Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Utah
Jacob Forney
1798–1872
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Utah
Forney was ordered in 1858 to recover the surviving children and reported in 1859 that sixteen had been collected the previous July and a seventeenth the following April. He established that none of them had ever lived among the Indians — they had been carried from the field to Jacob Hamblin's house the same evening and parcelled out among Mormon families. He began his inquiry expecting to exonerate the whites and concluded instead that whites had directed the affair.
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Jacob Forney recovers the seventeen children
Acting on instructions from Washington, Forney collected sixteen surviving children in July 1858 and the seventeenth in April 1859. He reported that none of them had lived among Indians at all: they had been taken from the field the evening of the massacre, driven in a wagon to Hamblin's house by Lee and Daniel Tullis, and distributed the next day among Mormon families at Cedar City, Harmony and Santa Clara.
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Report of Jacob Forney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, on the Mountain Meadows massacre
Jacob Forney
Contemporary federal findings on the number killed, the seventeen survivors, and that the children never lived among the Indians.
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