We visited the great Mormon Temple that was built by Joseph Smith & Sidney Rigdon two Mormon leaders. They profess to have revalations [sic] from the Lord and declared to the people all around that the Lord had given them the Land all around in the vicinity of the Temple and that the fullness of the Gentiles should be brought in, for their use and benefit; but they have proved themselves so basely dishonest in their dealings that they have been under the necessity of leaveing [sic] their Temple and Village. The leaders left in the night in order to evade pursuit. Smith & Ridgon with some of their followers went on to Missourie [sic] when they left Kirtland and many of their followers has left; a few days since between six and seven hundred more of them left with seventy loaded waggons and seventy Cows, all started in one day together for the promised land.