Minutes, 2 August 1842 [City of Nauvoo v. W. Thompson]
Source Note
Minutes, [, Hancock Co., IL], 2 Aug. 1842, City of Nauvoo v. W. Thompson (Nauvoo, IL, Mayor’s Court 1842); handwriting of ; docket by ; four pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.
,— <is Married> Prisr acted to her as said, he did not attempt any improper privileges with her. Pr is her Stepfather, was in house an hour or two, he shut Door, he had been drinking, she was frightened when he took hold of her, was sitting by the Bed when he first attacked her, put his Arm round her or over her shoulder, did not sit down upon her lap, wanted some acknowledgments of what her Mother done on Island, had not kissed her when came to House, but was insisting on a kiss, he sd if she wd let him kiss her he wd let her alone, she did not let him, she was in Tears, cant say whether he was in the Act of endeavoring to pull up her Clothes.— Pr did not tell her he expected to be taken up for it.— her Mother returned home before she went <away> which was some time after, & Pr did not tell her Mother any thing of it.— [p. [3]]