Affidavits
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
The last testimony of Martin Harris
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232498862]
Identifier: MSS 236
Scope and Contents
Typewritten statement with handwritten corrections. The item was notarized. Homer affirms that he met Martin Harris (1783-1875) in 1869 when returning from a mission for the Mormon Church. He recounts the conversation, much of it word for word, between him and Harris at that time. He also told the second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young (1801-1877), about this incident. Homer also tells, again verbatim, what Harris said on his death bed in 1875. Homer states that on each...
Dates:
1928
National Archives material on the persecutions of the Church in Missouri
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197227330484]
Identifier: MSS 942
Abstract
Material pertaining to the Missouri persecutions of LDS Church members in 1839. Material is as found at the National Archives.
Dates:
1838-1842
Records on Mormon polygamy
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230319045]
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
Joseph F. Smith letter and affidavit
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2489
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letter dated 7 Oct. 1889. The item was addressed to Samuel Russel. Smith had asked Russell to take charge of the sawmill connected with the Hawaiian colony in Skull Valley, Utah and expresses regret that Russell turned him down. Smith said, "I had no special manifestations of the Spirit about it." Also included is a typewritten affidavit dated 6 June 1906 and signed by Smith stating that he "had been duly elected to the office of President and Director of the...
Dates:
1906 June 6; 1889 October 7