June 18, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois
Truman Gillett Jr. gives an affidavit that William Law had been involved in a plot to abduct Joseph Smith in June 1842, but Gillett had discounted the tale until learning of Law's later misdeeds.
Sources:
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
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