December 14, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith's delegation at Springfield, Illinois, made an affidavit that he was in Illinois on May 6, the day of the assassination attempt of former Missouri Governor Lilburn W. Boggs.
Sources:
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 5:204-5
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
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