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-- Jun 13, 1820
[Joseph Smith] The Smith family is living on land owned by Samuel Jennings. (1)
-- Jun 19, 1820-20
[Sydney Rigdon] Alexander Campbell debated with Seceder Presbyterian Minister John Walker in Mount Pleasant, OH (2)
-- Jun 22, 1820
[Joseph Smith] Tax on 300 acres of Lot 1 in Farmington (later Manchester) is to be paid by Nicholas Evertson heirs. (1)
-- 1820 Summer
[Joseph Smith] Joseph Sr. and Alvin article for 100 acres of land in Farmington, Lot 1, from Zachariah Seymour, land agent for Nicholas Evertson's heirs. (1)
-- 1820 summer?
[Oliver Cowdery] Erastus Cowdery was recorded as being the head of a household in NE Youngstown twp., Trumbull (later Mahoning), OH by the Federal Census. Sidney Rigdon was recorded in the same Census as living approx. 9 miles away, in Brookfield twp., Trumbull, OH. (3)
[Oliver Cowdery] William Cowdery, Jr., his wife Keziah, and his younger children were recorded by the Federal Census as still living in Poultney, Rutland, VT. (3)
-- 1820 Sum
[Sydney Rigdon] Sidney Rigdon and Adamson Bentley baptized in Warren and vicinity "upward of ninety persons. (2)
-- Jul 14, 1820
[Joseph Smith] Power of attorney is given to Zachariah Seymour. (1)
-- 1820 August
Joseph Smith, Sr. contracts to buy land in Farmington. (4)
-- 1820 bef. Aug 24
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon ordained a Baptist minister in Warren OH (2)
-- Aug 24, 1820-26
[Sydney Rigdon] Last Annual Meeting of the Beaver Baptist Association in Connoquenessing; Rigdon reported to have already been ordained; Sidney was asked with his mentor Bentley and cousin Charles to draft the "Corresponding Letter" for the year. (2)
-- Aug 30, 1820
[Sydney Rigdon] The "middle division" of the old Beaver Association met at Salem, where Andrew Clark was now minister, and formed the Mahoning Association, covering the counties of Trumbull, Portage, Mahoning, and some of Columbiana County and consisting of the churches of Warren, New Lisbon, Nelson, Youngstown, Salem, Randolph, Liberty, Mount Hope, Bazetta, and Braceville. (2)
-- Oct 4, 1820
[Sydney Rigdon] Beaver Baptist Association was formally divided and the newly formed Mahoning Association (mostly in OH) would become the future seedbed for Alexander Campbell's views (2)
-- 1821
[Deseret] Following the Mexican Revolution, traders from Spanish and Mexican territory barter actively in Utah. (5)
Footnotes:
1 - Inventing Mormonism:Tradition and the Historical Record, H. Michael Marquardt Wesley P. Walters. A Chronology of Mormon Origins, p.xxvi
2 - http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm
3 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)
5 - http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html
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