| 338 eighty years. My age is ninety or a little past. I was ninety years old the ninth day of last month.
"I have held a good many offices first and last in Jackson County. The first office was before this county was organized as a county. I was one of its executive officers, commonly called a constable. That was the first office I held; that was in 1826. I held the office of sheriff in this county in 1833. The term was two years; I was elected for two terms, and held the office four years altogether.
"During my term of office is when the Mormons were driven from Jackson County, Missouri. I was not in that affair in any way; the first movement that was made, was when they tore down the printing office of the Mormon people. When I came in town one morning I saw a crowd of men standing by the courthouse; saw that one of them had a rope in his hand. When I got up about half way to them, two men came up to meet me; said they had some business back at the tavern. They took me back in a room there, and one of them went out and locked the door after him, and left me with the other one, and I know nothing about what was going on outside until I got out of there.
"They had torn down the printing office, and dispersed before I got out to see what was being done. After I was let out of the house all was quiet; everything had quieted down, and was civil enough after I got out. I cannot say what had been done by the mob or the citizens while I was in that room. I learned afterwards that they had demolished the printing office, for they seemed to think that was the seat of trouble, and they had demolished it."-Plaintiff's Abstract, pp. 287, 288.
John Corrill, also one of the expelled citizens of Jackson County, wrote a letter in December, 1833, concerning the trouble, which is published in the Evening and Morning Star, (pages 246-250)..
"Liberty, Clay County, Missouri,
"December, 1833.
"Brother O Cowdery:-Inasmuch as many reports have gone abroad respecting the affairs of the church in these
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