[ Full-text transcription of: Witness Allen Rathburn ]
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morning
by the assistance of friends we did start leaving most of our
property
there, Since then I have returned and found the
houses
burnt & the property gone consisting
of hous hold
plunder
and 2 q bee gums they enquired for Gums
and got
down
one and took it away from the house belonging to
one
Josiah Littlefield they further said that they had been driven
as
long as they were a going to. that they had got Strong enough
now
to defend themselves that they intended to do it by the Sword
that
they were at the defiance of any Set of men who could come a
=gainst
them & that they now intended to make it a war of extermi
=nation,
the following of the defendants were in the above Company
Voit. James H. Rattens Jesse D Hunter Darwin Chase & I
think
from his appearance Maurice Phelps was there but may
be
mistaken, Hunter appeared to be Captain or Commander of
the
Company as he did the most of the talking. but most all of
them
had something to Say and further this deponent saith not
his
Thos M x Odle
mark
John
Raglin a
witness produced sworn and examined on behalf
the
State deposeth and saith I was in
an
attack on it which took place on one thursday in October. All the
persons
that were there left the town. Another
Mormons, as I believe them
to
be to the number of about 150 or 200 all armed took posses-
=sion
of the town and the Store and other houses were burnt as I
learned
that evening and further this deponent saith not
his
John X Raglin
mark
Allen
Rathburn a witness produced sworn and examined
on
behalf of the State deposeth and Saith, On the day before
the
battle with Bogard I was I was in far West and early in the morn
=ing
Daniel Carn One of the defendants here asked me to
help
him to grease his waggon I did so and asked him where
he
was going he said he was going out to Mr Raglins in
were
going for directly afterwards I was down at Morrisons
Store
in far west there was a Company of 10 or 12 men with 2
or
3 waggons I heard Mr Huntingdon ask for brimstone some
of
the Company said they had 2 pounds Huntingdon answered that would
do,
Mr Hunter one of the defendants here, gave the word of com
mand
and they marched off Mr Daniel Carn with his Waggon
with
them late that evening I saw Danl Carn [“with” crossed out] his waggon
at
his grocery door in far west I saw Carn and Huntingdon unload
=ing
& the waggon was loaded with one bee gum and houshold
plunder
consisting of beds or bed cloaths Kindes tied up Also
there
were onions in the waggon Mr Carn’s that evening
remarked
that there would be in that night
a considerable
number of sheep and Cattles he further Said
that it looked to
him sometimes that it was not right to take
plunder but that it
was according to Jos Smith Jr directions
and that was the
reason why he did it. the next morning I Saw
a considerable
number of Sheep on the Square in far West near
about 100. I then
left far west and returned home in the east part of
captain but
performed no military duty while there and
further this
deponent Saith not Allen
Rathburn
Jeremiah Myers a witness produced sworn and exa
=mined deposeth and
saith I was in the last expedition
to Daviess being
Summoned from my home in the east part
of
where I was told we
had to March to Daviess and did
so. I think it was the third day after our
arrival at
Diahmon that Capt
fearnots company of about 100
men started out and
not until we got near to
I learn where they
were going I was then told there was
a mob at
them when within
about 1/2 mile of
And rushed into
town in a hurrah I only Saw 2 men
who were running
Others Said there were about 15 we
gathered up around
the Store and Some went in holloring
bring them out here
supposing there were men in the house
about this time
myself and another man returned to camp at
Diahmon that
evening I saw Store goods at the Bishop’s Store
and was informed by
Mahlon Johnson One of the Company
to
were the goods I
saw deposited in the bishops Store, they
were Called and
Considered Consecrated (goods) or property
and that they were
to be dealt out by the bishop to those
that Stood in need,
I saw parties Coming, in and going out
while in Camp
but Saw no property Come into our Camp
but I saw a pen of
Cattle which was Called Buffalo
the following of
the defendants were in the last expedition
to Daviess, Jos
Smith Jr. Lyman Wights who resides
in Diahmon
Washington Voorhees I never Saw
Lyman Wight in
Command during this Expedition my
camp was half a
mile from Wight and I staid pretty constantly
about my own
camp. I do not recollect that I was in
any
other expedition
than the one to Gallatin Ebenozer Page