honors. We will meet at the courthouse, at the town of Independence, on Saturday next, the 20th inst., [July], to consult on subsequent movements. Among the hundreds of names attached to the document were: Louis Franklin, jailer Samuel C. Owens, County Clerk Russel Hicks, Deputy County Clerk R.W. Cummins, Indian agent James H. Flournoy, Postmaster S.D. Lucas, Colonel and judge of the court Henry Chiles, attorney-at-law N.K. Olmstead, M.D. John Smith, justice in peace Samuel Westin, justice of the peace William Brown, Constable Abner F. Staples, Captain Thomas Pitcher, Deputy Constable Moses G. Wilson and Thomas Wilson, merchants On the same day, July 20, 1833, the W. W. Phelps printing press, which published the Evening and the Morning Star in Independence, was destroyed by a mob. The destruction was also in retaliation for the publication of portions of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, particularly that of the book of Genesis, in the Evening and the Morning Star in August 1832 and in March and April 1833. Early July 1833, the Star announced: "At no very distant period, we shall print the book of Mormon and the [New] Testament, and bind them in one volume." However, hopes for this were postponed when the printing press in Independence was destroyed. The 1838 Mormon War ended with the expulsion of nearly all Mormons from the state of Missouri. Executive Order 44 is often referred to as the "Extermination Order" due to the phrasing used by Governor Boggs. The Mormons had been given a county of their own (Caldwell County) in 1836, following their expulsion from Jackson County in 1833. However, the increasing influx of new Mormon converts moving to northwestern Missouri led them to begin settling in adjacent counties. Other settlers, who had operated under the assumption that the Mormons would remain confined to Caldwell County, became angry due to these new settlements. On July 4, 1838, church leader Sidney Rigdon delivered an oration in Far West, the county seat of Caldwell County. While not desiring or intending to start any trouble with his Christian neighbors, Rigdon wanted to make clear that the Mormons would meet any attacks on them—such as had already occurred in Jackson County during the summer and fall of 1833, resulting in their forced expulsion from their homes in that locale—with force: Far from settling tensions, Rigdon's oration had the opposite effect: it terrified and inflamed the