Mormon History, Sep 12, 1831

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-- Sep 12, 1831
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith moved with his family to Hiram, Ohio, to live with John and Alice Johnson. (1)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph and Emma move to John Johnson farm in Hiram, Ohio. (2)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. and family move into the John Johnson home in Hiram, Ohio (about thirty miles southeast of Kirtland), where he and Sidney Rigdon work on translating the Bible. A conference authorizes W. W. Phelps to buy a press and type for the Evening and the Morning Star, to be published at Independence. (3)

-- Sep 22, 1831
[Joseph Smith] Missionary Jared Carter records that he received the non-ordained "authority of an apostle." A revelation a year later contained the last known reference to Mormon missionaries as "apostles." (4)

-- Sep 26, 1831
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith completed Matthew 26:123 in his work on the inspired translation of the Bible. (1)

-- Sep 29, 1831
Amherst, Ohio conference silences Elder Chauncy Odle, Oliver Cowdery presiding. (5)

-- During Sep 1831
Joseph Smith moves to Hiram, OH and lives with the Johnsons. Sidney Rigdon also moves to Hiram. (6)

-- During September 1831
[Cahoon, Reynolds] Returned to Kirtland by September 1831. (7)

[Smith, Samuel Harrison] Returned to Ohio September 1831. (7)

-- Oct 2, 1831
Sidney baptizes Orson Hyde, Joseph confirms him, and both ordain him an elder. Orson Hyde (5)

Jesse Gause: Baptized after 22 Oct. 1831 (8)

[Hyde, Orson] Baptized into LDS Church by Sidney Rigdon 2 October 1831. (7)

-- about Oct 4, 1831
[Joseph Smith] Hiram, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 65, a revelation on the Lords Prayer, in which the Lord confirmed that the keys of the kingdom of God were established upon the earth so that the kingdom of heaven may come. (1)

Footnotes:
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
3 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
4 - D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"
5 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
6 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
7 - 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
8 - D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47

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