<​20​> “I Gibson Gates do hereby certify that I was residing in Missouri, in the fall of the year of 1833 and had been for the space of about one year, I was at a meeting one day for worship, when a man by the name of Masters came to us stating that he was sent by the Mob to inform us that if we would forsake our religion, they were willing to be our brethren, and to fight for us; But if not, said he, our young men are ready, and we can scarce constrain them from falling upon you, and cutting you to pieces; soon after this, there came a large company of men, armed, to my place, and with much threatning, and profane words ordered me to be gone by the next day, or they would kill me and my family, in consequence of which threatning we quit our house in the month of November, leaving most of our effects, suffering very much with cold, fatigue, and hunger, we took on the Prairie and went southward twenty miles or more, where we stayed a few weeks. But still being threatened by the Mob, we removed to , where we lived in peace until the fall of 1838, when a mob arose against the people of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, when we were again obliged to leave our home, seek safety in another place for a few welks [weeks], when we returned our house had been broken upon, and the lock of a trunk broken open and the most valuable contents thereof taken away, the most of our bedding and furniture was either stolen or destroyed and <​we were​> then ordered to leave the — Gibson Gates” Sworn to, before J.P.

<​21​> “This is to certify that I was a Citizen of Missouri, and owned a good farm, laying on the Blue River six miles west of , and lived in peace with the Inhabitants until the [p. 1036]