Letter from Rachel Robinson, 1 July 1856
Black Rock
Brother Woodruff excuse me for troubling
you but the reason why I write to you is because
I know you and know you to be a man of truth
and equity you probaly remember that some six
or seven years ago that president Young said
in the presence of hundreds of people brethren
you have been to much cramped but we were
obliged to do so now sell out your ten & five
acre lots & go East West North & South and
and stake out land and your stakes shall
be sacred we did so accordingly staked out
our land here and settled on it and have
lived here ever since I have lived here weeks
alone or with no other company but my infant when
every one had fled within fifteen miles of me
and I know that there was no other claim on the
land when we made ours but I am continualy
harrassed by pretended church claims one
man will come and set up salt works
directly in my way and if I tell him he is in my
way and I want him to remove he will say
the governer the gover has employed me to
boil salt for the church and told me to come
here if there is any thing out of the way it
is between you and him another will come
and pasture cattle or sheep here and drive
my own cattle off of the place and say the
