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What territory did the Mormons fled to due to persecution?

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After New York they ended up in Missouri and were persecuted. The governor, Lilburn Boggs wrote an Extermination order that said, "the Mormons must be treated as enemies and exterminated or driven forcefully out of the state." They were driven from there and ended up in Utah.

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