To carry out these vile and inhuman measures he sent
a General after his own heart to execute his orders forthwith and
this was the cause of our people leaving the State of Missouri and
coming to Quincy.
The whole city of the Saints F Far West had
to surrender to the militia and the Presidency with about sixty
others were cast into prison and chains. They were all delivered
at the time of which I write excepting eleven persons.
The mob used every exertion to take the life of Joseph and others; but through the mercy of God in whose hands
their lives were their enemies did not succeed in this.
David W. Patten one of the Twelve Apostles
of the Church of Latter-day Saints was one of the martyrs of
the persecution in Missouri in the winter of 1838. David
was one of the first Twelve chosen to bear the Keys of the
Latter-day Kingdom. He died strong in the faith that
he had boldy declared for the last seven years.
Sunday the I held a council in
the morning with Elders Brigham Young and John Taylor
of the Twelve. We then met with the Church in Quincy
Brigham took the lead of the meeting.
There was a letter read from the committee
in Far West praying the brethren in Quincy to send teams
and money for the removing of fifty families from Far
West to this place. There was a contribution taken up
for this purpose of about 50 dollars and a number of teams
to go to the releif of the Saints in Far West.
The next day I spent in visiting the Saints
in Quincy. I called upon the family of brother Lyman Wight
who was still in prison with Joseph Hyrum and others in Liberty Clay Co. Missouri. I here obtained my trunk which
had been in the hands of sister Wight for several years
On this day I also visited a number of
families who had camped on the bank of the river. They
were in a suffering condition in cold rain and mud and
some suffered for the want of food as well.
On the I returned to Rochester and on
the of the next month—April, I settled my family in
total extermination of Saints from the State.
To carry out these vile and inhuman measures he sent
a General after his own heart to execute his orders forthwith and
this was the cause of our people leaving the State of Missouri and
coming to Quincy.
The whole city of the Saints F Far West had
to surrender to the militia and the Presidency with about sixty
others were cast into prison and chains. They were all delivered
at the time of which I write excepting eleven persons.
The mob used every exertion to take the life of
Joseph and others; but through the mercy of God in whose hands
their lives were their enemies did not succeed in this.
David W. Patten one of the Twelve Apostles
of the Church of Latter-day Saints was one of the martyrs of
the persecution in Missouri in the winter of 1838. David
was one of the first Twelve chosen to bear the Keys of the
Latter-day Kingdom. He died strong in the faith that
he had boldy declared for the last seven years.
Sunday the I held a council in
the morning with Elders Brigham Young and John Taylor
of the Twelve. We then met with the Church in Quincy
Brigham took the lead of the meeting.
There was a letter read from the committee
in Far West praying the brethren in Quincy to send teams
and money for the removing of fifty families from Far
West to this place. There was a contribution taken up
for this purpose of about 50 dollars and a number of teams
to go to the releif of the Saints in Far West.
The next day I spent in visiting the Saints
in Quincy. I called upon the family of brother Lyman Wight
who was still in prison with Joseph Hyrum and others in
Liberty Clay Co. Missouri. I here obtained my trunk which
had been in the hands of sister Wight for several years
On this day I also visited a number of
families who had camped on the bank of the river. They
were in a suffering condition in cold rain and mud and
some suffered for the want of food as well.
On the I returned to Rochester and on
the of the next month—April, I settled my family in
