Testimonies

Subject

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Scope Note: Solemn declarations, written or verbal; usually made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer or authorized public official, then reduced to writing for the record.

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Johnson, Peter E., 1920 August

Item — Box 8: Series 9; Series 10 [Barcode: 31197230220631], Folder: 4

Identifier: MSS 823 Series 9

Dates: 1920 August

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / M. Wilford Poulson papers / Mormon Americana Acquisitions (not original manuscripts), A-M

Judge William A. Carter deposition, 1860 May 31

Item — Folder 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230241835], item: 2

Identifier: MSS SC 490 Series 2

Scope and Contents note

This document contains a deposition testimony of Patrick J. Higgins given before Judge Carter in the case of the People of Utah vs. Jos. Pendergrass, McIntosh, Harvey Riley, and Thomas Maloney regarding the killing of one Samuel Bennett in Echo Canyon while enroute from Camp Floyd. No date was given for the crime.

Dates: Other: 1860 May 31

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William A. Carter papers / Collection of William A. Carter materials

LDS : USLC mission testimonies as recorded by Carole Walch, 1993-1995

File — Carton 11: [Barcode: 31197239282152], Folder: 11

Identifier: MSS 9485

Dates: 1993-1995

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Victor Walch papers

LDS : USLC mission testimonies as recorded by Carole Walch, 1993-1995

File — Carton 11: [Barcode: 31197239282152], Folder: 12-13

Identifier: MSS 9485

Dates: 1993-1995

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Victor Walch papers

Leany family history as written from memory by William Leany

File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230323310]

Identifier: MSS SC 2411

Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography, will, and testimony to the veracity of the Mormon Church. Also included are photocopies and typescripts of these items. Leany was a convert to the Mormon Church who moved to Missouri in 1836. He was present at the Haun's Mill Massacre. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois and later migrated to Utah living in Parowan and Harrisburg.

Dates: 1888-1891

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Margaret Cooper West testimony of conversion to principles of polygamy, date of production unidentified

Item — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230232339], Folder: 4

Identifier: MSS 503 Series 1 Item 21

Dates: date of production unidentified

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Jesse Nathaniel Smith papers / Jesse Nathaniel Smith collection / Jesse Nathaniel Smith certificates, mementos and miscellany

Mormon War papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS FM 7

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed copies of original joint legislative committee journals (1838-1839), legislative proceedings (1838-1841), correspondence and orders (1838-1839), evidence given at the court of inquiry held in November 1838 to investigate Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and others for high treason, and certificates dealing with indictments against Mormons (1841) pertaining to the Mormon disturbances in Missouri (1838-1841). The film is 16 mm. and 35 mm. and is photonegative.

Dates: 1838-1841

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections