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ets at Springfield, the new capital: Assembly in the Second Presbyterian Church, Senate in First Methodist, and the Superior Court in the Episcopal......Dec. 9, 1839 Mormons locate on the east bank of the Mississippi, in Hancock county, and found Nauvoo......1840 Laws passed, to diminish the State debt and put the State bank into liquidation. Jan. 24, 1843, and to reduce the public debt $1,000,000 and put the Bank of Illinois into liquidation ......1843 Mormon leaders Joe and Hyrum Smith, the former mayor of Nauvoo, imprisoned for treason in levying war against the State by declaring martial law in Nauvoo. and by ordering out the Nauvoo Legion to resist a posse comitatus, assassinated in jail at Carthage by conspirators......June 27, 1844 Two thousand Mormons, the van of the general exodus, cross the Mississippi on the ice......Feb. 15, 1846 Abraham Lincoln elected to Congress......1846 Convention meets at Springfield, June 7, 1847, and completes a constitution