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Introduction to Extradition of JS for Treason Indictment, circa 5 June 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Docket Entry, Indictment, 6 June 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Power of Attorney, 13 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–A [Extradition of JS for Treason] Power of Attorney, 13 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–B [Extradition of JS for Treason] Warrant, 17 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–A [Extradition of JS for Treason] Warrant, 17 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–B [Extradition of JS for Treason] Account, circa 23–circa 30 June 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Petition to Nauvoo Municipal Court, 30 June 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Habeas Corpus, 30 June 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Habeas Corpus, 30 June 1843, Copy [Extradition of JS for Treason] Minutes, 30 June–1 July 1843, Edward Southwick Draft [Extradition of JS for Treason] Minutes, 30 June 1843–1 July 1843, James Sloan and William W. Phelps Draft [Extradition of JS for Treason] Hyrum Smith, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Parley P. Pratt, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Brigham Young, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] George Pitkin, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Lyman Wight, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Sidney Rigdon, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Receipt to James Campbell, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Certification, 3 July 1843–A [Extradition of JS for Treason] Docket Entry, 1–circa 6 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Trial Report, 8–26 July 1843, as Published in Nauvoo Neighbor [Extradition of JS for Treason]

Power of Attorney, 13 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–A [Extradition of JS for Treason]

Source Note

, Power of Attorney, to , , Cole Co., MO, 13 June 1843; Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court, 1843); sealed by . Featured version copied [between 23 and 30 June 1843]; unidentified handwriting; notation and docket by , [, between 23 and 30 June 1843]; notation and dockets by , [, Hancock Co., IL], 30 June 1843; three pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes dockets, notations, and archival marking.
Bifolium measuring 10 × 8¼ inches (25 × 21 cm), ruled with twenty-seven horizontal blue lines. The upper left corner of the recto of the first leaf has the insignia of a paper manufacturer that is now illegible. The top of the recto of the first leaf has the remnants of two red adhesive wafers that attached the power of attorney to the copy of the 17 June 1843 arrest warrant issued by governor . The warrant and power of attorney were included in a packet with JS’s 30 June 1843 petition to the Nauvoo Municipal Court, and the combined packet was folded for filing. At some point in time, the copy of the power of attorney and the copy of the warrant were detached. Later, the two documents were pinned together; the pin or pins were subsequently removed.
Nauvoo Municipal Court clerk added a notation and dockets to the versos of the first and second leaves. The second leaf, which apparently functioned as the outer page of the packet, was also docketed by attorney . The municipal court maintained custody of this copy of the power of attorney until 1845, when the city of was disincorporated. Many if not most of the city records were listed in an inventory that was produced by the Church Historian’s Office (later Church Historical Department) in 1846, when they were packed up along with church records and taken to the Salt Lake Valley. The city records are also listed in inventories of church records created in 1855, 1878, and circa 1904. The document was initialed by Andrew Jenson, who began working in the Church Historian’s Office in 1891 and served as assistant church historian from 1897 to 1941. By 1973 the document had been included in the JS Collection at the Church Historical Department (now CHL). The document’s presumed inclusion with the city records, the Andrew Jenson notation, and the document’s inclusion in the JS Collection indicate continuous institutional custody since the mid-1840s.

Footnotes

  1. [1]

    “An Act to Repeal the Nauvoo Charter,” 14th General Assembly, 1844–1845, Senate Bill no. 35 (House Bill no. 42), Illinois General Assembly, Enrolled Acts of the General Assembly, 1818–2012, Illinois State Archives, Springfield.

    Illinois General Assembly. Enrolled Acts of the General Assembly, 1818–2012. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.

  2. [2]

    “Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.

    Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.

  3. [3]

    “Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]–[2]; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]; “Index to Papers in the Historians Office,” ca. 1904, 7, Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.

    Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.

  4. [4]

    Jenson, Autobiography, 192, 389; Cannon, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891; Jenson, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891 and 19 Oct. 1897; Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 47–52.

    Jenson, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Jenson: Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . . Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938.

    Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.

    Jenson, Andrew. Journals, 1864–1941. Andrew Jenson, Autobiography and Journals, 1864–1941. CHL.

    Bitton, David, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.

  5. [5]

    See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.

Historical Introduction

Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Power of Attorney, 13 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–A [ Extradition of JS for Treason ] Power of Attorney, 13 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–B [ Extradition of JS for Treason ] Docket Entry, 1–circa 6 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason] Trial Report, 8–26 July 1843, as Published in Nauvoo Neighbor [Extradition of JS for Treason] Trial Report, 8–26 July 1843, as Published in Times and Seasons [Extradition of JS for Treason] Trial Report, 8–26 July 1843, as Published in Evidence [Extradition of JS for Treason]

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Filed June 30th. 1843.
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Power of Attorney, 13 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–A [Extradition of JS for Treason]
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JSP, D12:414–416
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  • James Sloan

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    Notation in the handwriting of James Sloan. The abbreviation stands for Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Nauvoo, Illinois.

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