April 12, 1839

Millport, Missouri
Joseph Smith and other prisoners left the home of Judge Josiah Morin en route to Boone County with an escort of five guards.
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 3:319
"Not Every Missourian Was a Bad Guy," Alexander L. Baugh, Mormon Historical Studies 2:1
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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