Text granting special bail to Reuben Hedlock and John Gaylord issued by David D. Aiken on June 10, 1837.
Special Bail, 10 June 1837 [Eaton v. JS and O. Cowdery], The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed April 24, 2024
Winthrop Eaton)
vs) Assumpsit—
Joseph Smith Jr. &)
Oliver Cowdery)
The State of Ohio)
Geauga County, to wit:)
Be it remembered that on this tenth day of June AD 1837 John Gaylord and Reuben Hedlock of the county of Geauga personally appeared before me D[avid] D Aiken Clerk of the Court of common pleas of the said county of Geauga, and severally acknowledged themselves to owe unto Winthrop Eaton the sum of two thousand and three hundred dollars each, to be levied upon their several goods and chattels, lands tenements and real estates, upon condition that if the defendants Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery shall be condemned in this action at the suit of Winthrop Eaton the plaintiff they shall pay the costs and condemnation of the court or be rendered or render themselves into the custody of the Sheriff of said county for the same; or in case of failure that the said John Gaylord and Reuben Hedlock will pay the costs and condemnation for them. Taken and acknowledged the day and year above written before me
D. D. Aiken Cl[er]k.