They had previously been to my lodging and taken my horse, saddle and bridle, all was then taken into the woods about one mile to s Camp I was kept a Prisoner until the next morning when I was let go but have not obtained any part of my property which was worth about one hundred and fifty dollars— A. Greene.” Sworn before “John H. Holton Notary Public

“I was in company with several of my neighbors walking the Road in peace when one of our Company, a young man by the name of was shot down at my side! being shot by a Company of Mobbers and soon after this we were fired upon again, and two more were killed and several others wounded, this was about the 25 day of Octr. one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight in the State of , and I do hereby certify the above to be true according to the best of my knowledge— ” Sworn to before John H. Holton, Notary Public.

“This is to Certify that I was a Citizen of the State of at the time the difficulty originated between the People called Mormons and the Inhabitants of the aforesaid , and herein give a statement of the transactions that came under my observation according to the best of my recollection. I settled in in the Summer of 1838 in where I purchased land and erected buildings, the said land I now have a deed of, and in the fall of 1838 I purchased a claim on what is called the East fork of together with a large stock of Cattle and [HC 4:65] horses sheep and hogs, it being some sixty miles from the aforesaid where I first located and moved on to the latter place, supposing that I was at peace with all men, but I found by sad experience that I was surrounded by enemies, for in the fall of 1838 whilst at home with my family I was notified by a man by the name of James Welden that the people of had met at the house of one Doctor William P. Thompson then living in the attached part of said for the purpose of entering intomeasures respecting the people called mormons, and the said Welden was a member of the same, and also the aforesaid W. P. Thompson was a Justice of the Peace, and they all jointly agreed to drive every Mormon from the and notified me that I must leave immediately, or I would be in danger of losing my life, at this time my family some of them were sick, but after listening to the entreaties of my wife to flee for safety I committed them into the hands of God and left them, it being on Monday Morning, and in a short time after I left, there came some ten or fifteen men to my house and took possession of the same, and compelled my wife to cook for the same, and also made free to take such things as they saw fit, and whilst in this situation my child died, which I have no reason to doubt was for the want of care, which owing to the abuse she received and being deprived of rendering that care [p. 1032]