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Oliver Granger letter to Joseph Smith

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Description: Letter from Oliver Granger to Joseph Smith asking Smith to pay Samuel Clark $101 in land and cash, to go toward an obligation against Granger for land purchased to settle a debt against Smith in favor of Hitchcock and Sons of New York.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1841, July 5.
Call number: mssHM 28171
Creator: Granger, Oliver (1794-1841)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Hunley, November 6, 1964.
Associated people: Smith, Joseph, (1805-1844,)

Joseph Smith, Jr. letter to Oliver Granger

Manuscripts

Letter from Joseph Smith to Oliver Granger written from Nauvoo, Illinois. Smith writes of not receiving Granger's previous letters and that their content may have changed the "proceeding of [the] last Conference." He writes that they thought it "advisable to appoint someone to preside in Kirtland," and asks Granger to join Brother Babbit in the work. Smith asserts his hopes for Granger's welfare and "prosperity for the Saints in Kirtland." He also writes of Granger's securing of the "keys of the Lords House" and that he might pay a visit after the "New York debt is settled." The attribution of the signature to Joseph Smith is questionable, and the letter may have been written by Smith's secretary Robert B. Thompson.

mssHM 28168

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Lewis Granger papers

Manuscripts

The collection is made up of legal documents, correspondence, business receipts and miscellaneous notes. The legal documents include land deeds and leases for land in El Monte, California, and Los Angles County in general, and judicial records from various lawsuits in which Granger was involved; also included is a copy of an undated legal complaint against Benjamin D. Wilson. The correspondence, of which Lewis Granger and his wife Isabel are addressees, deals with land sales and money owned to the Grangers. A few pieces of the correspondence are personal in nature, but they are chiefly business related.

mssHM 68220-68241

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Receipt for $2.00 paid by Hiram Kimball for two notes given to Oliver Granger by Joseph Smith, a bankrupt

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Receipt noting Hiram Kimball as the highest bidder on two notes, including one to Oliver Granger, from Joseph Smith, "a bankrupt." Signed by Joel Catlin.

mssHM 28172

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Lewis Granger letter to "Dear Father,"

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The author of this letter, writing to his father, Ralph Granger, in Ohio, describes his journey overland to southern California from Salt Lake City in the fall of 1849. He then comments at considerable length upon Los Angeles and the surrounding region with reference to climate, agriculture and opportunities for investment

mssHM 58073

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Joseph Walker McCorkle letter to Lewis Granger, Washington, D.C

Manuscripts

This letter refers to the land claims of the Native Americans in Southern California, and McCorkle writes to Granger about the necessary forms and procedures to pursue such cases.

mssHM 62564

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Oliver Ellsworth letter to John Lawrence

Manuscripts

A note from Oliver Ellsworth, a member of the Pay-table Committee, to John Lawrence, Treasurer, authorizing him to pay "Mr. John Steele ... for sundry necessaries supplied the Canghnawaya chiefs ...at Harfford, on their way to General Washington's Camp last winter." Steele's signed receipt on the verso.

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Oliver Granger letter to Joseph Smith

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