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Source: Church History Vol. 2 Chapter 20 Page: 439 (~1840)

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439 "QUINCY, Illinois, March 17,1840.

"This is to certify that I was a citizen, resident of Caldwell County, Missouri, at the time Governor Boggs' exterminating order was issued, and that I was quartered on by the mob militia without my leave or consent at different times, and at one time by William Mann, Hiram Comstock, and brother, who professed to be the captain; also Robert White; and that I was at the murder at Haun's mill, and was wounded; and that I was driven from the State, to my inconvenience, and deprived of my freedom, as well as to my loss of at least four hundred dollars.

"JACOB FOUTS.

"Sworn to before C. M. Woods, Clerk Circuit."

-Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 648.

"I do certify that I was a resident of Caldwell County, in the State of Missouri, in the year of our Lord 1838, and owned land to a considerable amount, building lots, etc., in the village of Far West; and in consequence of mobocracy, together with Governor Boggs' exterminating order, was compelled to leave the State under great sacrifice of real and personal property, which has reduced and left myself and family in a state of poverty, with a delicate state of health, in an advanced stage of life. Furthermore this deponent saith not.

"Given under my hand at Quincy, Illinois, March 17,1840.

"F. G. WILLIAMS.

"Sworn to before C. M. Woods, Clerk, Adams County, Illinois."

-Millennial Star, vol. 17, p. 648.

"QUINCY, Illinois, Adams County, March 18, 1840.

"I, Jacob Shumaker, do certify that I went back to the State of Missouri about the first of October last, with the calculation to live with my family, but finding it impossible, as the mob surrounded my house and threatened me with my life-say to the amount of twenty or thirty of them; and whilst they were quarreling about me, what they should do and in what way they should dispose of me, I crept out of the back window and made my escape; and leaving my family to their most scandalous abuses, my

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