Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict
Edited by Clark V. Johnson
Volume Sixteen in the Religious Studies Center Monograph Series
Copyright 1992 by Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University.
Chapter 6 INDIVIDUAL AFFIDAVITS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES A-L
Page 430 and 431
CLAUSON, Moses
I Moses Clauson & family left the State of Newyork in the Spring of 1836 & moved to the State of Missourie the following Summer & in the month of Dec. 1836 I entered one hundred & twenty acres of Congress Land in the County of Caldwell State of Missouri I then Lived in peace untill the Summer of 1838 the mob then a rose & Commenced there deprodations uppon the in habit[s] of Caldwell & there was one Continuel Scene of war until his Excelency the Governor of Misso[u]ri Issued an order to Exterminate the _Mormons_ Church of Jesus Christ of [Lat]ter-day Saints or driv[e] them from the State _we ware_ the Militia was then ordered out to considerable amount they encampd near our town & we ware obliege to give up our guns & took us prisners of war the Militia quartered in our town & in our houses they killed our Cattle our hogs & Sheep fed our Corn plunderd our houses Stole our property _killed of the mormons_ & burned up our timber & fence & our houses the General Mr Clark then Cald _the Mormons_ us together & Selected forty Seven of _the mormons_ us of which I was one we ware then thrust in prison in a Storehouse & kept till Morning then we ware taken to richmond the distine of about 32 miles then thrust in an open Courthouse where we Suferd with hunger & Cold we ware Charged with evry high Crime they then put us on trial & Continued to try us for about fifteen day in Succesion they then liberated about 23 & Continued to try the rest Some few days more thy then liberated five more of which I was a moung the Latter we ware _then_ taken under the Militia order & tried under the Sivil Laws I was obliege to Leave the State I was obliage to Sell my Land at a Low rate haveing been obliage at Some price to raise funds to move with of which I & family Sufferd verry Severly the amount of Loss is $500.00[.] the Land that I entered Lying in Sectians 30 & 31 Township Fifty Six range twenty Eight north of the base Line & west of the fifth principle meridian
Moses Clauson
[Sworn to before A. Brown, J.P. Pike Co.,IL, 10 Jan 1840.]
Chapter 7 THE SCROLL PETITION
(Signed by 3,419 people living in Hancock Co., Illinois, dated at Nauvoo, November 28th 1843.)
Page 608
William H. Clawson, Moses Clauson,...Walace Clauson,...George Clauson,...Moroni Clauson,
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Eunice Clauson, Cornelia Clauson,...Jane Clauson,
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Ebenezer Clauson,
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Amanda Clauson,...Moses Clauson,
NOTE: The last "Moses Clauson" is likely "Jr" rather than a duplicate signiture. All of Moses Clauson's family are included in the petition by the above assumption. The youngest child was less than five years old so the signiture was likely not hers, others probably did not sign their own names either. The oldest daughter Eunice was married to Lorenzo Jackson in 1840 and living in Pike Co., Illinois in 1843 so her signiture is suspect. Cornelia, the wife of Moses Clauson, signed the deed for her father's inheritance with an X shortly after she was married. Cornelia may have learned to read and write or at least write her name since then but that is unknown.
Neil R. Clawson
NOTE: The underscores in this document indicate where the original document had words crossed out.
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