You-all have helped me think about many things regarding my MOOREs and their
migration from Clay Co., IN to Fulton Co., IL.
On the Fulton USGENWEB site, I found the link to the IL Archives. Those
folks are fabulous. I called and requested 4 case files this past Monday with
James A. MOOREs name on them and received them on Thursday. 82 pages at $0.10
each. They did not ask me to reimburse them for postage (I will) and sent
the bill WITH the copies.
It will take a bit of time to read some of the documents due to fancy
handwriting and/or faded documents but it is doable. Beside the document I've
transcribed below, there is another document with NAMES and dates as a result of
questions and answers of the interview that is legible. I will transcribe
that one soon.
Here's one of interest with Clay Co and Fulton Co surnames:
Circuit Court Dedimus
State of Illinois, Fulton County
The people of the State of Illinois: To ___ _ Elkin Esq.
Whereas, it has been reported to us that George D. TETER, John J.
STEPHENSON, Enos MILES and David A. MOORE are material witnesses in a certain cause now
pending in our Circuit Court in and for the County of Fulton aforesaid,
between Alexander M. CRAWFORD and John M. CRAWFORD plaintiffs and James A. MOORE
is defendant, and that the said witnesses reside in the County of Clay in the
State of Indiana aforesaid, without the said State of Illinois, and that
their personal attendance cannot be procured at the trail of the said cause:
Now, know ye, that we, in confidence of your prudence and fidelity, have
appointed you Commissioner to examine the said witnesses and do therefore authorize
and require you to cause the said witnesses to come before you at such time
and place as you may therefore designate and appoint, and diligently to
examine the said witnesses on the oath or affirmation of the said witnesses, by
you first duly in the behalf administered, and faithfully to take teh deposition
of the said witnesses upon all interrogatories inclosed * with or attached
to these presents, both on the part of the said Plaintiffs and of the said
Defendant, and none others; and the same when thus taken, together with this
Commission and the said Interrogatories, to certify into our said Circuit
Court, with the least possible delay.
Witness H. W. BAUGHMAN Clerk of said Court, and the seal thereof, at
Lewistown in said County, this 24th day of November A.D. 1869.
H.W. BAUGHMAN Clerk (signature)
* "inclosed" is spelled with an "i" in the preprinted,
fill-in-the-blanks
document.