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R         Jasper County (Mo.).

515                  Records, 1842-1890 (bulk 1851-1861).

                                                Eight volumes.

 

 

 

These are docket books, marriage records, and stray books, mostly for Marion Township, the collector’s forfeiture list, and the clerk’s letterpress book for Jasper County, Missouri.  The collec­tion is also available on microfilm.

 

This collection of Jasper County records consists primarily of the docket books of justices of the peace of Marion Township.  The township includes the county seat of Carthage.  Some of the docket books also include marriage records and the records of strays taken up in the township.  The docket books begin in January 1842 and continue through November 1861, but there are no records for July 1861.  Most of the cases on the dockets concern litigation regarding debts, in­cluding actions against the unpaid subscribers to the Carthage Female Academy.  Volumes 4 and 5 contain alphabetical indexes to the cases.  Justices of the peace who handled the cases included George Blakeney, Peter G. Boling, Peter W. Clubb, Edwin R. Griffith, Archibald McCoy, Robert McFarland, Thomas G. Walton, and Henry H. Young.

 

The collection also includes the county collector’s list of forfeited lands for 1858-1860, and the clerk’s letterpress book, 1875-1890.  The forfeiture list, which was not certified by the state until 1 October 1867, is in very poor condition.  Patrons should consult the microfilm edition.  The clerk’s letterpress book, kept by George Blakeney, is largely illegible.  It begins with a statement by Blakeney that he was the first Democratic official elected in Jasper County since the beginning of the Civil War.

 

 

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