What you may not know is that my family members lived just across the street from these church leaders.
Ezra Chase (listed above on Property #15 indicated with the black arrow) is my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Uncle. He purchased the property from Joseph and Emma Smith for the sum of $900.00, as indicated on the deed below.
Four years later, on May 20, 1846, when the Saints were expelled from Nauvoo by their tormentors, the property was sold for $35.00, even though the empty lot had been upgraded with a house and other improvements.
A transcription of the above via the Joseph Smith Papers is as follows:
