- Creator:
- Brattle family
- Published / Created:
- 1834-44
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2117 B737
- Image Count:
- 20
- Abstract:
- , Missouri, dated April 12, 1866, and mentions a
- Alternative Title:
- [Letters amongst the Brattle family, 1834-1844]
- Description:
- James Brattle was a member of the Illinois Grays Militia, which was ordered to protect Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, while Smith was awaiting trial in Carthage, and was present when Smith and his brother Hyrum were attacked and killed. Brattle then rode Smith's horse to the Mormon settlement at Nauvoo, to give them the news of Smith's death.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nauvoo (Ill.)
- Subject (Name):
- Brattle family, Brattle, James W, Burbank, James W, Ford, Thomas,--1800-1850, Smith, Hyrum,--1800-1844--Assassination, Smith, Joseph,--1805-1844--Assassination, and Young, Brigham,--1801-1877
- Subject (Topic):
- Mormons--Illinois
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brattle family correspondence, 1834-1866.
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