Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
On the and of the month in Liverpool I sat
with the board of Directors of the British and American Joint Stock
Company until near midnight of the second day. It was a hard day's
work and a critical one. Each article of the deed for settlement
preparing for regestration was read over several times changed and
altered as the Board of Directors thought fit.
It had been with much labour care and
expence to get the Joint Stock Company settled so as to begin to
do business and during the day I had many trying things to
encounter. My spirit was greived and insulted as it had been many
times since I came to Liverpool from a source that I ought
to have expected better things.
We got the Nauvoo Times and Neighbor
and New York Messenger informing us of the commencing of mobing
once more in Hancock County. The mob had burned 42 houses
of the Saints in Lima; and a day or two later the Liverpool
papers teemed with rumours that mobs were raging against
the Saints in Hancock Co. had burned several hundred of their
houses and that a proposition had been made by the Twelve
to the citizens of Hancock County for the Mormons to leave ^that they would leave the state as soon as they could dispose of their property^
