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Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs. Missouri Executive Order 44 (known as the Mormon Extermination Order) was a state executive order issued by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838, in response to the Battle of Crooked River.
The 1838 Mormon War, also known as the Missouri Mormon War, was a conflict between Mormons (Latter Day Saints) and other residents of northwestern Missouri from August 6, to November 1, 1838. Founded in upstate New York in 1830, the Latter Day Saint movement rapidly expanded in Missouri through organized migration.
In consequence of the reports of the battle, the burning out of ex-Mormon 'apostates' by the Danites, the attack on non-Mormons in Caldwell County, the sacking of Gallatin by the Mormons, and their reported plans to burn Richmond and Liberty, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44, also known as the "Extermination ...
Missouri: 1838 Mormon War: 22 Mormons (including 17 at Haun's Mill), 1 non-Mormon Also known as the Missouri Mormon War. Included the events of the Haun's Mill Massacre, Battle of Crooked River, and Siege of DeWitt. [28] [29] 1844–46 Nauvoo, Illinois: Mormon War in Illinois ~10 Mormons (including the Death of Joseph Smith & Hyrum Smith)
Lilburn Williams Boggs (December 14, 1796 – March 14, 1860) [1] was the sixth Governor of Missouri, from 1836 to 1840.He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", issued in response to the ongoing conflict between church members and other settlers of Missouri.
The Battle of Crooked River was a skirmish that occurred on October 25, 1838, and was a major escalator of the 1838 Mormon War.A Mormon rescue party, led by David W. Patten, formed to free three Mormon captives taken from Caldwell County the day prior, clashed with a Ray County militia company commanded by Samuel Bogart southeast of Elmira, Missouri.
The Missouri Supreme Court set David Hosier’s execution date for June 11. On April 2, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office requested a date be set for Christopher Collings.
In 1838, Lilburn W. Boggs issued the Extermination Order to drive Mormons from the state, and for a time there was no organized Church presence here. Later in the 1840s, members of the Church, both immigrants from Britain and migrants from Nauvoo, Illinois moved to St. Louis, Missouri and a branch was organized there in 1844.