at a little town called . Immediately a messenger, whilst he was yet talking came in from stating that three or four hundred men had assembled together at that place armed cap-a-pie, and that they threatened the utter extinction of the citizens of that place, if they did not leave the place immediately and that they had also surrounded the & cut of[f] all supplies of food, so that many of them were suffering with hunger. seemed to be very much alarmed and appeared to be willing to do all he could to assist and to relieve the sufferings of the Mormon people; he advised that a petition be immidiately got up & sent to the . A petition was accordingly prepared & a messenger dispatched immediately to the and another petition was sent to . The Mormon people throughout the country were in a great state of alarm and also in great distress: they saw themselves completely surrounded with armed forces on the north & on the north west and on the south and also who was a Methodist preacher and who was then a Captain over a militia company of 50 Soldiers, but who had added to his number out of the surrounding counties about a hundred more which made his force about 150 strong, was stationed at sending out his scouting parties, taking men, women & children prisoners, driving off cattle, hogs and horses, entering into every house on Log & Long Creeks, rifling their houses of their most precious articles, such as money, bedding and clothing taking all their old muskets and their rifles or military implements, threatening the people with instant death if they did not deliver up all their precious things and enter into a covenant to leave the or go into the city of by the next morning, saying that they calculated to drive the people into and then drive them to hell.” also was doing the same on the north west side of ; and , a Presbyterian minister, was the leader of the mob in ; and a very noted man of the same Society was the leader of the mob in Carroll county and they were also sending out their scouting parties, robbing and pillaging houses, driving away hogs horses & cattle taking men women & children and carrying them off, threatening their lives and subjecting them to all manner of abuses that they could invent or think of.