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-- 1821 Sum
[Sydney Rigdon] Rigdon and Bentley return to Warren, to spread Campbell's reforms among the Baptists of the Western Reserve. (1)
-- Jul 7, 1821
[Joseph Smith] Joseph Sr. is taxed for 100 acres of Lot 1. (2)
-- Jul 16, 1821
[U.S. Religious History] Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, was born. (3)
-- Jul 18, 1821
Lucy Smith (Joseph's sister) born in Palmyra, NY. (4)
[Joseph Smith] Daughter Lucy Smith is born in Palmyra Township. (2)
[Lucy Mack Smith] The Smiths youngest child, Lucy, is born at Palmyra. (5)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Birth of Lucy. LucyM
-- 1821 Sep
[Sydney Rigdon] Sidney was a member in the council of the Mahoning Baptist Association, convening that year at Palmyra, Portage County, Ohio. At the meeting, he was asked to become the Association's messenger to the Grand River Association and to write the "Corresponding Letter" for the next year. (1)
-- 1821 Fall
The log cabin on the Farmington land is built and the Smith family moves in. (6)
-- 1821 Nov.
[Oliver Cowdery] Congregationalist minister Ethan Smith (1762-1849) moved to Poultney, Rutland, VT and took charge of the congregation there. Keziah Cowdery, her three daughters, and other children of William Cowdery, Jr. probably attended services conducted by Ethan Smith. (7)
[Oliver Cowdery] William Morgan (1797-1826) married Lucinda Pendleton (prob. in Monroe, Orange, NY). Morgan would later meet Oliver Cowdery in western NY. (7)
-- 1821 Nov
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon took his family to visit his mother and sister in PA; conferred with First Baptist congregation in Pittsburgh and received an invitation to become their full-time to succeed Rev. John Davis as the 4th Pastor there -- the plan behind this invitation was initiated and pushed forward by Alexander Campbell, who in 1821 still had some influence in the Redstone Association, to which the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh belonged; Campbell also used his influence to get Rigdon to accept the offer. (1)
-- Dec 2, 1821
[Sydney Rigdon] Phebe Brooks Rigdon baptized into Concord Church at Warren (1)
-- 1822
Sidney Rigdon gets Pastor job at Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, PA. He preaches Reformed Baptist (Campbellites), as opposed to the Redstone Baptists. (4)
Footnotes:
1 - http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm
2 - Inventing Mormonism:Tradition and the Historical Record, H. Michael Marquardt Wesley P. Walters. A Chronology of Mormon Origins, p.xxvi
3 - http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blrel_amrel_chron.htm
4 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
5 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
6 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)
7 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
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