Minutes and Testimonies, 12–29 November 1838 [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); unidentified handwriting; 126 pages; Eugene Morrow Violette Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.
Clinton County, they expected, they would give thunder and lightning before the next day night— all that was said to me was sent immediately to . I think that Lieut Cook was also of the company, and was ordered by the Capt to go in and look for guns, I told him I had none, & he said he would take my word for it— And further this deponent saith not—
Thorit Parsons
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Ezra Chipman a witness on behalf of the Defendents, produced sworn and examined deposeth and saith:
I was at s house sick, during the late expedition in — was not out of on any expedition, nor did he command any company during the stay of the mormon troops at — I am cert nor was he out of the to my recollection during this that time— had he been I think I should most likely have known it— I saw a bed taken from ’s house after the surrender of arms by the mormons at , and claimed by an the old lady, who took it. the same bed I saw at s before the comeing of the mormons to . During the stay of the mormon troops at during in the last expedition to , I am certain that was not out of half an hour an at one a <one> time, for I think I saw [p. [120]]