Mormon History, Monday Sept 22nd [1845]

[Brigham Young Journal] this morning the council convened and met a delegation from McDonough co, learned their business was to ascertain if we determined to leave in the spring according to our proposition to Williams, to which we replied we were under no obligtions on those propositions as Williams had not acceeded to them. But we proposed that we would leave in case the people of the several counties would unite and give their aid & influence in assisting us to dispose of our property so as to enable us to do so. And to this end appointed A. W. Babbit D. S. Wells & E. A. Bedell Esqs a committee to attend a meeting of the citizens at Mc Comb to certify that if the people would use their influence to assist us to dispose of our property and to have all vexations Lawsuits stayed so we could spend our time in preparing to remove that we would quit these parts a go so far away that our peculiar tenits of religion need interfeers with no one--- Monday Sept 22nd [1845]

[source: Brigham Young Journal # 4 in the handwriting of: William Clayton, Evan Greene, John D. Lee, Willard Richards. First person account kept by others. 'Lieut. Genl Brigham Young's Journal 1844']