1840; Also, the Statutes of a General Nature, Passed by the General Assembly at Their Thirty-Ninth Session, Commencing December 7, 1840. Columbus, OH: Samuel Medary, 1841.

Transcript of Proceedings, ca. 24 Oct. 1837 [Barker for the use of Bump v. JS and O. Cowdery]. JS was accompanied by Sidney Rigdon, Brigham Young, and Thomas B. Marsh. They were stopped en route at Painesville, where JS was detained “all day by malicious and vexatious Law suits.” He and Rigdon were taken into custody in relation to Seymour & Griffith v. Rigdon and JS, and JS was also arrested in connection with the Barker suit. According to Young, JS was arrested six times that day. (JS History, vol. B-1, 767, addenda, 6nS; Minutes, 3 September 1837; Introduction to Seymour & Griffith v. Rigdon and JS; “History of Brigham Young,” Deseret News, 10 Feb. 1858, 386.)

Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.

Transcript of Proceedings, ca. 24 Oct. 1837 [Barker for the use of Bump v. JS and O. Cowdery].

Transcript of Proceedings, ca. 24 Oct. 1837 [Barker for the use of Bump v. JS and O. Cowdery].