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Minutes from excommunication of Orson Pratt

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Identifier: MSS 6954
Scope and Contents

The Orson Pratt, Jr. excommunication minutes describe the court proceedings in the trial of Orson Pratt, Jr. His trial, held on September 18, 1864, was a public meeting held in the bowery in St. George, Utah, to determine whether Pratt should retain his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a result of the trial, Pratt was excommunicated. The single leaf of paper holds roughly ninety-nine lines of handwritten material from the trial.

Dates: 1864
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Minutes from excommunication of Orson Pratt

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