“Twenty sixth Congress— First Session. In Senate of the March 4. 1840. Submitted, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed— Mr. [Garret] Wall made the following Report. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Memorial of a delegation of the Latter Day Saints, report— The petition of the memorialists sets forth, in substance, that a portion of their sect commenced a settlement in the County of , in the State of Missouri, in the summer of 1831; that they bought lands, built houses, erected Churches, and established their homes, and engaged in all the various occupations of life; that they were expelled from that in 1833 by a mob, under circumstances of great outrage, cruelty and oppression, and against all law, and without any offence committed on their part, and to the destruction of property to the amount of 120,000 dollars; that the Society thus expelled, amounted to about 1,200 souls; that no compensation was ever made for the destruction of their property in , that after their expulsion from , they settled in on the opposite side of the , where they purchased lands, and entered others at the land office, where they resided peaceably for three years, engaged in cultivation, and other useful and active employments, when the Mob again threatened their peace, lives, and property; and they became alarmed, and finally made a treaty with the Citizens of , that they should purchase their lands, and the Saints should remove, which was complied with on their part, and the Saints removed to the County of , where they took up their abode, [p. 1023]