-- Aug 8, 1831
[Joseph Smith] Independence, Missouri. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 60, a revelation concerning the elders called to serve missions to the East. (1)
[Revelations] Jackson County, Missouri. Doctrine and Covenants Section 60. Build or buy a boat to travel to St. Louis , then Joseph, Sidney, and Oliver to Cincinnati. All to preach as they return to Kirtland. Shake off dust as a witness.
Book of Commandments 61 heading: A Revelation to the elders of the church, given in Zion, August, 1831.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 70 heading: Revelation given August, 1831.
Book of Commandments 61. (2)
-- Aug 9, 1831
Joseph, Sidney, Oliver, Samuel H. Smith, Reynolds Cahoon, W. W. Phelps, Ezra Booth, Peter Gilbert, Frederick G. Williams, Peter Whitmer Jr, and Joseph Coe leave Independence for Kirtland. (3)
[Joseph Smith] Independence, Missouri. Joseph Smith and 10 other elders left in canoes on the Missouri River for Kirtland, Ohio. (1)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. and ten others leave Independence to return to Kirtland. About this time, Samuel and Reynolds Cahoon return from their mission to Missouri. (4)
-- Aug 11, 1831
At McIlwaine's Bend on the Missouri river (40 miles above Chariton), W. W. Phelps has a daytime vision of "the Destroyer" riding on the waters. MS history in (3)
-- Aug 12, 1831
D&C 61 the Lord cursed the waters in the last days; no flesh safe on them; Joseph, Sidney, Oliver not to travel on them, except by canal; Cincinnati ripe for destruction. (3)
Lyman Wight and John Corrill arrive in Jackson county. (3)
[Joseph Smith] McIlwaines Bend, Missouri River. After Brother William W. Phelps saw the destroyer riding on the face of the river in an open vision by daylight, Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 61, a revelation concerning Satans power over the waters. (1)
[Revelations] McIlwaine's Bend, Missouri River. Doctrine and Covenants 61. Water travel is not safe. The time is coming when no one will be safe on it. Take canals, not rivers. Joseph, Sidney, and Oliver should go directly to Cincinnati, for the people there are ripe for destruction. Watch for the coming of the Lord, for he will come when you don't expect it.
Book of Commandments 62 heading: A Revelation to eleven elders, given upon the bank of the Missouri river, August, 1831.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 71 heading: Revelation given August, 1831.
Background.
Travel by canoe/On August 9, Joseph and ten elders leave Independence Landing for Kirtland. His companions are: Sidney, Frederick G. Williams, Oliver, Samuel H. Smith, Reynolds Cahoon, Sidney Gilbert, W. W. Phelps, Joseph Coe, and Ezra Booth. /They travel fourteen miles by canoe to Fort Osage the first day.
W. W. Phelps vision of the destroyer on the waters/Nothing very important occurred till the third day, when many of the dangers so common upon the western waters, manifested themselves; and after we had encamped upon the bank of the river, at McIlwaine's Bend, brother Phelps, in open vision, by daylight, saw the destroyer in his most horrible power, ride upon the face of the waters. Others heard the noise, but saw not the vision. /in Papers 1:361n5.
Ezra Booth Letters (7).
The next morning after prayer, Joseph receives this revelation. (2)
[Wight, Lyman] Arrived in Jackson County, Missouri, 12 August 1831. (5)
-- Aug 13, 1831
D&C 62 (Chariton, Missouri) to John Murdock, Hyrum, Harvey Whitlock, and David Whitmer: Missions are not finished, but they may go to Zion, before returning to their labors. Joseph, Sidney, and Oliver continue overland journey to St. Louis, where they meet W. W. Phelps and Sidney Gilbert. Joseph, Sidney, and Oliver take the stage to Kirtland, while William and Sidney Gilbert travel by water [probably steamboat down the Mississippi to the Ohio, then east on the Ohio to Wellsville, 90 miles southeast of Kirtland]. (3)
[Joseph Smith] Chariton, Missouri. On the banks of the Missouri River, Joseph Smith had a chance meeting with several elders who were on their way to the land of Zion, and he received Doctrine & Covenants 62, a revelation concerning their journey. (1)
Footnotes:
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
3 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
5 - 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
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