Mormon businessmen sign a promissory note for the purchase from the federal government of a steamboat and other river equipment with Joseph and Hyrum Smith as guarantors. After the steamboat runs aground and the principals fail on the note, United States Attorney Justin Butterfield in Apr 1842 files a complaint and receives a default judgment against the Nauvoo businessmen, including Joseph, for $5,212.49. (1)
-- 170 years ago - Sep 10, 1840
[Mark Hofmann] Deseret Book sells Hofmann Book of Common Prayer for $50. It contains a signature of "Nathan Harris." Several days later Hofmann returns to claim that a poem written by Martin Harris was in the back of the volume. (2)
-- 25 years ago - Sep 10, 1985
[Mormon Tabernacle Choir] Inaugural Bells on Temple Square. (3)
-- 5 years ago - Sep 10, 2005
1 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
2 - Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology and Bibliography of the Hofmann Case, BYU Studies Vol. 29, No. 1, pg.80,
3 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Newsroom, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=036eb2987ff92110VgnVCM100000176f620aRCRDvgnextchannel=9ae411154963d010VgnVCM1000004e94610aRCRD
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