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Latter Day Saints -- Missouri -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Documents and corresponding affidavits, 1838-1842

 Series
Identifier: MSS 942 Series 3
Scope and Contents note

Each folder containts a document, coded HR 27A-G10.1 or something similar, relating an instance of persecution, and is accompanied by anywhere from 7 to 61 affidavits.

Dates: Other: 1838-1842

Petitions placed before Congress, 1840-1844

 Series
Identifier: MSS 942 Series 2
Scope and Contents note From the Collection:

Photocopies of handwritten and printed petitions, affidavits, and published and unpublished accounts of the persecutions suffered by the Mormons in Missouri. The materials were an attempt to get redress for their grievences, especially relating to their expulsion from Missouri in 1839. The items were acquired from the National Archives and Record Service in Washington, D.C.

Material pertaining to the Missouri persecutions of the Church, 1839. As found at the National Archives.

Dates: Other: 1840-1844

Published materials, 1839-1841

 Series
Identifier: MSS 942 Series 1
Scope and Contents note From the Collection:

Photocopies of handwritten and printed petitions, affidavits, and published and unpublished accounts of the persecutions suffered by the Mormons in Missouri. The materials were an attempt to get redress for their grievences, especially relating to their expulsion from Missouri in 1839. The items were acquired from the National Archives and Record Service in Washington, D.C.

Material pertaining to the Missouri persecutions of the Church, 1839. As found at the National Archives.

Dates: Other: 1839-1841