Hyrum Smith, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason]
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, Testimony, , Hancock Co., IL, 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court 1843). Copied [3–6 July 1843]; handwriting of and ; docket by , [6 July 1843, , Hancock Co., IL]; docket by , ca. [6] July 1843; notation by , ca. [6] July 1843; twenty-eight pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.
thousand Dollars worth of land, most of which was entered and paid for at the land offices of the <in the State of >. yet <And> although the of the has been made acquainted with these facts and the particulars of our persecutions & oppressions by Petition to him and to Congress, yet<but> <yet> they have not as yet <even> attempted to restore the Mormons to their rights, or given any assurance that we may hereafter expect redress from them— And I do also know most positively & assuredly that my brother Joseph Smith Senr. has not been in the state of since the spring of the year 1839. And further this saith not—