Mormon History, Jun 26, 1829

/Mormon History Chronology/
-- Jun 26, 1829
[Joseph Smith] The title page of the manuscript Book of Mormon is published in the Wayne Sentinel. [PALMYRA,] (1)

-- about Friday, Jun 26, 1829
Fayette, J Smith leaves Fayette for Manchester. (2)

-- Jun 27, 1829
[Lucy Mack Smith] Mary, the second child and second daughter of Hyrum and Jerusha Smith, is born. (3)

-- about Sunday, Jun 28, 1829
Manchester, Eight Witnesses view plates. (2)

-- Jun 29, 1829
[Lucy Mack Smith] Lucy recalls this Monday as the day on which Joseph Jr., Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, and possibly others contracted with E. B. Grandin to publish the Book of Mormon. (3)

-- Jun 30, 1829
[Lucy Mack Smith] All of the Whitmer party except Peter Whitmer return to Wayne County. (3)

-- ca. late June 1829
[Lucy Mack Smith] Traditional date for the restoration of the Melchizedek priesthood by Peter, James, and John. (3)

-- late June 1829
[Lucy Mack Smith] Oliver Cowdery baptizes Hyrum Smith in Seneca Lake. David and Peter Whitmer are baptized. (3)

-- 1829 July
[Oliver Cowdery] After hearing that Elihu F. Marshall might do the printing for Joseph Smith, Jr., Egbert B. Grandin agreed to print and bind 5000 copies of the Book of Mormon at his Wayne Sentinel office for a payment of $3,000. (4)

-- 1829 Summer
[Joseph Smith] Martin Harris goes to Rochester, New York, to inquire about printing the Book of Mormon. He reports that Joseph found a gold bible and that "By placing the spectacles in a hat and looking into it, Smith interprets the characters into the English language." [ROCHESTER,] (1)

-- July 1829
[Lucy Mack Smith] Oliver Cowdery begins making an entire second copy. (3)

-- Summer 1829
[Lucy Mack Smith] Solomon Chamberlain takes sixty-four printed but unbound pages and goes on a mission of 800 miles through Canada. (3)

-- Jul 1, 1829
[Lucy Mack Smith] Alexander McIntyre warns Joseph Jr. that a mob is waiting to waylay him on his way to Palmyra to sign the contract. Joseph disarms them by his polite greeting. (3)

-- 1829 mid-July?
[Oliver Cowdery] Oliver Cowdery and Hiram Page traveled to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to try and sell the rights for the printing of the Book of Mormon in Canada. Their route of travel may have taken them near Cattaraugus Co., NY (where Oliver's brothers Warren and Dyar then lived). They were unsuccessful in the copyright sales attempt. (4)

Footnotes:
1 - Inventing Mormonism:Tradition and the Historical Record, H. Michael Marquardt Wesley P. Walters. A Chronology of Mormon Origins, p.xxvi
2 - http://www.eldenwatson.net/BoM.htm
3 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
4 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm

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