Minutes and Testimonies, 12–29 November 1838, Copy and Letter [State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason]
Source Note
Minutes and Testimonies, [, Ray Co., MO], 12–29 Nov. 1838, State of MO v. Gates et al. for Treason (Fifth Judicial Circuit of MO 1838). Copied with letter ca. late 1838–ca. early 1839; unidentified handwriting; fifty-one pages; Mormons Collection, 1813–1970, Missouri History Museum.
glass tumblers were also taken from his house which was his property—
During all the time that the mormon troops were in remained in and was not out in any scouting party. And further this deponent saith not.
Malinda Porter—
Delia F Pine a witness for the Defents. produced, sworn, & examined deposeth & saith:
I have been living in s family since the 5th of July last, and was at his house when the Mormon troops arrived at in the last expedition to — that night remained at home all night. There was a bed in s house belonging to him which was pieced at the end, and which has since the surrender of the mormons, been claimed, & taken off by a woman said to be a widdow Morgan, also she claimed & took some spoons, knives & forks, which I knew ware the property of ; I at no time, have seen property about his house, which did not belong to him.—
never left during the stay of the Mormon troops there, in the last expedition, which was during the whole time troops were in .— And during the whole time they were in I do not think was out of my sight at any time more than an hour. It was wednesday before the snow fell. I think, that the mormon troops arrived in and they staid in about a week
From the time the mormon troops returned from to (who had been in during the snow storm & among whom I saw Joseph <& >) never was out of , until he went with the troops to the [p. [44]]