Portrait of Thomas B. Marsh

President of the Twelve, then affiant

Thomas B. Marsh

1799–1866

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Violence and the Mormon Conflict

President of the Twelve, then affiant

Marsh left the church on 19 October 1838, the day after Gallatin burned, and five days later swore an affidavit describing the Danite organization, the burning of Gallatin, a "destroying company," and Smith's alleged ambition to "take the State." Orson Hyde attested it. The affidavit reached Boggs and was among the documents that produced the extermination order.

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19–24 October 1838

Marsh and Hyde leave; Marsh swears an affidavit

Thomas B. Marsh, president of the Twelve, and Orson Hyde left the church the day after Gallatin burned. On 24 October Marsh swore an affidavit at Richmond describing the Danites, a 'destroying company,' the burning of Gallatin, and Smith's alleged intention to take the state and ultimately the world. Hyde attested it.

Disputed Latter-day Saints then and since treated the affidavit as the embittered exaggeration of an apostate; Marsh returned to the church in 1857 and said he had had a beam in his own eye.
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