But they took my gun. I wished to know the name of the man who got it, so that I might get it at some future day. The told me I need not ask for names for they would not be given— They then all went up into , as they said to attend to that store. Shortly after, three or four of them returned to my house again, one of them was one of the Defts. here, they Came after a Mormon girl who was at my house, and they told me, that if I belonged to neither party I had better put off & take the best of my property with me.— After they left, I went up into to see after some books, notes & accounts. I had up in , but could not get hold of them as they had been left taken— I met with one of the company some distance from the store, who told me if I would go to I could get them, as well as a coat pattern, which had also been taken This person advised me to go to or for protection— I turned off from him to return home— I looked towards the store-house & saw the smoke in the roof and in a short time the flames burst out of the top of the house. I thought it best then for me to put out seeing they were burning. It alarmed me, and I fixed & did start that evening leaving something like 700 hundred dollars worth of property in my house. After I left, my house my was burnt & the property gone.—