June 7, 1841
En route to Monmouth, Illinois
Joseph Smith started very early for his court hearing in Monmouth, Illinois, a seventy-five-mile journey, accompanied by Sheriff Thomas King, the arresting officer from Adams County.
Sources:
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 4:365-66
Times and Seasons 2:447-49
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
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