Indictment, circa 10 April 1839 [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Indictment, [Honey Creek Township], Daviess Co., MO, ca. 10 Apr. 1839, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Daviess Co., MO, Circuit Court 1839); handwriting of ; docket and notations by with probable signature of Robert P. Peniston Sr., [Honey Creek Township, Daviess Co., MO], [ca. 10 Apr. 1839]; eleven pages; partial manuscript in Historical Department, Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents Collection, CHL. Complete photocopy in Max H. Parkin, Collected Missouri Court Documents, CHL.
and imaginations aforesaid the said defendants as such false traitors as aforesaid with force and arms on the said [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our eighteen hundred and thirty— eight and on divers other days and times as well before as after at the County of aforesaid maliciously and traitorously did meet. conspire. consult and agree among themselves and together with divers other false traitors, whose names are to the said Jurors unknown to cause to and procure a convention and meeting of divers citizens of this to be assembled and held within this with intent and in order that the persons to be assembled at such meeting should and might wickedly and traitorously without authority and in defyance of the Laws of this levy war against the people our said — and subvert and Cause to be subverted and altered the legislature rule and government of this now duly and happily established in this . And further to fulfill perfect and bring to effect, their most evil and wicked treason and treasonable compassings and imaginations aforesaid and in order the more readily and effectually to assemble such conventi[on] and meeting as aforesaid for the traitorous purposes purposes aforesaid and thereby to accomplish the said purposes. the said Defendants as such false traitors as aforesaid together with divers other false traitors whose names are to the Jurors unknown aforesaid unknown. the said Defendants defendants as such false traitors as aforesaid with force and arms on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight, and on divers other days and times as well before as after at the County of aforesaid maliciously and traitorously did compose and write and did then and there maliciously and traitorously cause to be writen composed and writen divers. pamphlets. letters [p. 2]