[ Full-text transcription of: Petition from certain Mormons of DeWitt, MO to Governor Boggs, Jefferson City, MO ]
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Mormons
to
Govr copied
[Truly Coping]
State of
To his excellency Lilburn W. Boggs, Governor
Of the State of
Your Petitionerz, citizenz
of the
Excellency praying for relief. That whereas
your petitionerz have on the 20th inst. been
sorely aggrieved by being beset by a lawlesz
mob certain inhabitants of this and other count:
:tiez to the injury of the good citizenz of
this and the adjacent places, that on the afore said
day came from one hundred to one hundred
and fifty armed men & threatened with force
& violence to drive certain peaceable citizenz
from their homez in defiance of all law
& threatened them to drive said citizenz out of the county.
but on deliberation concluded to give them said
citizenz til the first of October next to leave
said County, & threatened if not gone by that
time to exterminate them without regard
to age or sex and destroy their chattels, by throw:
:ing them in the river- We therefore pray you
to take such stepz as shall put a stop to all
lawlesz proceedingz- and we your petitionerz
will ever pray xc
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Benjm Kendrick John Thorp
Dudly Thomas H. T. Chipmon
Wm. T. London David
John Kendrick Benjamin Hensley
Thomas Dehart Franklin A Thayer
Francis Brown
John Tilfard Nathan Stinon
H. G. Sherwood Mrz
John Murdock Henry Root
G. M. Hinkel A. L. Caldwell
James Vallanee Rufus Allen
Albert Lovee Daniel H. Barnes
Asa
William Wilson Robert Hampton
Thos Hollinshead Jonathan Hampton
Asa W. Barness George Peacock
Elijah T. Rogers Daniel Clark
John Dougherty John Proctor
Moses Harris James M. Ginn
Perry Thayer Smith Humphrey
B. R. Beartley John Clark
Jonathan Harris Daniel Thomas (no Mormon)
Wm. J. Hatfield
Oliver Olney