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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]

Order of Commitment, 11 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson]

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Order of Commitment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, [11 Apr. 1839], State of MO v. Baldwin et al. for Arson (Daviess Co., MO, Circuit Court 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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, 11 Apr. 1839; certified by William Morgan,
Daviess Co.

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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, MO, 6 July 1839; docket and notation 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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, [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO], [11 Apr. 1839]; four pages; Historical Department, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL. Includes seal.

Historical Introduction

See Introduction to State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson.

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Certification in handwriting of William Morgan.


this is to cirtify that I executed the within order by takng the bodys of
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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Lyman Wight

9 May 1796–31 Mar. 1858. Farmer. Born at Fairfield, Herkimer Co., New York. Son of Levi Wight Jr. and Sarah Corbin. Served in War of 1812. Married Harriet Benton, 5 Jan. 1823, at Henrietta, Monroe Co., New York. Moved to Warrensville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, ...

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Joseph Smith Jr and
Hiram [Hyrum] Smith

9 Feb. 1800–27 June 1844. Farmer, cooper. Born at Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vermont. Son of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack. Moved to Randolph, Orange Co., 1802; back to Tunbridge, before May 1803; to Royalton, Windsor Co., Vermont, 1804; to Sharon, Windsor Co...

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and
Alexander McRay [McRae]

7 Sept. 1807–20 June 1891. Tailor, sheriff, prison warden. Born in Anson Co., North Carolina. Son of John B. McRae and Mary. Moved to South Carolina; to Iredell Co., North Carolina; and back to South Carolina. Enlisted in U.S. Army, Mar. 1829, and served ...

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in to my custoday and that I Sumoned a gard of four four men to wit
William Bowman

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Wilson McKinney [McKinny]
John Brassfield

Ca. 1812–after 29 June 1880. Farmer. Born in Tennessee. Married Mahala Johnston, Jan. 1834, in Ray Co., Missouri. Appointed guard to assist Sheriff William Morgan transport Latter-day Saint prisoners from Daviess Co., Missouri, to Boone Co., Missouri; helped...

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and John Pope to asist me in taking the Said Smith
Wight

9 May 1796–31 Mar. 1858. Farmer. Born at Fairfield, Herkimer Co., New York. Son of Levi Wight Jr. and Sarah Corbin. Served in War of 1812. Married Harriet Benton, 5 Jan. 1823, at Henrietta, Monroe Co., New York. Moved to Warrensville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, ...

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and others from E B Creekmores in 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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to the town of Columbia in the County of
Boon

Located in north-central part of Missouri. First settled, 1812–1813. Organized from Howard Co., 1820. Columbia established as county seat, 1821. Population in 1830 about 9,000; in 1840 about 13,500; and in 1850 about 15,000. While imprisoned and awaiting ...

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State of
Missouri

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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as commanded by Said order and that on the way from <​said​> E B Creekmores in 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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to the town of Columbia aforesaid on the 16th day of april 1839 the Smith
Wight

9 May 1796–31 Mar. 1858. Farmer. Born at Fairfield, Herkimer Co., New York. Son of Levi Wight Jr. and Sarah Corbin. Served in War of 1812. Married Harriet Benton, 5 Jan. 1823, at Henrietta, Monroe Co., New York. Moved to Warrensville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, ...

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and others made their escape without the convience [connivance] concent or negligance of myself or gard
July 6th 1839
William Morgan Shereff of
Daviess County

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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