[ Full-text transcription of: An affidavit from William Morgan, Sheriff of Daviess County, MO to Governor Boggs, Jefferson City, MO ]
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Affidavit of Mor
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Oct. 21. 1838.
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October 21st. 1838.
I William Morgan, Sheriff of Daviess
County, do certify that on the 18th. day of
this inst. as I was going to
five men ride off from the store of Jacob
Stallings, & on walking fifty or sixty yards
further, I perceived the house was on fire.
I ran to the house where the clerk of the
store boarded, say 150 yards from the store & found
no one there. Whilst standing there I saw two
other men ride by the store and made no stop-
I then expected it was Mormons, on going home
one mile from town. I there learnt that the
Mormons had drove off the Clerk and had fired
the store. Since that they the Mormons have
ordered almost all the Citizens of the County to
leave, and they, myself, for one, have moved our
families to
in a desperate situation – they are burning and
driving as they go – It is reported by a prisoner
that they turned loose, last night, that they
were to burn Millport, & I have no doubt
of that being the fact. I remain your, with
respect –
To William Morgan
Lilburn W. Boggs (over)