The State of Ohio)

Geauga County ss. [scilicet])

seal

To the Sheriff of said County . . . Greeting:— We command you that you take Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery if they be found in your bailiwick and them safely keep so that you have them forthwith before our court of common pleas for said county now sitting at the court house in Chardon to answer unto Winthrop Eaton in a plea of assumpsit damages two thousand dollars, and have you then there this writ.

Witness the Honourable Van R. Humphrey President Judge of said court at Chardon this sixth day of June AD 1836.

D[avid] D. Aiken Clerk.

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Suit brought upon a promissory note dated October 11th 1836 payable six months after date given by defendants to plaintiff: Also for money lent and on an account stated; Amt. ap.pearing due $1150.00.

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The State of Ohio, Geauga County ss.} In obedience to the command of this writ I have executed the same by bringing the body of Joseph Smith Jr. forward and he is now in court this 9th day of June 1837— Oliver Cowdery was not to be found in my bailiwick.

A[bel] Kimball 2d. Sh[eri]ff.

E[ber] Benjamin Depty. [p. 277]