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.
been, I [illegible] absent <before bed time> long enough to have gone to the square up in , I certainly should <most likely> have known it <& I don’t believe they were> they went to bed before I did, and when I went to bed, I passed through their room where they were, and this was about nine O’clock or <perhaps> a little after— I heard no ta<l>king nor passing through the house that night— I had there been any I should, most likely, have heard it— And further this saith not—
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Thoref Thorit Parsons a witness on behalf of the defendants, produced sworn and examined deposeth and saith:
I was living in at the time of the battle with , on the <head of the> east fork of log creek, and about <5 or> six miles from the battle ground. On the day before the fight, between one & three o’clock in the evening, a company of 23 all <mostly> armed <men> came to my house, they enquired my name of they told me I must go away, that I must leave that place— I asked them where I should go— they answered that was my own look out— and that I must leave there by three O’clock next day <night;>— They were strangers all to me— but I have seen the man since who had the command of them and now know <think> that it was , <as he looks like the man,> having learnt his name since— they further stated to me, that if they got they got the forces from Clinton [p. [119]]