Mormon History, Sept 16 [1845]

[Brigham Young Journal] I met at Dr Richards office in council to prepare a message for Col. Backenstos which we sent by the hand of Mr Gridley. I proposed to the council that we seek peace for the present by agreeing with the mob to have in the spring the councel agreed to it. we then appointed bro Geo. Miller to see all that part of the city north of Knight St guarded & C. C. Rich to see all south guarded we agreed to put all the carpenters to work in the Temple and all others to getting in the families grain &c of the brethren out also said to the brethren put a stop to the mobs burning your property shoot the first man who attempts we also agreed to appoint agents to confer with the leading Catholic priests and sell our property to them. Uncle John Smith stated before the council that Wm-.. Smith said, he was agoing East this fall and this people should know before spring who their leader was by God. -- In the afternoon Mr Gridley returned Col. Backinstos, the mob having
persued the col and he with two other men resisting one of the mob was killed a man by the name of Franklin World, (to be cosred) a posse commatitus of upwards of one hundred men was then surmmoned and sent with the col. to quell the mob, and all necessary preparations made to defend the city in case of an emergency Sept 16 [1845]

[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']