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.
that about 4 days after the surround <burning> of & Mill port myself and Adison Price was surround in a house <in > and taken prisoners by a company of mormons, they took from me 3 guns & a butcher knife the deft was capt of the company an other defendant was there in the company, The . asked us if we belonged to the mob we replied not. he then said we had better join them & come into for protection, I replied that I would consider of that, Mr. Price said to them that he would consider had moved his family into , the then said if we didnot wish to fight, them we must leave the , for we intend said he, after we clear get possession of we intend to take [p. [80]]