John D. Lee Case File

he has cause to believe that the party of emigrants referred to at the time they were murdered possessed a large amount of property and that a portion of this property can with proper diligence be recovered. Your Petitioner therefore asks as he has been already directed to take charge of said children by the "Department of the Intererior" and as they are left by the massacre of their parents without natural guardians or protectors in this Territory that he be appointed guardian over said children with full power to collect and receive all property belonging to the murdered emigrants rendering a due account to the Probate Court of all property so recieved and of the appreciation made of the same

The names of the children as far as your Petitioner has been able to learn them are as follows,

Rebecca Dunlap Louisa Dunlap Sarah Dunlap Ambrose Miran William Taggit John Sorough Lewis Sorough Mary Sorough Frances Horn Charles Francher Anna Francher Elijah Wm. Hough

Know all men by these presents that we Jacob Forney Superintendant of Indian Affairs for the Territory of Utah, now residing in Great Salt Lake City in the County of Great Salt Lake and Territory of Utah, as principal and A. Humphreys and Curtis E. Bolton of said County and Territory as sureties are held and firmly bound unto the people of the United States in the Territory of Utah, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, lawful money of the United States, and for the payment of which will and truly to be made we hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, administrators and assigns jointly, severally and firmly, by these presents.

In witness whereof we hereunto set our hands and seals; this twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1859 at Great Salt Lake City Territory of Utah.

The conditions of the above obligations are such that whereas the above bounden Jacob Forney Superintendant of Indian Affairs as aforesaid, has on this day been appointed guardian of Rebecca, Louisa, and Sarah Dunlap; Ambrose Miram, William Taggit; John Lewis, and Mary Frances Hawn; Charles and Anna Francher Elijah Williams, and Sophronia Mary Hough Betsy and Jane Baker; and Prudence Angeline and Jane (surname unknown) are minors under the age of ten years, and survivors of the "Mountain Meadows Massacre" so called, which said children are now in