Apostle, Danite captain
David W. Patten
1799–1838
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Violence and the Mormon Conflict
Apostle, Danite captain
Known by the Danite code name "Captain Fearnaught," Patten commanded the company that took and burned Gallatin on 18 October 1838, and led the roughly sixty men who attacked Samuel Bogart's state militia detachment at Crooked River a week later. He was mortally wounded in that fight — the act that turned a local conflict into resistance against the state of Missouri.
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Mormon raids on Gallatin, Millport and Grindstone Fork
Companies under David Patten, Lyman Wight and Seymour Brunson struck three Daviess County settlements, emptying Jacob Stollings's store at Gallatin, driving off stock and burning buildings. Goods were carried to the bishop's storehouse at Adam-ondi-Ahman. Judge Austin King reported to Boggs that there was not a citizen left in Daviess except Mormons.
The Battle of Crooked Riverhinge
Believing a mob had seized three Latter-day Saint prisoners, about sixty men under David Patten rode into Ray County and attacked what proved to be a detachment of state militia under Samuel Bogart. One Missourian and three Mormons died, Patten among them. Rumour carried the news to Jefferson City as a massacre of fifty or sixty Missourians.
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