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Show State cf Utah, * -'•- { C-.ou.nty cf Summit : EG. \y\ y ' \ ' • Villi am E. KiAbal.1 of Parley's Park, County arid State afe^e- 7 said, being fir ft duly sworn deposes and sayu; that ho war: _. Lieutenant ir. one of tne (.ompsnipr of Militia cf the'.'Terr.it-;?" cf Utah, ordered out by the Governor of ..aid territory, in February 1849 or "lfif.0, to protect tne settlements of Utah County. Utah, against the Indians known as the "Utah/.Tribe", supposed to be under the leadership of an Indian hy the] pane of ¥alker,- that eaid companies left Salt Lake City on the,7th dsy cf Februar; i649 or 18a0, arrived at .Provo the following mor-iing, and found t..< Indians entrenched on the banks cf the Prove river-, that -tar i__Indi££B -^ere defeated after-1 a severe .engagement and driven r.sci. to ^.j'the ^5-pntains , abandoning some of their women and children; - -) v . i - ^.V'^..-1 b -*.. i lu j &i,t.:.y.j.Lij.v r-u.;.'c LF_. ui.t.ij vt i>_::._ j i c_.;w «___ ..__V-_ ~_J , v..' .?... ':-_ _ ^ r^,ar.-cnf;X2.1.'. captives ZLre an Indian boy and girl A o were taker: yY^HAy 'O01''1!'^"'' and brouXX UP "ny oi:e °± the .iilitia men by the na.\.e aef Zzi Jose2jAjl.urdr.c_.; th-^when the said Indian girl Secure of age she „ ... vcas-married to th1. foresaid Joseph Kurdoc-C h^ v.-hom she'had 1'o-c a'gc child renin.-., red respectivelyf Betsy, Alma, Steward and Franklir X. \E" c' jUurctOcki-iiihat said Joseph burdock's Indian ,'vi fe was known ar. 77. prenetta" 7-iurdock find belonged to t'rre Ute Tribe now presided oxkfpy .by; ChiiiaJ- Tabby and located- on the Uintah. India:.' Reservation. X !.' -- ; j:=.-u ' f C. XA'.V'X '' A.X' 77)7 -A-Af A ! ~ • ' ; ra' >:A - a.; y -•---, ; .X.vW (/Signed);- X Lieut, ^'illiari Kenry Kimball.'. y- "-. x j jN w^.F*^AA-,'*.' v i ' ^,„. ;r-' F"^. V Subsorl]>fdJ and sworn to before me this thirts-etk day >of Ma, ,A. D;XTStW. . ,..-. i '••"- (EIG1U.B) H..S. TOVj.RKXT-. "-''*' -T2LT' 'F'F'-" • -- ..-•-. ,, _ - . . -irrhririnnnrrrt-r , AOtaTV r u r u i e. # S E A L # i -,. < mmtftm. . -x '... x'v &'? Affidavit. . To whom it mav concern: I hereby certify on oath that I, Albert I-.ur.doc_., I*. t*J . uncle of Alma ...urdock, his mother now delcea'sed, being icy slot. I am an Indian enrolled on the UiritrJi Ke«f rv,-_t_ on, in v. Stain of Utal'i. Xraed) 'Alhf- X-arrioci Subscrr'bed and sworn to before- :.••• this ?,3 err of Januar; 7-r.T-.'-d ) ,T. 7.. ••: • • <S 'j .... . > .• i t • •:rd^.: -r-::-.--nn:l~ j. 77 J- S E A L T7 fjJ'J |