Phebe Woodruff reports to Wilford Woodruff that many Saints shared the attitude of the dissenters towards Joseph after the failure of the Kirtland Bank.
Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, letter to Wilford Woodruff, March 1, 1838, The Wilford Woodruff Papers website, accessed February 20, 2024
Joseph and Sidney took their families Saturday night and it is supposed they have gone to Missourie and the word is for all to follow that possibly can to escape the destruction that is comeing upon K. There is a great division there and a number have left the church and raised what they call a standard of truth and liberty and drew up a remonstration against wickedness and the procedings that have been illegally, takeing for their guide the book of Mormon the bible the and covenants for their guide. I will mention some of their names N. Milliken and wife, John Gayland and wife, W. Parish and wife, J. F. Boynton and wife Martin Harris and wife, Leonard Rich and wife, Joseph Coe and wife, Sarah Lowell, and Aphia, and many others but I hope not Willford and Phebe—there was about thirty five that signed the remonstrance, but the letter stated that there was thousands of the same opinion.
The high counsil met and cut them all of from the church. Doct Cowd ry has withdrawn from the church, the printing office has been taken and sold for Joseph’s and Sidney’s debts N. Millikens bid it off, therefore we shall not have the papers at present. I am verry sorry for that for there is much eccitem ent [excitement] here already about the delay of the papers and I suppose that they have the same