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Bristol (England) -- History -- Sources

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Subject Source: Lcnaf

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Baldwin Harvey Watts diary and prison papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230232347]
Identifier: MSS 486
Scope and Contents Handwritten diary and prison records. Watts kept the diary while serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Bristol, England, area in 1875. Also included are records relating to Watts' incarceration in the Utah prison for polygamy in 1888. Watts compiled a list of 668 men imprisoned for polygamy from 1884 to 1889. He included the date of sentencing, the length of the sentence, and the age of the prisoners. He also lists each man's home town. Also...
Dates: 1875-1889
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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