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.
bed, <as I believed it to be,> at one Sloans (as I understood his name to be)— When my step-mother fled as above stated, she went to the lower end of to where <left her home>I near , where the above articles were left. she went into the lower part of — to which place I went when turned loose as a prisoner— my father’s name is Robert Job— And further this deponent saith not.
X <his mark> Andw. J Job
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<Freeburn H Gardener> a witness, on behalf of the State, produced, sworn & examined, deposeth and saith:—
I was pressed to go in the expedition against ,& went part of the way, as far as to Brag’s place— about 7 miles to <from> camp— while there, I heard , a who was <called> lecturing the troops— heard him direct his men how to shoot— to bring their guns up on a raise riseto their object, & hold their breath & fire, and generally they would make a deadly shoot— and that those they were a going to fighght should not be able to hurt them, that their pieces should be elevated to<o> high or be <held> too low— when called on that night to go, I was informed by the man who came for me, that the object was to disperse a mob <down on >— I proceeded no further than to Brags place. I left the camp and returned home The [p. [72]]