| 432 "QUINCY Illinois, 16th March, 1840.
"This is to certify that I, Henry Root, am and was a citizen of De Witt, Carroll County, Missouri, at the time the persecutions (known by the name of the 'Mormon War') commenced and terminated between the citizens of said State of Missouri and the Mormons; that in the fall of 1838, in the month of September, a mob (under no regular authority) headed by William W. Austin, Sr., consisting of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty men, came into De Witt and ordered the Mormons to leave that place within ten days from that time; that if they did not leave they would be driven from there by force.
"The Mormons did not leave; the appointed time came, and the mob came, armed and equipped for war. The Mormon citizens petitioned to the Governor of the State, but no relief came. They sent to the General of that brigade, who ordered the militia to repair to De Witt to disperse the mob. On the arrival of the militia, Brigadier-General Parks told me the Mormons had better leave their property and go off, as his men were prejudiced against them, and he could do them no good nor relieve them. With that the Mormons left.
"HENRY ROOT.
"Sworn to before C. M. Woods, Clerk of Circuit Court, Adams County, Illinois."
-Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 630.
"QUINCY, Illinois, March 16,1840.
"I, Joseph Clark, certify that I was a citizen of the State of Missouri in 1838; and when peaceably traveling the highway I was shot at twice by Governor Boggs' exterminating militia; commanded by Major-General John Clark.
"JOSEPH CLARK.
"Sworn to before C. M. Woods, Clerk of Circuit Court, Adams County, Illinois."
-Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 630.
"QUINCY, Illinois, March 16, 1840.
"This is to certify that I, Thomas D. Casper, was a resident of the State of Missouri in the year 1838. I was not a
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