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Warrant, 11 June 1844, William Clayton Copy [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A]

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Introduction to State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A, State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus, State of Illinois v. H. Smith et al. on Habeas Corpus, and State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–B Warrant, 11 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A] Warrant, 11 June 1844, William Clayton Copy [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A] Warrant, 11 June 1844, John Taylor and Willard Richards Copy [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A] Recognizance, 25 June 1844–A [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A] Recognizance, 25 June 1844–B [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A] Recognizance, 25 June 1844–C [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A] Recognizance, 25 June 1844–D [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A] Petition to Nauvoo Municipal Court, 12 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Habeas Corpus, 12 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Summons, 12 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Minutes, 12 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Testimonies, 12 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Docket Entry, circa 12 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Execution, 13 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Trial Report, between circa 12 and 20 June 1844, Draft [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Trial Report, between circa 12 and 20 June 1844, Partial Draft [State of Illinois v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus] Petition, 13 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. H. Smith et al. on Habeas Corpus] Habeas Corpus, 13 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. H. Smith et al. on Habeas Corpus] Habeas Corpus, 13 June 1844, Copy [State of Illinois v. H. Smith et al. on Habeas Corpus] Execution, 13 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. H. Smith et al. on Habeas Corpus] Docket Entry, circa 13 June 1844 [State of Illinois v. H. Smith et al. on Habeas Corpus]

Warrant, 11 June 1844, William Clayton Copy [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A]

Source Note

, Warrant, , Hancock Co., IL, to “all Constables, Sheriffs and coroners” of , for JS, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , 11 June 1844; sealed by ; State of IL v. JS et al. for Riot–A (Hancock Co., IL, Justice of the Peace Court 1844). Featured version copied [12 June 1844] for State of IL v. JS for Riot on Habeas Corpus (Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court 1844); handwriting of ; notations by , [, IL], 13 June 1844; notation by with signature of , , Hancock Co., IL, 13 June 1844; docket and notation by , [ca. 13 June 1844]; two pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes notations, docket, and use marks.
Single leaf measuring 13 × 8½ inches (33 × 22 cm). The document was folded in half twice horizontally for carrying and filing. There is residue of a red wafer near the top of the verso, where the copy of the warrant was attached to the 12 June 1844 petition.
A docket and filing notation were added on 12 June 1844 by municipal court clerk , who served in that capacity from 1843 until the city was disincorporated in 1845. This document was presumably kept among city records until the city was disincorporated. Many if not most of the city records were likely included in the various collections of city records listed in an inventory 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. One of constable ’s returns on the warrant was copied into JS’s history in 1856. The city records are also listed in inventories of church records created in 1855, 1878, and circa 1904. By 1973 the document had been included in the JS Collection at the Church Historical Department (now CHL). The document’s presumed inclusion with Nauvoo city records listed in early church inventories, its partial incorporation into JS’s history, and its later inclusion in the JS Collection indicate continuous church custody since 1845.

Footnotes

  1. Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 12 Aug. 1843, 186; Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 Dec. 1840; “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, 1818–2018, Illinois State Archives, Springfield.

    Illinois General Assembly. Bills, Resolutions, and Related General Assembly Records, 1st–98th Bienniums, 1819–2015. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.

  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. JS History, vol. F-1, 89; Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 441.

    Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.

  4. “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.

  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. Warrant, 11 June 1844 [ State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A ]
Warrant, 11 June 1844, William Clayton Copy [ State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A ]
Warrant, 11 June 1844, John Taylor and Willard Richards Copy [ State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A ]

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State of Illinois)
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The people of the State of to all Constables, Sheriffs and coroners of said
Greeting:
Whereas complaint hath been made before me, one of the justices of the peace, within & for the County of aforesaid, upon the oath of of said that Joseph Smith, , , , , , , , , , [,] , , , , , and of said , did on the tenth day of June instant, commit a , at & within the aforesaid, wherein they with force & violence broke into the printing office of the Nauvoo Expositor and unlawfully & with force burned & destroyed the printing press, type & fixtures of the same, being the property of , ; , , , and .
These are therefore to command you, forthwith to apprehend the said Joseph Smith, [,] , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , and bring them before me or some other justice of the Peace to answer the premises, and further to be dealt with according to law [p. [1]]
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Warrant, 11 June 1844, William Clayton Copy [State of Illinois v. JS et al. for Riot–A]
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Footnotes

  1. An abbreviation for the Latin scilicet, meaning “namely” or “to wit.” (“Scilicet,” in Bouvier, Law Dictionary, 2:483.)

    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. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson, 1843.

  2. This complaint is apparently not extant.

  3. These first five named individuals, along with Levi Richards, were all acting members of the Nauvoo City Council when the resolution declaring the Expositor a nuisance was approved on 10 June 1844. It is unclear why Higbee targeted these six men but not the seven other city council members who also supported the resolution—George W. Harris, Edward Hunter, Aaron Johnson, Phineas Richards, Elias Smith, Orson Spencer, and George Stiles. (See Minutes, 10 June 1844; and “For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1].)

  4. Contemporaneous estimates indicate that at least one hundred men participated in the destruction of the press. It is unclear why Higbee specified these individuals. Witnesses who testified before Nauvoo alderman and justice of the peace Daniel H. Wells on 17 June 1844 described each of these men, except Huntington and Coolidge, as participants in the destruction, which suggests that these were prominent actors in the proceedings. (JS, Journal, 10 June 1844; Vilate Murray Kimball, Nauvoo, IL, to Heber C. Kimball, Baltimore, MD, 9, 11, and 24 June 1844, [2], Kimball Family Correspondence, CHL; “For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 21 June 1844, [1].)

    Kimball Family Correspondence, 1838–1871. CHL. MS 6241.

    Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.

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