Minutes and Testimonies, 12–29 November 1838 [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Minutes and Testimonies, , Ray Co., MO, 12–29 Nov. 1838, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Fifth Judicial Circuit of MO 1838); unidentified handwriting; 126 pages; Eugene Morrow Violette Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.
was set on fire, but I heard some of the company command to take all the goods out before setting the house on fire. The following defendents were in this expedition to . Ebenezer Page. I think was there. Maurice [Morris] Phelps was there & . and the following of the Defendents I saw at while there. Joseph Smith Jr. , .— I was in three days, and during that time saw a great deal of plunder brought in;— Companies went out every day, a great deal of honey was also brought in, and also cattle & hogs— all which was called consecrated property.— I was a stranger to most of the men I saw. And further this deponent saith not.
Porter Yale
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Moses Benjamin Slade, a witness for the state, produced, sworn and examined, deposeth & saith
I was <in> a meeting at the school house in , while the mormon troops were at in the last expedition:— After the assembly had got into the house, aguard was placed at the door got up, and in a speech said, that the time had now come when every man must take his part in this war, and that they had been running away & leaving , and that the last man had now left the that should, be allowed to do so.— and that if any man was [p. [107]]