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.
to heal them. A was also there mortally wounded. I heard the following of the prissoners <say they were he was> in the fight, <to wit:> Norman Shearer.
“I never saw <heard> make any inflammatory remarks, but I have looked on him as one composing the first presidency, acting in concert with Joseph Smith Jr approving by his presence acts & conversations the <unlawful> schemes of the presidency—— I never saw and two of the Defendents, take any activepart in the above measures. testafied to by me. and I have heard Joseph Smith Jr say he consedered a coward & backward & ought to be forced out—
The presidency was made an
I was continually in the society or company of the presidency, continually receiving instruction from them as to the teachings of the danite band— & I continually informed them of my teachings— and they were well apprised of my course & teachings in the Danite-society—
And further this deponent saith not—
Sampson Avard
The following of the defendants were in the last expedition to — Joseph Smith Jr , — , , , , , , Moses Clawson, , , Ebenezer Page, , , , Henry Zabriskey, doubtful,— , Maurice [Morris] Phelps [p. [22]]