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Identifier: mormonismunveile00lee (find matches)
Title: Mormonism unveiled; including the remarkable life and confessions of the late Mormon bishop
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Lee, John Doyle, 1812-1877 Bishop, William W. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Lee, John Doyle, 1812-1877 Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 Mormon Church Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857
Publisher: St. Louis, Moffat publishing company Cleveland Ohio, C. C. Wick & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to me that hecarries himself straight. I then settled up my business at the winter quarters. Presi-dent Young was indebted to the firm S285 ; of course he had notthe money to settle the account, and he was just starting to lookout a resting place for the Saints. His first adopted son, A. P.Rockwood, our salesman, could not spare a dollar to help hisFather, Brigham Young, so the loss of that sum of money fellon me. I told my adopted father, Brigham Young, that he was wel-come to the $285. Before he left for the new land of promise, hesaid to me, My son John, what shall I do for you? I said, Select me an inheritance when you find the resting-place. *I will remember you. May Heaven bless you. I blessyou. Be a good boy. Keep an account of how each man, un-der your charge, occupies his time, while I am gone. He then said I was to have half of all the improvements thatwere made, and half of the crop that was raised by the compa*^that I fitted out with teams, seed and provisions. The nioBM^
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oe* uio UI oz< Q < z< 5 z LIFE OF JOHN D. LEE. 203 company started April 1st, 1847. We moved to our new loca-tion, and called it Summer Quarters. We laid out a fort to pro-tect us from the Indians, as they were troublesome. We thenlaid off our land. I found out that if I obeyed orders, it wouldrequire all the cleared land for my family, so I took and laid offthree acres for each family—there were thirty-seven families—for gardens, and I took the balance. Although I had given eachfamily three times as much land, for a garden and truck-patch,as Brigham Young had ordered, still the people found a greatdeal of fault with me. Mrs. Armstrong had some money left,and she told me to take it, and send for supplies and seed-corn.I did take it, and sent four teams to Missouri for seed-corn andprovisions, and then put all hands to work building the fort, put-ting the land in order for the-crop, etc. About the first of May,thirty-eight warriors of the Oto tribe came to our camp. Theywe

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