Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal
Smoot and myself in Kentucky. On the we all
met at Damon Creek Branch, where Brother Patten baptized
two. One was Father Henry Thomas, who had been a revo-
lutionary soldier under General Washington, and father of
Daniel and Henry Thomas.
A warrant was issued, on the oath of a priest, against
D. W. Patten, W. Parrish and myself. We were accused in
the warrant of the great "crime" of testifying that Christ
would come in this generation, and that we promised the
Holy Ghost to those whom we baptized. Brothers Patten and
