Quorums of the Seventy and Others, Minutes, and JS, Discourse, , Adams Co., IL, 1–2 June 1839. Version copied [ca. 1 June 1839] in Quorums of the Seventy, “Book of Records,” pp. 79–84; handwriting of ; First Council of the Seventy Records, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Discourse, 1 June 1839.
such a time saying that if they did not cross the river St Lawrence then they could not get into the states and that in addition to threatning to knock down elder Christopher Merkley on their passage up Lake Ontario; he publickly declard that the in made nothing of knocking down one another This last charge was substantiated by the written testimony of elder . Most of the charge testified to the truth of and refered to , John and George Beckstead Robert Burton and for testimony for the substantiation of the remainder
A charge having been prefered by elder Eller Stoker against elder for lying and defrauding some time before and the [p. 82]