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Records on Mormon polygamy
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2093
Scope and Contents
Handwritten sections of a document on Mormon polygamy compiled and written by an unknown author. The materials are fragments from a document that included pages numbered at least to 196 pages. The item includes an analysis of Mormon polygamy and copies of affidavits relating to the practice of polygamy taken in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844.
Dates:
1844-1870
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Smith affidavit
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1021
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten and signed statement. Smith stated that he was "elected Sole Trustee" of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for life. The item was notarized in Nauvoo, Illinois, for Hancock County.
Dates:
1841
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections