Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 April 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
Source Note
Special conference of the church, Minutes, and JS, Discourses, [, Hancock Co., IL], 6–7 Apr. 1843. Version copied [ca. 6–7 Apr. 1843] in JS, Journal, 1842–1844, bk. 2, pp. [48]–[84]; handwriting of ; JS Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for JS, Journal, 1842–1844.
state.) <&> he gave me deeds. & I got them recorded.— he calld for some more favors. & I let him have some cloths— <to the amount of> 6 or 7 hundrd dollars. I have offerd this land to many, who if they would go to settle there but nobody will go.— <I agre[e]d> if I found he owned as much as he pretended I would give my influence to build up . . <is his name he has got almost> most $1100 <from me,> he looks exactly like a woodchuck, & talks like a woodchuck on a stump with a chaw of tobacco. <in his mouth.> he tried to git his hands to steal a stove from near my stove & carry it off on the boat raft, he is a thief.— My advice is, [p. [68]]