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Mormon Legal History 1800-1850: Joseph Smith time period: Missouri Legal History

This resource guide covers print and online resources for legal and Mormon history during the life of Joseph Smith (1805-1844).

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Early Missouri Legal History

George C. Adams, A Christian Lawyer: A Sketch of the Life and Work of Hon. Warren Currier (1893)

      Online in Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800 to 1926

John T. Barker, Missouri Lawyer (1949)

        Microfiche KF 209 .A88 .B56 no.18

William Van Ness Bay, Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri (1878)

      Online in Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800 to 1926

      HBLL F 465 .B35

William Francis English, The Pioneer Lawyer and Jurist in Missouri (1947)

      HBLL KFM 7878 .E5 1947

North Todd Gentry, The Bench and Bar of Boone County, Missouri (1916)

      Online in Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800 to 1926

A. J. D. Stewart, The History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri (1898)

      Online in Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800 to 1926

      Microfiche KF 209 .A88 .B56 no.218

The Missouri Mormon War (1838-1841)

Stuart Banner, Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750-1860 (2000)

      First Floor State KFM 7878 .B36 2000

Legal Documents from the State of Missouri, 1835-1845 (5 items)

      BYU Archives Manuscript Collection MSS SC 363

Missouri Legal Documents, 1783-1869 (56 items)

      BYU Archives Manuscript Collection MSS SC 1226

Missouri State Archives, The Missouri Mormon War, http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/mormon.asp.

Includes:

1. Mormon War Papers, 1838-1841

2. Document Containing the Orders, Correspondence, etc. in relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons

3. Records of Thomas Reynolds, Office of Governor

      a. Correspondence related to Mormons

      b. Petition regarding pardon of a prisoner in Caldwell County

4. Governor Boggs’ Extermination Order and Governor Bond’s Rescission Order

5. Papers of James L. Minor, Office of Secretary of State

6. General Assembly of Missouri

7. Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of Missouri, 1838-1839

8. Messages and Proclamations of the Governors of the State of Missouri

9. Soldiers’ Records

10. County Records

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