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-- 1820-21
[Sydney Rigdon] Alexander Campbell occasionally visited the First Baptist Church in Pittsburgh and preached there, winning some members over to his reform (1)
[Sydney Rigdon] Concord Baptist Church of Warren built its first meeting house; Rigdon assisted in the construction and "occasionally delivered a sermon from the church's pulpit" (1)
-- 1820 Jan-Feb
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon may have served as assistant to Rev. John Davis in Pittsburgh (1)
-- 1820 ?
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon visited Pittsburgh region; preached four Sundays at First Baptist Church while visiting in Library area; may have been informally invited to apply for the Pastor's position there by some members (this may be the same trip as the one reported for Nov) (1)
-- 1820 Mar-Apr?
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon moved in with Adamson Bentley, an ordained Baptist minister in Warren, OH (1)
-- Mar 1, 1820
Alex Campbell tells of a man reporting a vision where he saw the Savior at the tree tops and gave him forgiveness. (2)
-- 1820 late Mar.
[Oliver Cowdery] Sidney Rigdon arrived in Warren, Trumbull, OH, where he lived at first with his fellow Baptist minister, Adamson Bentley. (3)
-- Spring 1820
First Vision: Church History puts the first vision at this date, but the description of the circumstances at the time, place it in 1824 (event was not recalled until 1832). (2)
-- 1820 April
[Joseph Smith] Joseph Sr. and family are located at the south end of Stafford Road in Palmyra Township; Alvin Smith is residing in the village of Palmyra. (4)
-- 1820, early spring
[Joseph Smith] (age 14)Prays in the woods near his home. Visited by God the Father and Jesus Christ. Asks which sect he should join. The Savior tells him that they are all wrong and he should join none of them. (5)
-- 1820 spring
[Oliver Cowdery] Benjamin Franklin Cowdery (a second cousin of Oliver Cowdery) moved to Angelica, Allegany, NY and there edited and published the Angelica Republican (later the Allegany Republican) until about 1824, when he moved to Rochester, Monroe, NY. (3)
-- Apr 1, 1820
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon requested a certificate as a licensed preacher -- licensed to preach by Concord Baptist Church of Warren (later called Warren Central Christian Church under Campbellites) -- served as traveling evangelist in the Warren region -- preached in northern Trumbull Co. (as did "Elder Goff") (1)
-- Spring 1820
[Joseph Smith] Manchester, New York. God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to the fourteen-year-old Joseph Smith in answer to his prayer about which church he should join. (6)
-- Jun 12, 1820
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon married Phebe Brooks (prob. in Warren by Rev. A. Bentley) (1)
Footnotes:
1 - http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm
2 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
3 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
4 - Inventing Mormonism:Tradition and the Historical Record, H. Michael Marquardt Wesley P. Walters. A Chronology of Mormon Origins, p.xxvi
5 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
6 - http://josephsmith.byu.edu
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