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.
as aforesaid on the said [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 with force and arms, maliciously and traitorously did meet, conspire, Consult, and agree, together amongst themselves, and together with divers other false tr[a]itors whose names are to the Jurors aforesaid unknown unlawfully, wickedly, and traitorously, to subvert and alter and Cause to be subverted and altered, the legislature, rule and goverment now duly and happily established in this State of — And further to fulfil perfect and bring to effect, their most evil and wicked treason, and treasonable practises Compassings and imaginations aforesaid and in order the more readily and efectually to bring about such subversion and alteration last aforesaid, the said Defendants, as such false traitors as aforesaid together with divers other false traitors, whose names are to the said Jurors unknown, on the said [blank] day of [blank] in the of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight, and on divers days and times as well before as after, with force and arms at the aforesaid, maliciously and traitorously did prepare, and compose and and did then and there <maliciously and traitorously> cause to be prepared and composed, divers books pamphlets, letters declarations, instructions resolutions, orders, addresses and writings and writings and did then and there maliciously and traitorously publish and disperse and did then and there [p. 6]