[Sydney Rigdon] Thomas Campbell moved from Cambridge OH to Pittsburgh and established his English Classical School or "Mercantile Academy" (1)
-- 1815 Fall
[Sydney Rigdon] The Campbells' Brush Run Church applied for membership in the Redstone Baptist Association; after some debate they were accepted (1)
-- 1815 Nov.?
[Oliver Cowdery] Warren A. Cowdery (then nearly 28), his wife and son moved to a farm at Freedom, Cattaraugus, NY. (2)
-- 1816
The "year without a summer." Crops failed throughout New England. Joseph Smith, Sr., left Norwich, VT, settled his family in Palmyra, NY. (3)
-- 1816
Following a third straight year of crop failure, the Smith family moves to Palmyra, New York, a town of 4,000 situated near the planned route of the Erie Canal. Palmyra lies within an area known as the "Burned-over District" for the evangelical fervor of its residents. (4)
-- 1816
Elias Boudnot book published, referencing Adair's book. (5)
Elias Smith (a minister)'s story published, telling of a vision in woods (when he fell and was injured) and seeing the "Throne of God" and .."the Lamb appeared." (5)
Joseph Smith family moves to Palmyra. (5)
Solomon Spalding (~55) dies in Amity, PA. (5)
[Joseph Smith] [Joseph Smith] Family moves to Palmyra, New York. (6)
[Joseph Smith] (age 10)Moves with his family to the village of Palmyra, New York. (7)
-- c. 1816
[Oliver Cowdery] Stephen Fuller Cowdery (then 25?) married Betsey Bradshaw (probably in Rutland Co., VT). Stephen may have moved west to NY at about this time. He probably lived with relatives until after 1820. He is almost certainly the "Suthen F. Cowdery" whose name appears in the 1830 NY Census for Rochester, Monroe, NY. (2)
-- March 1816
[Joseph Smith Sr. Visions] Flower garden and bowing wooden images
3th vision of Joseph Smith Senior ...
Joseph Sr. very sick and lame [Joseph Sr.] dreamed that he was very sick and so lame he could scarcely walk.
He asks his guide, who tells him to go to a certain garden. So Joseph sets out, then asks the guide how he will recognize the garden.
Guide: go to garden the guid said walk till you come to a larger gate then open the gate and your eyes shall see behold the most beautiful folowers [sic] you ever Saw
Benches with bowing images Determined to get to the garden, Joseph Sr. sets off with a staff, limping along until, with great effort, he reaches the garden. It is filled with beautiful flowers and marble pathways. The path from the gate is lined with benches on each side. On each seat is a wooden image [the states that each figure is the size of a very large man]. As he passes by, each image rises and bows to him.
12 on each side Turning to the left, he sees an image that rises to bow to him, then notices there are twelve images on the right and twelve on the left. Each rises and bows as he passes by.
He asks the guide for the meaning of all this.
Wakes he began to explain the vision when I sudenly awoke (8)
-- 15 Mar. 1816
[Lucy Mack Smith] Norwich town authorities formally "warn out" the Joseph Smith family, a device for moving indigent arrivals into another jurisdiction; these writs had to be issued within a year of a family's arrival. For dating problems caused by this document, see Vogel 1:222-68. Joseph Smith Sr. reports his third vision: images in a garden bowing to him. (9)
Footnotes:
1 - http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm
2 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
3 - Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
4 - http://www.pbs.org/mormons/timeline/
5 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
6 - http://josephsmithpapers.org/TimelineOfEvents.htm
7 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
8 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/n/visions_js_sr.phtml#sr2
9 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
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