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.
near the mob force and came up & conversed with me<> <me> on the subject after conversing some Time on the subject Major Hughes came and informed That his men were mutinizing and the mob were determined To fall on the saints in The <I> having a Col’s commission under was command<ed> To call out <my> his Troops forthwith and to use s own language “kill every G——d D——n Mobocrat <you can find in the > or make them prisoners and if they come upon you give them Hell” he then returned To his troops & gave them an address stating the interview he had with <me> and he also said to the mob that if they were so disposed they could go on with their measures that he considered that with the militia under his command all sufficient to quell every G——d D——n Mobocrat in the and if they did not feel disposed so to do To go home or G——d d——n them he would kill every one of them” the mob then dispersed. During these movements Joseph Smith nor any of those of or any other place were <not> at only those who were settlers <and legal citizens of the place> [p. 14]