Grandison Newell acknowledges that William Marks and Oliver Granger have been assigned $1,600 judgement against Joseph, acting as his agents.
Statement by Grandison Newell to William Marks and Oliver Granger, March 1, 1838, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed April 24, 2024
For and inconsideration of Sixteen hundred dollars to me in hand paid by William Marks and Oliver Granger I, do hereby sell assign and setover to the Said William Marks and Oliver Granger two Judgements infavor of Samuel D. Rounds and assigned to me by said Rounds against Joseph Smith jr. and Sidney Rigdon of one thousand dollars each which Judgements wer[e] obtained at the Court of Common Pleas in holden at <in> Chardon in and for the county of Geauga “to wit” on the 24th. day of October 1837 and I do agree to pay all costs that has accrued on Said Judgements up to this date
G[randison] Newell
Kirtland March 1st. 1838
At[t]est Lyman Cowdery.