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Introduction to Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS Docket Entry, Allowed Claims, 14 April 1845–19 April 1849 [Coolidge Administrator of the Estate of JS and Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Affidavit, 8 August 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Administration Papers, 8 August 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Letters of Administration, 8 August 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Oath, 8 August 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Bond, 8 August 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Notice, 10 August 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Certification, circa 2 September 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claim from Edward Holbrook, 16 September 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claim from Halsted, Haines & Co., 16 September 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claim from Leavitt Neal, 27 September 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claim from Halsted, Haines & Co., 16 November 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claim from the United States, 12 December 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Inventory, 26 December 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Inventory, 4 January 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Claim Withdrawn, 5 February 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Notice, 6 February 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Wrapper, circa 23 March 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claims from Phineas Kimball, 3 April 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claims from David E. Head and Others, 3 April 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claim from Hugh Herringshaw, 17 April 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Certification, circa 18 April 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claim from Amos Davis, 19 April 1849 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Allowed Claim from Ephraim S. Green, 1 April 1850 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS]

Oath, 8 August 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS]

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John M. Ferris, Oath, before
David Greenleaf

6 May 1803–7 Apr. 1890. Dry goods merchant, county commissioner, justice of the peace, farmer, postmaster, druggist. Born in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Son of David Greenleaf and Nancy Jones. Moved to Boston, ca. 1820. Returned to Hartford, ca. ...

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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, 8 Aug. 1848, Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS (Hancock Co., IL, Probate Court 1848–1852). Copied [ca. 8 Aug. 1848]; Hancock County Probate Court, Probate Record, vol. C, p. [322]; handwriting of
David Greenleaf

6 May 1803–7 Apr. 1890. Dry goods merchant, county commissioner, justice of the peace, farmer, postmaster, druggist. Born in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Son of David Greenleaf and Nancy Jones. Moved to Boston, ca. 1820. Returned to Hartford, ca. ...

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; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL.

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Page [322]

STATE OF ILLINOIS) Sc[ilice]t:
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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I do solemn[l]y swear that I will well and truly administer all and singular the goods and
chattels

A comprehensive term that includes all kinds of tangible or intangible property, except real estate. It is normally “a more extensive term than goods or effects,” as even debtors, captives or apprentices taken in execution may be considered chattels.

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, rights credits and effects of Joseph Smith deceased, which remain to be administered upon, and pay all just claims and charges against his estate, so far as his goods, chattels and effects shall extend and the law charge me: and that I will do and perform all other acts required of me by law, to the best of my knowledge and abilities
John M. Ferris
Subscribed and sworn to before me, at my office 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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this 8th. day of August AD 1848,
D[avid] Greenleaf

6 May 1803–7 Apr. 1890. Dry goods merchant, county commissioner, justice of the peace, farmer, postmaster, druggist. Born in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Son of David Greenleaf and Nancy Jones. Moved to Boston, ca. 1820. Returned to Hartford, ca. ...

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P. J. P. [probate justice of the peace] [p. [322]]
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Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS, Hancock Co., IL, Probate Court, 1848–1852

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Oath, 8 August 1848 [Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS]
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