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Emma Smith’s Request to End JS’s Extradition
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Emma Smith’s Request to End JS’s Extradition
17 August 1842
In Nauvoo, Illinois, Emma Smith wrote first of two letters to Illinois governor Thomas Carlin, requesting that he end proceedings to extradite JS to Missouri.