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Source: Church History Vol. 2 Chapter 20 Page: 424 (~1840)

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424 further certify that I was obliged to give up my duplicates to help me to a small sum to carry me out of the State. I further certify not.

"SIMEON CARTER.

"Territory of Iowa, Lee County.

"Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace for said county, this 2d day January, 1840.

"D. W. KILBOURN, J. P."

-Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 551.

"I hereby certify that in the year 1838 I was residing in Daviess County, Missouri, and while from home I was taken prisoner in Far West, by the militia, and kept under guard for six or eight days, in which time I was forced to sign a deed of trust, after which I was permitted to return home to my family in Daviess County, and found them surrounded by an armed force, with the rest of my neighbors, who were much frightened. The order from the militia was to leave the county within ten days, in which time my house was broken open and many goods taken out by the militia. We were not permitted to go from place to place without a pass from the General, and on leaving the county I received a pass as follows:-

"'I permit William F. Cahoon to pass from Daviess to Caldwell County, and there remain during the winter, and thence to pass out of the State of Missouri.

"'Signed November 10,1838.

"'REEVES, a Brigadier-General.'

"In which time both me and my family suffered much on account of cold and hunger because we were not permitted to go outside of the guard to obtain wood and provision; and according to orders of the militia, in the spring following I took my family and left the State with the loss of much property, and trouble.

"WILLIAM F. CAHOON.

"Territory of Iowa, Lee County, etc., subscribed and sworn before D. W. Kilbourn, J. P."

-Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 566.

"(January, 1840.)

"I hereby certify that General John Clark and his Aid, at

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