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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Lillburn W. Boggs letters received

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325661]
Identifier: MSS SC 2698
Scope and Contents Photographs of a handwritten and signed letters addressed to Lilburn W. Boggs and dated 22 and 24 July 1840. One of the items is from Chauncey Durkus denying reports that he has been involved in arresting Mormons in Illinois and taking them back to Missouri. The veracity of his statements was confirmed by the signatures of 37 residents of Lewis County, Missouri. The other item was signed by 11 residents of Lewis County claiming that persons; who went to Nauvoo, Illinois, to recover stolen...
Dates: 1840 July 24; 1840 July 22
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Lillburn W. Boggs letters received

George Miller letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230307925]
Identifier: MSS SC 977
Scope and Contents

Letter to Thomas Reynolds, Governor of Missouri, dated 4 Sept. 1842. The missive is in defense of Joseph Smith (1801-1844) in any implication in the assassination attempt on Governor Lilburn Boggs of Missouri.

Dates: 1842 September 4
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / George Miller letter

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