Letter to Jacob Stollings, 27–28 June 1839
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Letter to Jacob Stollings, 27–28 June 1839
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Historical Introduction to Agreement with Jacob Stollings, 12 Apr. 1839; Letter from Jacob Stollings, ca. 12 Apr. 1839.
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Mulholland may have copied the the letter the day it was completed.
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- Letter to Jacob Stollings, 27–28 June 1839
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- JSP, D6:511–512
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- James Mulholland
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Following the state militia’s occupation of Far West, Missouri, beginning on 1 November 1838, Avard renounced the church, and he was a key witness for the prosecution in the November 1838 hearings. In spring 1839, when the main body of the church migrated to Illinois, Avard remained in Missouri. On 17 March 1839, he was excommunicated in absentia at a church conference in Quincy, Illinois. Avard and his family relocated to Madison County, Illinois, by mid-1840. (Reed Peck, Quincy, IL, to “Dear Friends,” 18 Sept. 1839, pp. 123–124, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA; “Extracts of the Minutes of Conferences,” Times and Seasons, Nov. 1839, 1:15; 1840 U.S. Census, Ridge Prairie, Madison Co., IL, 99; 1850 U.S. Census, Township 3 N R 6 W, Madison Co., IL, 474[B].)
Peck, Reed. Letter, Quincy, IL, to “Dear Friends,” 18 Sept. 1839. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
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In his November 1838 testimony, Avard acknowledged his participation in the expedition to Gallatin, Missouri, on 18 October 1838, although he offered no specifics regarding his activities. Latter-day Saint Morris Phelps, who also participated in the Saints’ activities in Gallatin, later recalled that “Sampson Avard in his rage hurled a pine brand into it [Stollings’s store] which melted it to ashes.” (Sampson Avard, Testimony, Richmond, MO, Nov. 1838, pp. [5]–[7], State of Missouri v. JS et al. for Treason and Other Crimes [Mo. 5th Jud. Cir. 1838], in State of Missouri, “Evidence”; Phelps, Reminiscences, 10.)
Phelps, Morris. Reminiscences, no date. CHL. MS 271.