After the Mormons removed from they settled in the County of as aforesaid. Your memorialists do not deem it necessary for their purpose to detail the history of the progress, the cares & anxieties of the Mormons settlement from the time they settled in untill in the year 1836— untill the Fall of the year 1838. They would howevever [say?] that during all that time they deported themselves as good citizens obeying the laws [of the?] land and the moral and religious duties enjoined by their faith. That there might have been some faithless among the faithful is possible, they would <​not​> deny that there might have been some who were a scandal to their brethern and what society they would ask has not some unworthy Member? Where is the sect, where they community in which there cannot be found some who trample under foot the laws of God and man? [p. 11]