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Show ' AFFIDAVIT OP EDWARD ..'.URDOCKl - •••',' y'''.'•''',', A-Y *&#'/: av-o 1 em n half- 'A* a' ! . '- "' A . STATS OK UTAH, : :SS. County of Waoatbh,: • Edward Murdoch, boing first duly sworn, nays: b\p.c<£ Tndiang age thirty-seven years and reside ot Hober Oity^j,': Wasatch County, State of Utah, at which place 1 was born, YnhtL whortay I have oantBiraally rosidod since my birth, lay father v/n.s aarAvlritoBA^y^; nan, named Joseph Strtoey MurdoCk;,and generally known in'the community' an Joseph hurdook, and mv mother was r*n Indian woman-of tho,-. full;-"<^3?'?y^S: bi-ood and her name was Prenett.n t/urdock. Fi-om mycarlids tA§iectIii%li:'t^ . ''• • ' K ,'' y I was informed and believed and am still informed and.believe that- m$ •...--,. , A y A - ^ mother was of the Uto Tribe of Indians and of that hraiiohyof Aca'l&y '*$$£ tribe new residing in "'ana tch County, "State of Utah, .with keadquar tore.g and agency at White hocha, Utah. a • mm- •- •'« -'SN:ui - :y,%0 By father manv' times in talking with mo stated ithet he obtained;'' '"''•' ah; poanoasien of my mother when she was a kittle child, that,ho onpturud -."•' her from Alio Indians of the Ute Tribe at an engagement at krovo, then A Territory of Utah; (Bint ho, my father, was a member of tho tenet tor-/. ial iiid.li.tia and woii at the timoof tho capture or my mother, with.said... mnlitia with an engagement With the sriiu. Indians, tv a t ho was paidc-u* ( '' 'y V'o command of General Robert T. Uurion, loot, thai; under the rrimc"iiute7 oommani of lieutenant William Henry Klfiibu.ll. 'By father sold •.that'fh after the canturo of my root lor at different liineo, ho mat with lonuerio Y:,A': ' ' Y :' y- " >•%% of the said Uto Tribe of Indinhs.yund • hhr> t by making pronohu- toy tiiem^go ' and feeding them he became r*iUMv§&^^^ • ' " • < 6? said tn-ibo and obtained their c6rment> to 3-etain the, poaawnuAon oi'. riy mother. Ho also ,-tatpd lb me That ClHof "Wahkoir" was In command >fi (>, hi 10; Indians at the timoA-f 'tho' e!"fr>gaent Anbovn -moat, t one.'h'.'A-'-iy father also stated to me tbat7he';eapt*a>oa .-l-ytihcllan*^ . - • - , , . !!.•-, . - - ' .-• ... ' ' , : - : : • ' ' " : • • ' • '• . ; . , - . , , , •' •'*•' V •-( ••'+•* $&IHB+- time' as rn'y are thee; that he reared' and oducatoa. be l.h r,f 7-a.id .li..lla;,r. R^\ children^ and that at my hnother.^ma jeri ty' ho'made hu..'-'_iil_ ''-wifft ,-a.-5.|tffyy :g o, >A .• 0 1;. yy -. ''\yy • ~-Ri^-R±y,yBi~&r '.^.y<Riyyj;yyy |