Carthage Conspiracy by Dallin H Oaks

Author:Dallin H Oaks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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1. Attachment in court files, People v. Levi Williams; Circuit Court Record, 276.

2. Circuit Court Record, 260, 276; copy of Ford subpoena in case file, People v. Levi Williams; “Minutes of Trial,” 37.

3. Missouri Republican, May 27, 1845.

4. Watt Manuscript, 5. The opening arguments are also described briefly in “Minutes of Trial,” 37.

5. Watt Manuscript, 6.

6. Ibid., 7.

7. Ibid., 7-8.

8. Ibid., 9.

9. Deputy sheriff's May 21, 1845, certification on attachment for Henry Matthews, in case file, People v. Levi Williams.

10. Baxter, Browning, 11, 51, 288; Doyle, “Josiah Lamborn,” 185-200.

11. People v. Brennan, 15 Illinois Reports 511, 517 (1854).

12. “Minutes of Trial,” 37.

13. Watt Manuscript, 12; accord, “Minutes of Trial,” 38.

14. Watt Manuscript, 11-12; “Documents,” 1.

15. John Peyton owned a farm about three miles south of Warsaw. One of the earliest settlers in the county, he had come from Kentucky in 1830. His 2,500 acres made him one of the largest landowners in the county. He was also to become one of the first township supervisors of his area, and to be elected again and again to that position. Gregg, History of Hancock County, 648-49, 671; Hancock County Census, 1850, p. 442.

George Walker was also an early settler; he had come to Hancock County from Kentucky in 1833 with his wife and four children, settling on a farm about five miles southeast of Warsaw. The township of Walker was named for him. An ordained Baptist minister, he erected a log church building on his farm at his own expense. At the time of the trial he was an elected justice of the peace, and a few months after the trial he was the unanimously elected candidate for a three-year term as county commissioner. A Democrat, Walker was later elected to two terms in the legislature. Thomas Gregg, county historian, says Walker was “a man of deep religious convictions [and] of sterling integrity” (Gregg, History of Hancock County, 350, 450, 971-72; Scofield, History of Hancock County, 1102; Election Returns, 56:64; Hancock County Census, 1850, p. 295-A).

16. Since there were no completed railroads in Hancock County in 1845, the “railroad shanties” that figure prominently in this narrative were probably structures left over from construction work on the railroad that was to run from Peoria through Macomb to Carthage and thence to Warsaw along the Carthage-Warsaw road. Construction had been halted in 1839 due to lack of funds. Cochran, History of Hancock County, 584.

17. Watt Manuscript, 14.

18. Ibid., 13; accord, “Minutes of Trial,” 39; “Documents,” 2.

19. “Minutes of Trial,” 39; accord, Watt Manuscript, 15.

20. Watt Manuscript, 13.

21. Ibid., 14-15; accord, “Minutes of Trial,” 39.

22. Watt Manuscript, 16-17; accord, “Documents,” 3; “Minutes of Trial,” 39.

23. Smith, History of the Church, VI, 595.

24. Ibid., 602.

25. Watt Manuscript, 18; “Documents,” 3-4; “Minutes of Trial,” 41.

26. “Minutes of Trial,” 41; accord, Watt Manuscript, 18-19.

27. “Documents,” 3; accord, “Minutes of Trial,” 41; Watt Manuscript, 17-19.

28. “Minutes of Trial,” 41; accord, Watt Manuscript, 19.

29. Hay, “The Mormon Prophet's Tragedy,” 669, 675. John Hay had grown up in Warsaw. His father, Charles Hay, was the surgeon of Colonel Levi Williams's regiment of militia.

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