Petition to United States Congress, circa 29 November 1839, Draft
Source Note
JS, , and , Petition Draft, , to United States Congress, Washington DC, ca. 29 Nov. 1839; handwriting of ; 35 pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes dockets.
To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the in Congress assembled:
Your Petitioners Joseph Smith and would most respectfully represent that they have been delegated, by their breth[r]en and fellow Citizens, known as “” (commonly called Mormons) to prepare present to you a Statement of their wrongs and a prayer for their Relief which they now have the honor to submit to the consideration of your Honorable Body.
In the Summer of the 1831 a portion of the Church Sect above named commenced a settlement in the County of in the State of Missouri. The individuals making that settlement had emigrated from almost every state in the hence to that lovely spot in the far West by the hope of improvement improvemeng [improving] their condition [p. 1]