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Date: November 26, 2014 12:43PM
Good post Randy. I had studied the 7 volume History of the Church by B. H. Roberts when I was a TBM. Nothing in those volumes prepared me for the truth I found in actual Missouri documents. Here is one example:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/findingaids/miscMormRecs/rg005_01/B1F37_18380922.pdfI, Philip Covington, an acting
justice of the peace, within and for said County, do
certify that on the 18th inst. that one hundred
or more Mormons marched to Gallatin , and
drove the Citizens from said place, and then robbed
the store and Post Office, and burned said store
and office.
On the 20th of this inst. 25 armed
Mormons came to my house, and gave me
orders to leave the county against next
morning, or they would be upon me and my
family – myself with many other Citizens have
left the County – They are now robbing and
burning the dwellings of the defenceless Citizens.
Given under my hand this 22nd
day of September 1838-
Philip Covington J.P. SS