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Introduction to JS v. O. Cowdery Docket Entry, Continuance, 16 October 1841 [JS v. O. Cowdery] Notice, 26 January 1842 [JS v. O. Cowdery] Docket Entry, Continuance, 14 May 1842 [JS v. O. Cowdery] Docket Entry, Continuance, 15 October 1842 [JS v. O. Cowdery] Docket Entry, Continuance, 27 May 1843 [JS v. O. Cowdery] Docket Entry, Continuance, 18 October 1843 [JS v. O. Cowdery] Docket Entry, Continuance, 20 May 1844 [JS v. O. Cowdery] Docket Entry, Dismissal, 29 October 1844 [JS v. O. Cowdery] Docket Entry, circa 29 October 1844 [JS v. O. Cowdery]

Notice, 26 January 1842 [JS v. O. Cowdery]

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Jacob Davis,

16 Sept. 1820–25 Dec. 1883. Lawyer, farmer, politician. Born near Staunton, Augusta Co., Virginia. Son of William C. Davis and Sarah (Sallie) Van Lear. Lived at Augusta Co., 1830. Moved to Warsaw, Hancock Co., Illinois, by 1838. Served as Illinois circuit...

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Notice,
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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, IL, 26 Jan. 1842, JS v. O. Cowdery (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); Warsaw Signal, 2 Feb. 1842, [3].

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STATE OF ILLINOIS,
Hancock county

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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SS. [scilicet]
Circuit Court, October Term, A. D. 1841)
Joseph Smith)
vs.) In
Chancery

The court of chancery, also known as equity, emerged in fourteenth-century England as an alternative to the common law courts, which over preceding centuries had developed complicated and strict rules of procedure, governed by precedent. Partial compliance...

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Oliver Cowd[e]ry

3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...

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Bill of
Injunction

A prohibitory writ “restraining a person from committing or doing an act . . . which appear[s] to be against equity and conscience.”

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THIS day came the complainant, by his Solicitor, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that
Oliver Cowdry

3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...

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, the above named defendant, is a non-resident of this
State

Became part of Northwest Territory of U.S., 1787. Admitted as state, 1818. Population in 1840 about 480,000. Population in 1845 about 660,000. Plentiful, inexpensive land attracted settlers from northern and southern states. Following expulsion from Missouri...

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; It is therefore, on the application of complainant’s solicitor, ordered and decreed that unless the said
Oliver Cowdry

3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...

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shall personally be and appear before the Judge of this court on or before the first day of the next term thereof to be holden at the court house in
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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, on the first Monday in the month of May, A. D. 1842, and answer the allegations and charges contained in said complainant’s bill which has been exhibited against him in the said court on the Chancery side thereof, the same will be taken against him as confessed, and the matters thereof decreed accordingly. And it is further ordered, that a copy of this order be published in some public newspaper printed in this
State

Became part of Northwest Territory of U.S., 1787. Admitted as state, 1818. Population in 1840 about 480,000. Population in 1845 about 660,000. Plentiful, inexpensive land attracted settlers from northern and southern states. Following expulsion from Missouri...

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, for four weeks successively, once at least in each week, the first insertion thereof to be made at least sixty days previous to the next term of this court, to which term this cause is continued.
J[acob] C. DAVIS

16 Sept. 1820–25 Dec. 1883. Lawyer, farmer, politician. Born near Staunton, Augusta Co., Virginia. Son of William C. Davis and Sarah (Sallie) Van Lear. Lived at Augusta Co., 1830. Moved to Warsaw, Hancock Co., Illinois, by 1838. Served as Illinois circuit...

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