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July 30, 1875 deposition of Brigham Young
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Territory of Utah Beaver County S. S.
In the Second Judicial District Court of the Territory of Utah Beaver County
Indictment for Murder Sep 16 1857.
The People &c vs. John D. Lee, Wm. H. Dame Isaac C. Haight, et al
Questions to be propounded to Brigham Young, on his examination as a Witness for the Defence in the case of John D. Lee and others, on trial at Beaver City this 30th of July 1875.
1st State your age, the present condition of your health, and whether in its condition you could travel to attend in person at Beaver the Court now sitting there, if not, state why not?
2nd What Offices either Ecclesiastical, Civil or Military did you hold in the year 1857?
Copy of extract of January 6, 1858 letter from Brigham Young as Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs to James W. Denver, Commissioner of Indian Affairs
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the native tribes may become extinguished by a uniform consistent humane and conciliating course of superior acts by those who profess superior attainments.
Respectfully I have the honor to remain Your obedient Servant
(Signed) Brigham Young Gov. & Supt of Ind Affairs UT
Territory of Utah County of Salt Lake S.S.
I James Jack a Notary Public in and for said County, certify that I have carefully compared the foregoing document with an impression taken of the original, and do hereby certify that the same is a true and correct copy thereof.
I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the signature of Brigham Young and hereby testify that the signature to the letter of which this is a copy is his genuine signature.
I witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal at my office in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1876
James Jack Notary Public for Salt Lake County U.T.
Copy of Governor's Proclamation dated originally issued September 15, 1857
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.Given under my hand and seal at Great Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah, this fifteenth day of September, A.D. Eighteen hundred and fifty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty second
(Signed) Brigham Young
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Governors' Proclamation Sept. 15, 1857
No 4
Filed Sept. 20, 1876 James R. Wilkins Clerk
July 30, 1875 deposition of Brigham Young (same as that filed on August 2, 1875)
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and life for me to travel to Beaver at this present time. I am, and have been for some time an invalid.
2nd
What offices either Ecclesiastical, Civil or Military did you hold in the year 1857?
Answer
He saith:-
I was the Governer of this Territory and ex-officio Superintendent of Indian affairs, and the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints during the year 1857.
3rd
State the condition of affairs between the Territory of Utah and the Federal Government in the summer and fall of 1857?
Answer
He saith:-
In May or June 1857 the United States mails for Utah were stopped by the Government,-all communication by mail was cut off. An Army of the United States was en route for Utah with the ostensible design of destroying the Latter day Saints, according to the reports that reached us from the East.
4th
Were there any United States Judges here during the summer and fall of 1857?
Answer
He saith:-
To the best of my recollection there was no United States Judge here in the latter part of 1857.
5th
State what you know about trains, of
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emigrants passing through the Territory to the West and particularly about a company from Arkansas, en route for California, passing through this City in the summer or fall of 1857?
Answer
He saith:-
As usual emigrant trains were passing through our Territory for the West. I heard it rumored that a company from Arkansas en route to California had passed through the City.
6th
Was this, Arkansas company of emigrants ordered away from Salt Lake City by yourself, or any one in authority under you?
Answer
He saith:-
No not that I know of - I never heard of any such thing, and certainly no such order was given my the then acting Governor.
7th
Was any counsel or instructions by any person to the citizens of Utah not to sell grain to or trade with the emigrant trains passing through Utah at that time, if so what were those instructions? and counsel?
Answer
He saith:-
Yes, - Counsel and advice was given to the citizens not to sell grain to the emigrants to feed their stock; but to let them have sufficient for themselves if they were out. The simple reason for this was that for several years our crops had been short
