| 295 that the above is a true copy of the mittimus to me, directed in the cases therein named.
"Samuel Hadley, Jailer.
"By Samuel Tillery, Deputy Jailer.
"Clay County, Missouri." 4
-Millennial Star, vol. 16, p. 566.
Lyman Wight's account as recorded in his journal is as follows:-
"November 1. This morning we were ordered by General Wilson to make ready to go to Jackson County, and informed by him that we were delivered into his charge, that he had three hundred good soldiers, and that he would guarantee that we should be well treated; which promise he fulfilled to the very letter. We were then placed in a wagon, marched seventeen miles to Crooked River, and camped for the night.
"2d. To-day we marched on and crossed the Missouri River at Williams' Ferry and camped on the other side for the night.
"3d. We now found ourselves in Jackson County, from which we were driven in 1833, about thirteen miles from Independence. Several times in the course of this day we were exhibited as a public show, having been carried in a covered wagon. But I have it to say that with one exception we were treated in the most genteel manner. We landed at Independence about three o'clock p. m. and were placed in a huge log house on the north side of the public square, with a small guard about us. We had many respectable visitors this evening, together with some few of the offscouring of the earth. We had food prepared for and brought to us. We rested very comfortably through the night.
"4th. This day we were at liberty to go where we pleased about through the town. We walked down to the Temple Lot, in company with a gentleman by the name of Collins. He said he presumed the place did not look as it would had
4 This purported mittimus was not made out, however, until the March following. So they were over three months in jail without process.
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