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For more events in Church History
1839 - The Prophet Joseph Smith writes the Missouri State Legislature from Liberty Jail, requesting a change of venue for his trial. The hope was to move the trail from the prejudiced western Missouri people and Judge King to a more neutral place such as St. Louis, Missouri.
1848 - Henry Bigler, a member of the Mormon Battalion, recorded in his journal James W. Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on the South Fork of the American River in California. This discovery would lead to the California Gold Rush in 1849. Bigler, and several other discharged members of the Mormon Battalion, had been hired by Sutter to construct a mill along the river.
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