The subscriber was born of Ebenezer and Rachael Page, their first child Feb’ 25th. A.D. 1799. My Father was of pure English extraction my Mother of English Irish and Welch extraction— my place of birth was Trenton township, Oneida County; State of New York,— I embraced the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was baptized August the 18th. 1833 by the hands of Elder (own Brother to one of the three first Witnesses to the Divinity of the Book of Mormon) I was ordained an Elder under the hands of Elders , Ebenezer Page Jr. and others— My baptism took place in Brownhelm, Lorain County, Ohio, my Ordination in , of Huron County of the same State on the 12th of Sept’ 1833 I moved to , Geauga Co. Ohio in the fall of 1835. On the 31st. day of May 1836 I started on a Mission to west, Leeds County, I was gone from my family seven Months and Twenty days— On the 16th. day of Feb. 1837 I again left with my family of Wife and two small children taking with me all the earthly goods I possessed which consisted of one Bed, and our wearing apparel of the plainest kind to continue my Mission in the same region of Country as before. In July following the commandment came forth for me to occupy a place in the Quorum of the Twelve— On the 14th. day of May 1838 I started with a company of Saints made up of men women and their children for the state of where we landed with a company occupying thirty waggons in the first week of October at a place there called some six miles above the outlet of on the north side of the where we were attacked by an armed Mob and by them barbarously treated for near two weeks, we then went to , Caldwell Co, where we united with the general body of the Church and with them participated in all the grievious persecutions practiced on the Church by means of a furious mob, by which means I buried one wife and two children as Martyrs to our holy religion who died through extreme suffering for the want of the common [p. 15 [addenda]]