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Source: Church History Vol. 2 Chapter 20 Page: 427 (~1840)

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427 myself and family in Missouri, I fled to Illinois for safety.

"T. ALVORD.

"Sworn to before D. W. Kilbourn, J. P."

-Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 581.

"MONTROSE Lee County, Iowa, January 7,1840.

"I hereby certify, that sometime in the month of October, 1838, an armed force collected in the County of Carroll, near De Witt, and in open daylight drove a man by the name of Humphrey out of his house, and set fire to it and burnt it to ashes, and then sent an express ordering all the 'Mormons' to leave the place as soon as the next day. The next day they sent another express ordering them to leave in six hours, or they would be massacred upon the ground. They also fired their guns at different persons traveling the road near the town. The 'Mormons' were at length compelled to leave their possessions, and all removed to Caldwell, consisting of seventy and perhaps one hundred families, many of whom were in want of the sustenance of life, sick, and some died upon the way.

"About two weeks after this another armed force invaded Far West, took my gun, and compelled me to sign away my property, both real and personal, and leave the State forthwith.

"WILLIAM HAWK.

"Sworn to before D. W. Kilbourn, J. P."

-Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 581.

"MONTROSE, Lee County, Iowa, January 7, 1840.

"This is to certify that I was at work on my farm on the last of October, 1838, when an armed company, under General Lucas, came and took myself and my three sons prisoners, and threw down my fences and opened my gates, and left them open, and left my crops to be destroyed, and while I was a prisoner, they declared that they had made clean work in destroying the crops as they passed through the country; and they took from me two yoke of oxen, and three horses, and two wagons, and compelled me and my sons to drive them loaded with produce of my own farm, to supply their army.

"I had in possession at the time, four hundred and eighty

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