Affidavit from Willard Richards, 18 December 1843
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Source Note
, Affidavit, before JS, , IL, 18 Dec. 1843; handwriting of ; certification in handwriting of ; docket in handwriting of ; one page; JS Office Papers, CHL.
Document Transcript
State of Illinois)
City of )
December 18— 1843
Personally— appeared , before me Joseph Smith, Mayor of said , and upon his oath deposeth and saith that from information he has recived he verily beleives that the peac[e] of said is in danger from a Mobocratic assemblage at , and a force collected under the command of Col in the lower part of the , and runners having been sent to to excite the Missourians to Join the Mobbers in this for the purpose of making a descent on said , or disturbing its peace[a]ble inhabitants— and further your deponent saith not.
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th Decr. 1843
Clerk of the mayors Court [p. [1]]
Dec 18— 1843— Affidavit of— — to the mayor on the Peace of the .—
Footnotes
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Certification in handwriting of William W. Phelps.
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Docket in handwriting of Willard Richards.
