This day personally appeared before me, Abraham Shafer, a justice of the peace within and for the aforesaid county, Alanson Ripley, Heber C. Kimball, William Huntington, Joseph B. Noble and Joseph Smith, Jun., who being duly sworn, do depose and say that the matters and things set forth in the foregoing petition, upon their own knowledge, are true in substance and in fact; and so far as set forth upon the information of others, they believe to be true. Alanson Ripley, Heber C. Kimball, William Huntington, Joseph B. Noble, Joseph Smith, Jun. Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 15th day of March, 1839. Abrham Shafer, J. P. We, the undersigned, being many of us personally acquainted with the said Joseph Smith, Jun., and the circumstances connected with his imprisonment, do concur in the petition and testimony of the above-named individuals, as most of the transactions therein mentioned we know from personal knowledge to be correctly set forth; and from information of others, believe the remainder to be true. Amasa Lyman, H. G. Sherwood, James Newberry, Cyrus Daniels, Erastus Snow, Elias Smith. {282} The same day Caleb Baldwin, Lyman Wight, Alexander McRae, and Hyrum Smith, my fellow prisoners, made each a similar petition. {283} CHAPTER XX. Sundry Movements In The Interest Of The Exiled Saints--Prophet's Letters From Liberty Prison. _Sunday, 17_.--I here give an extract from the minutes of a conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held this day in Quincy; Brigham Young by a unanimous vote was called to the chair, and Robert B. Thompson chosen clerk. _Minutes of the Conference at Quincy, Illinois_.