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-- Apr 16, 1822
Manchester, NY Named (formerly called "Burt" and "Farmington"). (1)
-- Jun 29, 1822
[Joseph Smith] Lot 1 valuation is still $700 for 100 acres for Joseph Sr. (2)
-- Jul 2, 1822
[Joseph Smith] Zachariah Seymour, the land agent from whom Joseph Sr. and Alvin articled the 100 acres and to whom they made payments, dies. (2)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Zachariah Seymour, the Evertson land agent, dies. (3)
-- Nov 7, 1822
[Heber C. Kimball] Marries Vilate Murray. Living children--William, Helen, Heber Parley, David Patton, Charles, and Brigham Willard--by February 1846. (4)
-- 1823
Heber C. Kimball a member of the Masons. (1)
Orson Hyde works for Grandison Newel. (1)
View of the Hebrews by Ethan Smith published in New York. (1)
[West] Monroe Doctrine declared North and South America closed to European colonization. (5)
-- 1823-25
[Sydney Rigdon] According to E.D. Howe, Rigdon "abandoned preaching and all other employment for the purpose of studying the bible" (6)
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon took up work as a "journeyman tanner" (and eventually as a "currier") at a Pittsburgh tannery; he worked with his brother-in-law, Richard Brooks and/or William Brooks: Sydney Rigdon may have purchased a part of this business with the proceeds of his June land sale to James Means (6)
-- 1823
[Sydney Rigdon] Alexander Campbell begins publishing the "Christian Baptist" (6)
[Sydney Rigdon] Sept The two Pittsburgh Baptists groups appeared at the Redstone Association annual meetings (held in Pittsburgh) and argued as to which group should be accepted as the official Pittsburgh church. A commission is set up to investigate heresy charges brought against Sydney Rigdon by the Winter faction. (6)
-- Jan 1, 1823
[Sydney Rigdon] The firm of Patterson & Lambdin (along with their Butler & Lambdin Print Shop) in Pittsburgh went into banckruptcy. If a copy of the Spalding MS had survived in the Print Shop until this date it was probably then disposed of along with the other possessions of the bankrupt firm. (6)
Footnotes:
1 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
2 - Inventing Mormonism:Tradition and the Historical Record, H. Michael Marquardt Wesley P. Walters. A Chronology of Mormon Origins, p.xxvi
3 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
4 - On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Stanely B. Kimball editor. Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1987. Chronology
5 - http://www.mormonmiscellaneous.com/radioprogramblog/id8.html
6 - http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm
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