Mormon History, Sep 1, 1830

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-- Sep 1, 1830
[Lucy Mack Smith] Oliver Cowdery baptizes Parley P. Pratt. (1)

-- Sep 3, 1830
[Marsh, Thomas Baldwin] Baptized by David Whitmer 3 September 1830 in New York. (2)

-- Sep 4, 1830
Newel and Sally Knight visit Joseph and Emma and John Whitmer in Harmony. D&C 27 (don't buy wine or strong drink from enemies). (3)

[Joseph Smith] A revelation is recorded concerning sacrament (BC 28; LDS D&C 27; RLDS D&C 26). [HARMONY,] (4)

[Revelations] and 1833-1835, Harmony, Pennsylvania. Doctrine and Covenants 27. Use whatever you want for the sacrament. What matters is that you remember my sacrifice for your sins. Do not purchase alcohol from enemies -drink only what you produce yourselves. Soon I will drink with you and Moroni , other prophets and patriarchs who hold keys of restoration, turning hearts of fathers to children and vice versa, and others. John the Baptist, in the spirit of Elias, ordained Joseph and Oliver to the first priesthood ; Elijah committed the keys of the turning of hearts. Promises remain by virtue of the patriarchs. Peter, James, and John ordained you apostles. I have given you keys of the last dispensation. Put on the armor of God.
When Newel and Sally Knight visit Joseph and Emma Smith and John Whitmer in Harmony, Joseph goes out to buy wine for the sacrament and receives this revelation not to purchase it from enemies.
D&C 27 is a combination of two revelations. The first (vss. 1-5, 14-15 of the current version) discusses the elements to be used in the sacrament. It was first published after the Articles and Covenants in "Mormon Creed," PT, April 19, 1831. No date is provided for the revelation.
The second and third published versions of the first revelation ("Revelations. / A Commandment Given, September 4, 1830," EMS 1, no. 10 (Mar. 1833): {6}; and BC 28-date the revelation September 4, 1830. The date given in the 1834-1836 History, 51, is August 1830.
The second revelation (date unknown), dealing with the keys of the priesthood, was not published until the 1851 Pearl of Great Price (Robert J. Woodford, "Historical Development of the Doctrine and Covenants," Dissertation. BYU, 1974, 398). Later it was combined with the first revelation.
Book of Commandments 28 heading: A Commandment to the church of Christ, given in Harmony, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1830,
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 50, which combines the two revelations for the first time, gives a date of September 1830. (5)

-- 1830 mid-Sep.
[Oliver Cowdery] Joseph Smith, Jr. (at Fayette, Seneca, NY) claimed to receive a message from God directed to Oliver Cowdery (LDS D&C Sec. 28). Cowdery was told that "no one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in this church, excepting my servant Joseph..." and that he was to "go unto the Lamanites and preach my gospel unto them." Finally, Oliver was told to suppress the activities of would-be seer Hiram Page. (6)

-- Sep 19, 1830
Parley P. Pratt baptizes his brother Orson Pratt . (3)

Orson Pratt baptized. (7)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Parley P. Pratt baptizes his brother Orson at Canaan, New York; it is Orson's nineteenth birthday. (1)

[Pratt, Orson] Baptized 19 September 1830 by Parley P. Pratt in Canaan, Columbia County, New York. (2)

-- Sep 20, 1830
D&C 29: Sins forgiven, gather; resurrection, end of the world, everlasting fire. All spiritual. The devil and a third of heavenly host to hell before Adam was created. Devil necessary to tempt men. Adam yielded, cast out, spiritually dead, until angels declared repentance and redemption through the Son. Little children cannot sin, redeemed through the Only Begotten. (3)

D&C 30: David Whitmer has not been diligent. Peter Whitmer Jr. to accompany Oliver on mission. Oliver is to build up the church among the Lamanites and only Joseph is above him in the church. (3)

D&C 31: Thomas B. Marsh called on a mission, sins forgiven, physician to the church. Zion-the New Jerusalem (3)

-- Sep 20, 1830-26
D&C 28 (Fayette): Oliver to be Joseph's Aaron, preach to the Lamanites, New Jerusalem to be revealed, correct Hiram Page. All by common consent. (3)

Footnotes:
1 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
2 - Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelation of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
3 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - Inventing Mormonism:Tradition and the Historical Record, H. Michael Marquardt Wesley P. Walters. A Chronology of Mormon Origins, p.xxvi
5 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
6 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
7 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv

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