Lyman Wight, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason]
Source Note
, Testimony, , Hancock Co., IL, 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court 1843). Copied [between 3 and 6 July 1843]; handwriting of unidentified scribe; signature of ; docket by , [, Hancock Co., IL], ca. [6] July 1843; notation by , ca. [6] July 1843; thirty-two pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.
<to> the saints <who> immediately set in to enter the entire from the general government. The having been settled the saith that the issued an order for the organization of the into a Regiment of Militia and an election being called for a Col of s.d Regiment <I> was elected unanimously receiving 236 votes in August 1837. Then organized with Subaltern officers according to the statutes of the s and received legal and lawful commission from for the same. <I> Thinks sometime in the latter part of the winter s.d Joseph smith moved <to> the district of country the saints had purchased & not far from this time it was set into a county and it was called <& he> s.d. Joseph smith settled down like other citizens of a new county, and <he> was appointed the first elder in the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints, holding no office in the either civil or military. [p. 10]