Lyman Wight, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason]
Lyman Wight, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason]
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, 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.
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in 3 or 4 days and nights during <most of> which Time the prisoners were Treated in the most Gentlemanly manner and boarded at a Hotel for which they had afterwards when confined in To pay the most extravagant price or have their property, of <if> any they had, attached for the same From at this time had arrived at and by orders from the Took on himself the command of <the> whole of the Militia notwithstanding, s commission was the oldest, but he was supposed to be too friendly to the mormons and therefore dismounted, and sanctioned the measures of , however cruel they might have been, and said, he should have done the same had he been there himself. accordingly he remanded the prisoners from they were the says < &> they were taken and escorted by a strong guard to , Threatened several times on the way with violence and death, they were met 5 miles before they reached by <about> 100 armed men and when they arrived in they [p. 27]
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Insertion in handwriting of James Sloan.

Insertion in handwriting of James Sloan.

Insertion in handwriting of James Sloan.
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