Mormon History, Before Oct 31, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- Before Oct 31, 1833
Philo Dibble sent to Liberty to buy ammunition. (1)

-- 31 Oct.-Nov 7, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] Mobs attack Mormon settlements in Jackson County; 1,200 flee into Clay, Ray, Van Buren, and Lafayette counties. (2)

-- Oct 31, 1833
Mob of 40 or 50 men partially destroy twelve Mormon homes at Whitmer settlement, 8-10 miles west of Independence, severely beat Hiram Page and one other. Outrage in Jackson County (3)

-- During 1833 October
As a result of the hostility in Jackson County, Missouri, Mormons who had settled there move to Clay County. (4)

-- During Autumn 1833
Heber C. Kimball moves to Kirtland. (1)

-- During Oct 1833
Meteor shower. (1)

-- During Oct. 1833
Jedediah M Grant: "Warned out" of Kirtland, Ohio, Oct. 1833 (5)

John Smith: "Warned out" of Kirtland, Ohio, Oct. 1833 (5)

Joseph Smith Jr.: Warned out of Kirtland again Oct. 1833 (5)

Joseph Smith Sr.: Warned out of Kirtland, Ohio, Oct. 1833 (5)

Leonard Rich: "Warned out" of Kirtland, Ohio, Oct. 1833 (5)

Levi W Hancock: "Warned out" of Kirtland, Ohio, Oct. 1833 (5)

Luke S Johnson: "warned out" of Kirtland, Ohio, Oct. 1833 (5)


Footnotes:
1 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
2 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
3 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)
5 - 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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Mormon History, Oct 23, 1833

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-- Oct 23, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Colburn, Upper Canada. At a candlelight meeting, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were challenged by a Wesleyan Methodist who exhibited a great lack of reason, knowledge, and wisdom, and gave [them] no opportunity to reply. (1)

-- by July 2, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Joseph Smith's Inspired Translation of the Bible changes references to a plurality of Gods to a single God (for example Gen 11:77; Ex 7:1; 22:28; 1 Sam. 28:13; Matt. 9:15-16; 11:27; Mark 2:28; Luke 10:22; 1 Tim 2:4; Rev 1:6) (2)

-- Oct 24, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada. When Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon returned from preaching in Waterford, Eleazer Freeman Nickerson and his wife declared their belief in the work, and offered themselves for baptism. (1)

-- about (Thr) Oct 25, 1833
D. P. Hurlbut finished up his investigative work in Pittsburgh and made travel arrangements north to Buffalo. (3)

The printing press and type Cowdery had purchased arrived in Buffalo and he left for Kirtland. (3)

-- Oct 27, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada. Joseph Smith had great success while preaching in Mount Pleasant; 12 people requested baptism and others desired another meeting for the next day. (1)

-- Oct 27, 1833-28
After visiting other villages in Upper Canada (Ontario), Joseph, Sidney, and Freeman return to Mount Pleasant on the 24th. Joseph finds the people "very superstitious," but on Sunday, the 27th begin baptizing-twelve on Sunday, two on Monday. "One of the sisters got the gift of tongues which made the saints rejoice may God increse the gifts among them for his sons sake." (4)

-- Oct 28, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada. Joseph Smith held another meeting and confirmed 14 people who had been baptized in the previous two days. (1)

-- about (Mon) Oct 28, 1833
Oliver Cowdery arrived back in Kirtland from Buffalo. (3)

-- Oct 29, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada. Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon departed for their return trip to Kirtland, Ohio. (1)

-- Oct 30, 1833
Having returned from Buffalo where he purchased a newspaper press, Oliver writes his brother, Warren, bearing witness of the Book of Mormon. "Letters of Oliver Cowdery," New Mormon studies. (4)

-- about (Wed) Oct 30, 1833
About this time D. P. Hurlbut probably arrived in Buffalo and made travel arangements to continue on to Palmyra, NY. (3)

-- (Wed) Oct 31, 1833
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon returned from their trip to Canada and stayed in Buffalo overnight. (3)


Footnotes:
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - History of the Church, 1:368-69
3 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
4 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml


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Mormon History, Oct 12, 1833

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-- Oct 12, 1833
[Revelations] Perrysburg, New York. Doctrine and Covenants 100. Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon are on their way to Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada (Ontario), with Freeman Nickerson. Their families are well. The spirit will give them what they need to say at the moment it is needed. Sidney is to be Joseph's spokesman and scriptorian, Joseph is to be his revelator. Zion will be redeemed, the Lord will raise up a pure people.
Joseph's 1832-1834 diary entry, in Sidney's hand: "came Saturday the 12th [to] the house of father Nicke[r]son. " Then, in Joseph's hand, "I feel very well in my mind the Lord is with us but have much anxiety about my family &c;-".
Newel K. Whitney manuscript heading: Prereysburg Chatoegua Co N York Saturday October 12th 1833. [Perrysburg is and always has been in Cattaraugus, not Chautauqua county. ].
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 94 heading: Revelation given in Perrysburgh, N. Y. to Joseph Smith jr. and Sidney Rigdon, October, 1833. (1)

-- about 12-Oct 14, 1833
Oliver Cowdery was probably at the wholesale printing supply company of James D. Bemis in Canadaigua, Ontario Co., NY, buying a press and type. (2)

-- about (Mon) Oct 14, 1833
Joseph and Sidney Rigdon passed through Buffalo and went into Canada for two weeks, (2)

-- 1833 mid-Oct.
[Oliver Cowdery] Oliver Cowdery went to New York City to purchase a printing press for the Church. Along the way he visited with his brother Warren in Cattaraugus Co., NY and his parents, who were still living in Arcadia, Wayne, NY. (3)

-- Oct 15, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Lodi, New York. Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were refused entrance to preach in a Presbyterian meetinghouse. (4)

-- Oct 18, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada. Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Freeman Nickerson arrived at the house of Eleazer Freeman Nickerson. (4)

-- Oct 19, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] Governor Dunklin of Missouri rejects a petition from Orson Hyde and W. W. Phelps. (5)

-- Oct 20, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Brantford, Upper Canada. Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon preached in the morning and evening to attentive congregations. (4)

-- about Oct 20-23 1833
Oliver Cowdery visited his parents in Arcadia, Wayne Co., NY (2)

The printing press Oliver had recently purchased was sent to Buffalo on an Erie Canal boat at about this time. Perhaps it was loaded onto the canal at Palmyra. (2)

-- (Mon) Oct 21, 1833
Kirtland Township Overseer of the Poor, Roswell D. Cottrill, began serving a writ of "warning out of town" upon 49 Mormon families in Kirtland. The process was not completed until Dec. 20. Among the first names on his list were Joseph Smith, Jr., Hyrum Smith, and Sidney Rigdon (2)

-- Oct 21, 1833
Joseph, Sidney, and Freeman address a large Sunday congregation in Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada. (6)

-- Oct 22, 1833
Joseph and his companions speak in nearby Colborne and are opposed by a Wesleyan Methodist who was "destitute of reason or knowledge." A Mr. Wilkeson, a leading Methodist, seems receptive, however. (6)


Footnotes:
1 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
2 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
3 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
4 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
5 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
6 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml


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Mormon History, prob. about (Fri) Oct 5, 1833

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-- prob. about (Fri) Oct 5, 1833
D. P. Hurlbut left the Henry Lake farm in western Erie co., PA and began his solo journey to the East to collect documentary evidence damaging to Joseph Smith, Jr. (1)

-- prob. early to mid-Oct 1833
According to Benjamin Winchester and E. D. Howe, D. P. Hurlbut made a side-trip to Pittsburgh at about this time. If so, the results of his interview with Robert Patterson, Sr. remain unknown. Hurlbut's lawyer, James A. Briggs, said that Hurlbut recovered a Spalding manuscript during this visit to Pittsburgh and that he later brought that document to Mentor, Ohio. (1)

-- (Sun) Oct 6, 1833
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon stayed at "Brother Rudd's" (a recent Mormon convert living in western Erie Co., PA, on the first stop of their journey to the East. Erastus Rudd lived in a house where much of Solomon Spalding's writing had been done. His sister-in-law was the daughter of Lyman Jackson, probably the man who first supplied details about Spalding to D. P. Hurlbut (1)

-- (Tue) Oct 6, 1833
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon visit Elk Creek, Erie Co., PA, the home base of D. P. Hurlbut's spring mission and summer lecturing tour. (1)

-- Oct 6, 1833
(Sunday) Joseph and Freeman reach Springfield, Erie County, Pennsylvania. (2)

-- about 8-Oct 11, 1833
Oliver Cowdery apparently visited his brother Warren A. Cowdery in Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., NY at this time. (1)

-- (Thr) Oct 10, 1833
Construction on the Kirtland Temple was suspended and work began on the new Church office building just west of the Temple (1)

-- Oct 10, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Construction on the Kirtland Temple was discontinued until early spring due to lack of materials. (3)

-- (Sat) Oct 12, 1833
In a divine revelation reportedly received at Perrysburg, Cattaraugus Co., NY (just south of the the Indian Reservation), Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were commanded to continue their travels in the East. (1)

-- Oct 12, 1833
D&C 100 (Perrysburgh, New York): Sidney to be Joseph's spokesman. (2)

A revelation appoints Sidney Rigdon as "a spokesman to my servant Joseph." (4)

[Joseph Smith] Perrysburg, New York. While at Freeman Nickersons, Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 100, a revelation concerning his and Sidney Rigdons missionary labors. (3)

[Joseph Smith] A revelation appoints Rigdon as "a spokesman to my servant Joseph." (5)


Footnotes:
1 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
2 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
3 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
4 - http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
5 - 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"


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Mormon History, September 1833

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-- During September 1833
[Young, Brigham] Moved to Kirtland September 1833. (1)

-- Oct 1, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] Oliver Cowdery and Newel Whitney go to New York to buy a printing press. (2)

[Whitney, Newel Kimball] Left for New York City to purchase goods to replenish store 1 October 1833. (1)

-- prob. about the beginning of Oct 1833
D. P. Hurlbut visited with old Spalding associate Henry Lake in western Erie Co., PA. While there he spent a night or two with a woman of low reputation -- probably Sister Huldah Barnes of Conneaut township. (3)

-- about (Wed) Oct 3, 1833
Oliver Cowdery left Kirtland with $800 to purchase a new printing press and type for the Church. His destination was probably Canandaigua, New York. (3)

-- (Sat) Oct 5, 1833
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon left Kirtland on a 4 week journey to the East. Among other reasons for his leaving at this time, Smith may have been trying to avoid being served writs requiring his appearance in court. (3)

-- Oct 5, 1833
Joseph leaves for Upper Canada with Freeman Nickerson. His children were living in Mt. Pleasant, Upper Canada. (4)

[Joseph Smith] Springfield, Erie County, Pennsylvania. Joseph Smith started on a journey to the eastern United States and Canada. (5)

[Joseph Smith] Departed Kirtland on journey to Mount Pleasant, Upper Canada, to proselytize. (6)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. leaves on proselyting mission to Canada. (7)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr., Sidney Rigdon, and Freeman Nickerson leave Kirtland on a mission to Upper Canada. (2)

-- October 5-Nov 4, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Joseph serves a mission to Canada. (8)

-- about (Fri) Oct 5, 1833
Oliver Cowdery was passing through Erie co, PA on his way to New York. (3)


Footnotes:
1 - 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
2 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
3 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
4 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
5 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
6 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
7 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
8 - http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org/joseph_smith_timeline


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Mormon History, Sep 11, 1833

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-- Sep 11, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] The Kirtland conference agrees to print the Latter Day Saint Messenger and Advocate there and also to transfer the Star to Kirtland with Oliver Cowdery as editor. (1)

[Partridge, Edward] Acknowledged as presiding officer of Church in Missouri 11 September 1833. (2)

[Pratt, Parley Parker] Appointed President of Branch Number Eight in Jackson County 11 September 1833. (2)

[Wight, Lyman] Appointed to preside over Branch Number Seven in Jackson County, Missouri, 11 September 1833. (2)

-- mid Sep 1833
At this time D. P. Hurlbut was "employed to look up testimony" by the self-constituted committee of anti-Mormons which met at Mentor. According to the Jan. 31, 1834 "To the Public" notice in the Painesville Telegraph, "the Committee employed D. P. Hurlbut to ascertain the real origin of the Book of Mormon, and to examine the validity of Joseph Smith's claims to the character of a Prophet." According to the Dec. 20, 1833 "Mormon mystery developed" article published in the Wayne Sentinel, Hurlbut gathered evidence in "in different parts" of New York state "on behalf of his fellow-townsmen, in the pursuit "of facts and information concerning the origin and design of the Book of Mormon..." D. P.'s widow supplied this account: "He was employed by leading citizens of Mentor and Geauga Co. to investigate the character of the Mormon Smith Family and the origin of the Book of Mormon. He went to Palmyra, N.Y. by stage..." Thus it seems that while Hurlbut's primary mission was to bring
back evidence of "the real origin of the Book of Mormon," he was also employed to "examine the validity" of Mormon claims that Joseph Smith and his family were persons of good character. (3)

-- Sep 26, 1833
[Higbee, Elias] Appointed to be ordained high priest 26 September 1833. (2)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith wrote a letter to Silas Smith at Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, New York. (4)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. writes a lengthy doctrinal letter to his uncle, Silas Smith, on the need for continuous revelation. (1)

-- Sep 28, 1833
Orson Pratt arrives in Kirtland from mission east, having been absent six months, duirng which I travelled about 2000 miles, attended 125 meetings, and baptized upwards of 50 persons. (5)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith and the Kirtland High Council decided by unanimous vote that it was the will of the Lord for all who were able and willing, to build up and strengthen the stake in Kirtland. (4)

[Pratt, Orson] Returned to Kirtland 28 September 1833, having baptized 50 persons. Worked on Kirtland Temple. (2)

-- prob. late Sep. 1833
D. P. Hurlbut collected cash donations from Mentor Campbellite Orris Clapp, and other members of "the Committee." According to Benjamin Winchester, "one of them, a Campbellite by name, Newel advanced the sum of three hundred dollars, for the prosecution of the work..." It is very doubtful that Mentor businessman Grandison Newell was "a Campbellite," but he was no doubt the same "Newell" who helped finance Hurlbut's research journey.Upon his way to the East, Hurlbut stopped over in Conneaut twp., Ashtabula Co., and called a meeting of concerned citizens. There he secured more statements from old associates of Solomon Spalding and raised more money to cover his travel expenses. (3)

-- During 1833 September
Brigham Young, now a widower, arrives with his two young children in Kirtland. (6)


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://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
4 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
5 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
6 - http://www.pbs.org/mormons/timeline/


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Mormon History, (Sat) Aug 24, 1833

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-- (Sat) Aug 24, 1833
The Chardon Spectator printed its "The Mormonites" article, with text was derived from the Missouri Republican of Aug. 9, 1833. It said: "A meeting of the citizens of Jackson county, to the number of four or five hundred, was held at Independence on the 20th of July. Their avowed object was to take measures to rid themselves of the Mormonites.... the citizens have been daily told that they are to be cut off, and their lands appropriated to the Mormons for inheritances; but they are not fully agreed among themselves as to the manner in which this shall be accomplished, whether by the destroying angel, the judgement of God, or the arm of power. The comittee express their fears that, should this population continue to increase, they will soon have all the offices of the county in their hands; and that the lives and property of other citizens would be insecure, under the administration of men who are so ignorant and superstitious..." (1)

-- prob. late Aug 1833
With John & Martha's statements in hand D. P. Hurlbut began short series of lectures on the "true origin of Mormonism" in and around Kirtland. It is not likely that Hurlbut gave a full recitation of the Spalding authorship claims at this point, but his avowal that he knew the book's true origin proved intriguing to local anti-Mormons and disgruntled ex-Mormons like Joseph H. Wakefield. (1)

-- During Aug 1833
Philastus Hurlbut finds Fabius Story - shows it to witnesses who say it's not the same story they saw. (2)

Philastus Hurlbut goes to Conneaut, OH and collects statements from eight people claiming that the historical content of the Book of Mormon is from Solomon Spalding's manuscript: John Spalding (Solomon's brother), Martha Spalding (John's wife), Henry Lake (Solomon's partner in the forge business), John N. Miller (employee of Spalding and Lake), Arron Wright (Conneaut Justice of the Peace), Oliver Smith (Spalding boarded with him), Nahum Howard (town doctor), Artemus Cunningham (a debt holder trying to get payment from Spalding). (2)

-- Sep 4, 1833
I was sensable, when you left Kirtland that the Lord would chasten you I am not at all astonished at what has happened to you neither to what has happened to Zion and I could tell all the whys & wherefores of all there calamities but alas it is in vain to warn and give precepts for all men are naturally disposed to walk in their own paths Joseph to Vienna Jacques, PWJS, 318. (3)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith wrote a letter to Vienna Jacques, thanking her for her monetary offerings. (4)

-- prob. early Sep 1833
In the days just prior to Hurlbut's return to the Kirtland area. a self-constituted committee of citizens of Willoughby, Mentor, and Painesville began meeting at the home of Warren Corning, in Mentor, to investigate the origin and design of Mormonism. At least two members of the group were also currently Kirtland township officers: Justice of the Peace Josiah Jones and Town Clerk Oliver A. Crary. D. P. Hurlbut got himself invited to the semi-public meetings of this group. (1)

-- Sep 8, 1833
Orson Pratt records in his journal: "O[rson] P[ratt] and L[yman] J[ohnson] sealed the members of the church at Bath, New Hampshire, Conn., to eternal life." (5)

-- (Wed) Sep 11, 1833
Having lost the Church's "Literary Firm" office in Independence to mob action, Joseph Smith and his counselors decided to establish a publishing house at Kirtland, under the name of F. G. Williams and Co. This decision (along with construction on the Temple and other Church projects) was taken by the local anti-Mormons as a firm sign that Smith's followers were determined to remain and expand their colony in Ohio. (1)

-- Sep 11, 1833
High council in Zion: Bishop Edward Partridge head of the church in Zion, permanent moderator. Presidents of ten branches appointed. W. W. Phelps sings in tongues. (3)

In Kirtland the United Firm decides to establish a new company, F. G. Williams & Co., to publish The Latter-day Saints Messenger and Advocate and, until it can resume operations in Independence, The Evening and the Morning Star, edited by Oliver Cowdery. Within a few days, Oliver leaves for Buffalo, where he purchases a new press, returning at the end of October. (3)

It was decided to publish a paper in Kirtland, entitled "The Latter-day Saints' Messenger and Advocate." Bishop Edward Partridge was acknowledged head of the Church in Zion. (6)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith and other council members consented to establish a press in Kirtland to publish the Latter-day Saints Messenger and Advocate and the Evening and Morning Star until they could be published in Missouri again. (4)


Footnotes:
1 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
2 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
3 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
5 - http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
6 - Richards - Little, Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, Church Chronology, Ch.66, p.306


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Mormon History, Aug 10, 1833

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-- Aug 10, 1833
Oliver Cowdery writes Missouri brethren: gratitude for their willingness to lay down their lives; Lord "well pleased" with treaty calling for them to leave Jackson; no other way to save lives; tribulation "would not have come uopn Zion had it not been for rebelion"-rebellion against Joseph and all officers down to the least. Oliver to W. W. Phelps, John Whitmer, Edward Partridge, Issac Morley, John Corrill, and Sidney Gilbert, and others (Independence), Aug. 10, 1833. Copy in hand of Edward Partridge.
therefore, brethren purge them out, & have no confidence in any except as such as will lay down their lives for this sacred cause for none others are worthy of it. there was no other way to cleanse the church. yet the elect will be saved, & Zion will be the joy of al saints & they will possess her forever & ever; the Son of righteousness will soon appear with healing in his wings, & he will apare his people as a man spareth his own son who serveth him. (1)

W. W. Phelps to send Joseph the manuscript for an Extra of the Evening and Morning Star to be published in Kirtland. The brethren are to write weekly, let him know who has apostatized. Don't be discouraged. May have to sell some lands in Jackson County, "but be wise, hold on to the sacred places." (1)

[Joseph:] P S Brethren if I were with you I should take an active part in your sufferings, and although nature shrinks, yet my spirit would not let me forsake you unto death god helping me oh be of good cheer for our redemption draweth near Oh God save my brethren in Zion Oh brethren give up all to god forsake all for Christ sake (1)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith wrote a letter to William Phelps, John Whitmer, Edward Partridge, Isaac Morley, John Corrill, Sidney Gilbert, and others. (2)

-- about (Wed) Aug 14, 1833
Oliver Cowdery arrived in Kirtland with the first news of the riot in Independence. About this same time western newspapers begin to arrive with the news that the Missouri Mormon leaders had agreed to leave Jackson county by the beginning of April. According to Lucy Mack Smith, her son then "called a council" in Kirtland in which it was resolved to assist the Missouri Saints with "money and clothing" (p. 198). (3)

-- mid-Aug 1833
Joseph Smith sent his secretary, Orson Hyde, from Kirtland to Jackson county to deliver messages and seek the assistance of the Governor of Missouri in maintaining the Mormons upon their property there. (3)

News of the Missouri Mormons being "regulated" by a "committee" in Jackson county spread among Kirtland area anti-Mormons. They discussed the pros and cons of this kind of action. Although the Ohioans did not elect to resort to the extreme illegalities and outrages perpetrated by the Jackson county "committee," they were no doubt impressed by the successful results of concerted group action against the congregating of large numbers of impoverished Mormons. (3)

-- prob. mid-Aug 1833
With reports of the serious Mormon setbacks in Missouri in all the newspapers, D. P. Hurlbut decided this would be a good time to extend his lecturing to the Mormon headquarters of Kirtland. He determined to move back to his old residence with the Ezekiel Johnson family there. With him he carried important statements he had just obtained from of John and Martha Spalding in Crawford county. Their statements said that John's late brother, the Rev. Solomon Spalding, had unknowingly written a large part of the published Book of Mormon text. (3)

-- (Fri) Aug 16, 1833
The Painesville Telegraph informed Geauga county residents that "a great riot took place" at "the Mormon colony in Missouri." The article also said that a "treaty of amity" had been accepted, in which the Mormons "agreed to leave the county as soon as they conveniently could." (3)

-- (Sat) Aug 17, 1833
The Chardon Spectator printed its "Mormonites" article, saying that "a great riot" had taken place at the Mormon "headquarters in Jackson county, Missouri...in which the inhabitants of that neighborhood attacked the Mormonites, endeavoring to make some of their leaders recant their faith -- refusing to do this, the people tarred and feathered them..." The Spectator reprinted part of the Missouri Republican's"Regulating the Mormonites" article of Aug 9th. The Spectator also said: "After their colony went to Missouri it was understood, they disagreed among themselves, and the society, without opposition, would have soon fallen to pieces, and resolved itself into the beggarly elements of which it was composed." (3)

-- (Sun) Aug 18, 1833
With all the news of the disaster in Missouri then available in the public press, it is likely that Joseph Smith preached in Kirtland, mentioning the the agreement the Misouri Mormons had made to leave "Zion." Smith reportedly told the Missouri Mormons that "the Lord would justify them to stand in their own defense -- sword in hand," (Donna Hill, p. 163) But Smith exempted Oliver Cowdery from that defense, saying "Oliver can stay here to good advantage..." (letter of Aug 8, 1833, cited in Legg, p. 74) (3)

-- Aug 18, 1833
D&C 98 raise standard of peace, not revenge.
it is the will of the Lord that the Store shou[ld] be kept and that <not> one foot of <land> [DEL: the :DEL] perchased should <be> be given to the enimies of god or sold to them but if any is sold let it be sold to the chirch we cannot git the consent of the Lord that we shall give the ground to the enemies we wait the Comand of God to do whatever he plese and if <he> shall say go up to Zion and defend thy Brotheren by <the sword> we fly Joseph to W. W. Phelps and others. PWJS, 311. (1)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith wrote a letter to the brethren in Missouri concerning the violence there. (2)


Footnotes:
1 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
3 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm


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Mormon History, Summer 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- During Summer 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] Sophronia Smith Stoddard becomes deathly ill in Kirtland but is healed by faith through the administration of Jared Carter. (1)

-- (Fri) Aug 2, 1833
Joseph Smith claimed to receive two divine revelations. The first instructed the Mormons in Jackson county that the planned Independence Temple was to be "built speedily" and that, by their carrying out these instructions, "Zion... shall prosper and spread herself and become very glorious..." The second revelation commanded the Saints in Kirtland to "commence a work of laying out and preparing... the City of the stake of Zion..." (2)

-- Aug 2, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 97, a revelation about the Saints in Jackson County, Missouri, who were suffering great persecutions. (3)

[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 97. Many humble in Zion. Parley to preside over school there. Build a House of the Lord in Zion according to the revealed pattern. The Lord will come to it and the pure will see God. Zion the pure in heart. Vengeance somes speedily. Offerings accepted.
Kirtland Revelations Book, 60-61, heading: The word of the Lord unto Joseph Sidney and Fredrick.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 D&C 81 heading: Revelation given August, 1833.
Kirtland Revelations Book Doctrine and Covenants 97 KRB, 60-61.
The word of the Lord unto Joseph Sidney and Fredrick. (4)

-- early Aug 1833
At this time D. P. Hurlbut probably extended his anti-Mormon lecturing into Crawford County. Probably he had heard from the Lyman Jackson family that a brother of the late Solomon Spalding was still living in Crawford. Along the course of his lecture route Hurlbut began dropping hints of a fraudulent origin for the Book of Mormon. (2)

-- (Tue) Aug 6, 1833
Joseph Smith claimed to receive a divine revelation instructing the Mormons to "renounce war and proclaim peace" and to allow their "enemies" to "smite" them as many as three times without their seeking revenge. (2)

Joseph Smith wrote a "beloved brethren" letter from Kirtland to the Mormons in Missouri, enclosing his three latest divine revelations. No mention was made of God knowing about the Independence riot of July 20th, or of the agreement the Mormons had made to leave Jackson county. (2)

-- Aug 6, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 98, a revelation regarding the persecution of the Church in Missouri and including instruction on how the Saints should react to their enemies. (3)

[Joseph Smith] Joseph Smith announces a revelation regarding government and war. This establishes Mormonism's theocratic prerogatives. (5)

[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 98. Fear not, be patient. Uphold Constitutional laws. Constitution and Lord make you free. Renounce war and proclaim peace, and turn children to fathers, etc. . Many in Kirtland need to repent. Don't seek revenge, be patient and bear three assaults. Then may respond , but better if you don't. Forgive 70 times 7. Lord will avenge a hundred fold unless they repent.
Letter from Joseph Smith to "Beloved Brethren. " Original at LDS Church Archives. (4)

-- (Fri) Aug 9, 1833
The Missouri Republican printed its "'Regulating' the Mormonites" article. The news report was widely reprinted by other newspapers. (2)

-- Aug 9, 1833
Oliver Cowdery reaches Nauvoo, confers with Joseph about conditions in Jackson. (6)

[Joseph Smith] Oliver Cowdery arrived in Kirtland with news of Jackson County citizens demands for expulsion of Latter-day Saints. (7)


Footnotes:
1 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
2 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
3 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
4 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
5 - 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"
6 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
7 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839


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The Deseret Alphabet

Have you ever wondered why "enough" isn't spelled with an "f" or why "knew" needs a "k"? Brigham Young imagined an easier way of writing English. He charged a committee with creating a new, simpler method, and in 1854, the Deseret Alphabet was born. A primer was written, a gold coin was minted - and today, one of the rare Books of Mormon printed in the alphabet goes for thousands. Wednesday, we're talking about the Deseret Alphabet - the reasons it  was created and why it didn't last.

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The Deseret Alphabet

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Mormon History, Jul 23, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- Jul 23, 1833
Cornerstone of the House of the Lord is laid in Kirtland. (1)

Hundreds of armed Jackson County citizens enter Independence, "threatening death and destruction." Mormon leaders pledge to move out of the County by January 1, 1834 and urge others to do the same. Half of the Mormons to move by January 1, the rest by April 1, 1834. The Star is to cease publication. (1)

The corner stones of the Lord's house in Kirtland were laid. (2)

Mormons agree to leave Jackson County, most by 1-Jan, 1834 and all by 1-Apr, 1834 [per John Whitmer]. (3)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith participated in laying the cornerstones of the Kirtland Temple. (4)

[Joseph Smith] Under duress, Latter-day Saints in Jackson County agreed with demands of vigilantes to leave the county. (5)

[Joseph Smith] Cornerstones are laid for the Kirtland Temple. (6)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Cornerstone for Kirtland Temple laid. (7)

[Lucy Mack Smith] During a second mob attack on Independence, the Mormons agree that half will leave by 1 January 1834 and the rest in April 1834. (8)

[Smith, Don Carlos] Assisted in laying foundation stones for Kirtland Temple 23 July 1833. Worked on Kirtland Temple. (9)

-- late Jul 1833
D. P. Hurlbut's lecture tour in PA took him south through Erie county, to Jacksonville and Elk Creek. Here his relative and foremer co-religionist, Benjamin Winchester, attended one of Hurlbut's anti-Mormon addresses. Hurlbut no doubt took advantage of being in the home area of Lyman Jackson and his family and questioned them more closely about claims that Solomon Spalding had written a large part of the Book of Mormon text. (10)

-- During 1833 Summer
The Missouri Mormons begin to suffer violence at the hands of other locals; their printing press (on which The Book of Commandments is being printed) is destroyed in July. Mob violence will drive the Mormons out of Jackson County and across the Missouri River to Clay County in November. The pages of The Book of Commandments are rescued from the muddy streets and bound, creating the first published collection of Smith's revelations. (11)

-- During July 1833
[Smith, Samuel Harrison] Assisted in laying foundation stones for Kirtland Temple July 1833. Worked on Kirtland Temple. (9)


Footnotes:
1 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - Richards - Little, Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, Church Chronology, Ch.66, p.306
3 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
4 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
5 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
6 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
7 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
8 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
9 - 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
10 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
11 - http://www.pbs.org/mormons/timeline/


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Mormon History, Jul 20, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- Jul 20, 1833
Independence, Missouri, Printing Office destroyed; Edward Partridge tarred and feathered by mob. (1)

A few printed sheets were rescued by two young girls. Sacred loneliness, 209. (2)

Following a mass meeting of Jackson County citizens, a mob destroys the office and press of the Evening and Morning Star, W. W. Phelps' home. They tar and feather Edward Partridge and Charles Allen, and force Gilbert and Whitney to close their store. Nearly all copies of the Book of Commandments, then in production, are destroyed. (2)

An Independence, MO citizens committee meeting voted to destroy the press of The Evening and Morning Star (A. S. Gilbert (store owner), Edward Partridge, Isaac Morley, John Corrill, William W. Phelps, and John Whitmer were present). The press was destroyed by the mob and Edward Partridge and Charles Allen were tarred and feathered and ordered to leave Independence (were living in house rented from Lilburn W. Boggs). (3)

[Joseph Smith] The first attack on a Mormon community is launched by neighbors near Independence, Mo., continuing on and off for months. The immediate cause for this attack is The Evening and the Morning Star publication of a pro-abolitionist article entitled "Free People of Color." (4)

[Joseph Smith] Vigilantes, demanding removal of Latter-day Saints from Jackson County, destroyed printing press and tarred and feathered Edward Partridge and Charles Allen, Independence. (5)

[Joseph Smith] A mob destroys the press in Independence, Missouri, on which the Book of Commandments is being printed, as well as most of the printed pages. In September 1835 the revelations from the Book of Commandments, as well as other revelations, are published in Kirtland in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. (6)

[Lucy Mack Smith] A mob in Independence destroys the printing press, tears down Phelps's house, destroys the Book of Commandments, and tars and feathers Edward Partridge and Charles Allen. (7)

[Partridge, Edward] Tarred and feathered 20 July 1833. (8)

-- (Tue) Jul 23, 1833
The corner stones of the Kirtland Temple were laid by Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, F. G. Williams and other elders. (9)

The leaders of the Missouri Mormons agreed to leave Jackson county, most of them by Jan., 1834 and all of them before by Apr. 1, 1834. This agreement was made without the knowledge of Joseph Smith. (9)

-- Jul 23, 1833
Saints at Independence made treaty with mob to leave Jackson Co. Kirtland Temple cornerstones laid. (10)

Kirtland Temple cornerstones laid; Saints made treaty with mob, agreeing to leave Jackson County, Missouri. (1)


Footnotes:
1 - http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
2 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
3 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
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 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
6 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
7 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
8 - 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
9 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
10 - Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History


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Mormon History, Jul 2, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- Jul 2, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Concluded work on New Translation, or inspired revision, of Bible, Kirtland. (1)

[Joseph Smith] [Joseph Smith] Completes revision of Bible. (2)

[Joseph Smith] Completes his initial work on the inspired translation of the Bible, now known as the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. From this work came the book of Moses and Joseph SmithMatthew, now contained in the Pearl of Great Price. (3)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Translation of the Bible "completed." (4)

-- early Jul 1833
D. P. Hurlbut traveled back to Springfield, Erie County PA and held his first public lectures against the Mormon Church. The lecture tour took him south through Erie county, to Jacksonville and Elk Creek. (5)

-- about Jul 10, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith clarified to the Saints that the hot drinks spoken of in the Word of Wisdom included tea and coffee. (6)

-- Jul 13, 1833
The July issue of the Evening and Morning Star contains a controversial article by W. W. Phelps quoting Missouri state law and constitution regarding flee blacks entering the state and freedom of religion. (7)

-- Jul 15, 1833
Saints in Zion, MO receive notice from the citizens of Jackson County, accusing them of planning to take over all the Jackson County land, tampering with their slaves, and inviting free negroes and mulattos to join; the citizens instruct Mormons to leave or they will remove them. (8)

-- Jul 16, 1833
The Evening and Morning Star issues an extra, explaining the controversial article was only intended to encourage Mormons not to be come involved in the slavery issue. (7)

[Lucy Mack Smith] The Evening and Morning Star publishes an editorial on "free people of color," then retracts it when it outrages the "old settlers." (9)

-- Jul 18, 1833
Letter circulates in Jackson County calling for the removal of all Mormons. EMS 2, no 15 (Dec.1833): 114. (7)

-- (Sat) Jul 20, 1833
At Independence, a citizens committee destroyed the press of The Evening and Morning Star. They tarred and feathered Bishop Edward Partridge and the Mormons were ordered to leave Jackson county. (5)

-- Jul 20, 1833
Mob at Independence demanded removal of Saints from Jackson Co. Printing office destroyed, halting printing of Book of Commandments. (10)


Footnotes:
1 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
2 - http://josephsmithpapers.org/TimelineOfEvents.htm
3 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
4 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
5 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
6 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
7 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
8 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
9 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
10 - Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History


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Mormon History, Jun 24, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- Jun 24, 1833
Council of elders at Westfield, New York excommunicates Elder James Higby for circulating false reports. (1)

-- Jun 25, 1833
Sidney, in behalf of the presidency, writes W. W. Phelps and others in Zion: No need to bind the Book of Commandments; get Books of Mormon from Brother Burket for the Literary Firm; ordain Isaac Morley and John Corrill bishops. Parley P. Pratt and Titus Billings to be counselors to Bishop Partridge; Christian Whitmer and Newel Knight to Bishop Morley; Daniel Stanton and Hezekiah Peck to Bishop Corrill. John Johnson has moved to Kirtland. Sidney's mother (age 75), recently baptized, now living with him. Draft of the city of Zion enclosed. House [temple] "to be built immediately for the Presidency, as well as for all purposes of religion and instruction." Wives must be interviewed separately and sign deeds to transfer property. Book of Commandments corrections (mostly technical, such as "respecter to" to "respecter of," "hands" to "heads," etc.). Letterbook-1, 44-50. (1)

[Joseph Smith] Joseph Smith describes the future temple of the City of Zion [Independence, Missouri] as a complex of twenty-four temples, three each designated for deacons, teachers, priests, the presidency of Lesser Priesthood, elders, high priests, bishops, and the presidency of the High Priesthood. (2)

[Joseph Smith] Sent plat for city of Zion with temple plan to Missouri Latter-day Saints, Kirtland. (3)

-- Jun 28, 1833
Joseph sells his 13 acres and 80 perches to brother-in-law, Joseph McKune Jr. Land had been "left or rented" since Joseph left it. Susquehanna County Deed Book 9:290 in Montrose, Pennsylvania cited by New York exodus, 6-7. (1)

-- During Jun 1833
Saints in Zion receive gift of tongues [per Wilford Woodruff]. (4)

-- During June 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] Doctor Philastus Hurlbut is excommunicated for adultery and begins collecting affidavits about the Smith family in New York that are published with additions by Eber D. Howe in 1834 as Mormonism Unvailed. (5)

-- Jul 2, 1833
Joseph Smith concluded first draft of Bible translation. (6)

First draft of Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible completed. (7)

Old Testament revisions complete. (1)

Joseph Smith, Jun., finished the translation of the Bible. (8)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Although the major portion of the inspired translation of the Bible was completed by this date, Joseph Smith continued to make modifications while preparing a manuscript for the press until his death in 1844. (9)

[Joseph Smith] Joseph Smith finishes his "translation" of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. Making changes in an 1828 edition, Smith alters more than 3,400 verses and introduces new passages. (2)


Footnotes:
1 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - 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"
3 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
4 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
5 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
6 - Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
7 - http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
8 - Richards - Little, Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, Church Chronology, Ch.66, p.306
9 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith


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Mormon History, Jun 6, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- Jun 6, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith and an assembly of high priests voted to instruct the building committee to proceed immediately to obtain materials for the construction of the Kirtland Temple. (1)

[Joseph Smith] Latter-day Saints began construction on temple, Kirtland. (2)

-- Jun 21, 1833
Kirtland. The President's Council of High Priests is persuaded by Doctor P. Hurlbut's "liberal confession," and restores him to membership. (3)

Orson Pratt baptizes Jacob and Mary Gates, Willard Snow and others in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. (3)

Dr. Philastus Hurlbut appealed, was forgiven and reinstated. (4)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith attended a council to hear the appeal of Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, who was excommunicated two days later. (1)

[Smith, John] Ordained high priest 21 June 1833. (5)

[Smith, William B] Ordained high priest 21 June 1833. (5)

-- (Sun) Jun 23, 1833
D. P. Hurlbut was excommunicated from the Mormons for the second time (6)

-- Jun 23, 1833
Doctor P. Hurlbut is again called into question by a general council. Brother Gee of Thompson testifies that Brother Hurlburt said that he deceived Joseph Smith's God, or the spirit by which he is actuated. Corroborating testimony from Brother Hodges. The council cuts him off. (3)

Dr. Philastus Hurlbut charged with other offences and excommunicated. (4)

James Higby cut off from Church. (4)

Kirtland Temple cornerstones laid. (4)


Footnotes:
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
3 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
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
6 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm


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Mormon History, Jun 3, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- Jun 3, 1833
Council excommunicates Doctor P. Hurlbut. (1)

D&C 95 (Kirtland): Dimensions of the house of the Lord. For the endowment of power, Sunday services, school of the prophets. (1)

Dr. Philastus Hurlbut excommunicated for unchristian-like conduct with females. Also, Daniel Copley cut off for not going on a mission (claiming to be too weak). (2)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. A conference of high priests convened in the translating room, where Joseph Smith received a revelation on the size of the house to be built for worship and for the School of the Prophets. (3)

-- Jun 4, 1833
Conference of high priests is unable to decide how to dispose of the French farm. D&C 96: Ahashdah [Newel K. Whitney] to take manage it; Zombre [John Johnson] is to be admitted to "the order," is promised eternal life, is ordained "and he shall seek diligently to take away incumbrances that are upon the house named among you, that he may dwell therein." (1)

John Johnson is ordained to the High Priesthood, admitted to United Firm. (1)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. At a conference assembled in the translating room, Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 96, a revelation concerning the Lords order for dividing certain properties. (3)

[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 96. Newel K. Whitney to supervise the use of the French farm, where the House of the Lord is to be built. He is to divide the land into lots for inheritances as divided by the council. John Johnson, is promised eternal life. He is to be ordained, pay mortgage.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 96 heading: A Revelation to Enoch, showing the order of the city or stake of Zion, Shinehah, given for a sample to the saints in Kirtland, June, 1833.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 96. (4)

[Whitney, Newel Kimball] Appointed to take charge of Peter French farm 4 June 1833. (5)

-- Jun 5, 1833
George A. Smith hauls the first load of stone for the House of the Lord, Hyrum Smith and Reynolds Cahoon commence digging the trench for the walls. (Hyrum's diary for June 7: "... commenced making Preparation for the Building the House of the lord...") (1)

[Lucy Mack Smith] George A. Smith hauls the first load of stone while others dig the temple foundation. (6)

-- Jun 6, 1833
Kirtland. A conference of high priests chooses Orson Hyde to be clerk of "the Presidency of the High Priesthood." Building committee (Reynolds Cahoon, Jared Carter, and Hyrum Smith) to begin work immediately. (1)

[Hyde, Orson] Appointed Clerk to First Presidency 6 June 1833. Dispatched to Jackson County, Missouri, with John Gould to inform Missouri Saints to seek redress through law. (5)


Footnotes:
1 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
3 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
4 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
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
6 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books


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Mormon History, May 6, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- May 6, 1833
D&C 94 (Kirtland): The first lot is for the House of the Lord. The lot to the south is for the presidency, and to the south of that, the printing office, then Hyrum's. The two lots to the north of the Lord's are for Reynolds Cahoon and Jared Carter. (1)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 93, a sublime revelation about mankinds eternal existence and relationship to God, and also Doctrine & Covenants 94, a revelation about the construction of a house for the presidency and also a printing house. (2)

[Joseph Smith] Revelation on nature of Christ and truth, Kirtland. (3)

[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 93. The obedient will see the Lord. The Lord is the light of every person born on earth. Father and Son are one. John understood. Fulness of his record to be given later. The Lord grew from grace to grace ; hence he was called the Son of God. Frederick G. Williams , Sidney Rigdon , Joseph Smith , and Newel Knight are rebuked for failing to raise their families properly. Sidney, Joseph, and Frederick to go on their journeys speedily.
Newel K. Whitney manuscript introduction: Kirtland May 6- 1833.
Kirtland Revelations Book heading: Kirtland May 6. 1833.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 82 heading: Revelation given May, 1833.
Kirtland Revelations Book. (4)

[Revelations] Kirtland. Doctrine and Covenants 94. House of the Lord: lot and building size, two stories. Lots for presidency. Printing office: lot and building size, two stories. Lots for Hyrum, Reynolds, Jared (building committee).
Dating the revelation.
August 6, 1833/The letter in which this revelation is found, from Joseph to "Beloved Brethren," in the LDS Church Archives, is dated August 6, 1833. /JS revelations, 243. (4)

-- May 25, 1833
Uncle John Smith arrives in Kirtland, the first of Joseph Sr.'s relatives to join the church. (1)

[Smith, John] Moved to Kirtland, arriving 25 May 1833. (5)

-- Jun 1, 1833
[Black History] W.W. Phelps publishes anti-slavery editorial, (6)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 95, a revelation giving instructions for building the temple in Kirtland. (2)

[Joseph Smith] Revelation chastising Latter-day Saints for failure to build Gods house as earlier mandated, Kirtland. (3)

[Joseph Smith] Work begins on the temple in Kirtland. (7)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph announces the construction of the Kirtland temple. (8)

-- June 1 or 3, 1833
[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 95. Many ordained, few chosen. Build a house (dimensions) where the chosen can be endowed with power from on high. Contentions arose in the school of the prophets. Jesus Christ's titles.
The Kirtland Council Minute Book dates this revelation June 3, 1833.
Kirtland Revelation Book, 59-60 heading: Kirtland June 1st 1833.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 95 heading: Revelation given June, 1833. (4)


Footnotes:
1 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
3 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
4 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
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
6 - http://www.xtimeline.com/events.aspx?q=Bif200802111550260291166
7 - http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org/joseph_smith_timeline
8 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books


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Mormon History, about Apr 13, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- about Apr 13, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith responded by letter to Jared Carters brother, who had inquired about the duties of Church officers and preparations for going to Zion. (1)

-- Apr 18, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] About 300 old settlers in Independence plan to eject the Mormons. There had been acts of violence as early as the spring of 1832. (2)

-- Apr 21, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith responded to an epistle the brethren in Missouri sent in February. (1)

-- Apr 27, 1833
We perceive by a letter from Independence, Missouri, to the Editor of the Cincinnati Journal, that difficulties have already began in the Mormon community, at Mount Zion, in that quarter; one of the members having sued the Bishop, in a court of justice, for fifty dollars, which had been sent by the plaintiff to the said Bishop, from Ohio, "to purchase an inheritance for himself and the saints of God in Zion in these last days." This was certainly a most impious act, but "nevertheless and notwithstanding," the jury found for the plaintiff; it appearing that though the good bishop had indeed appropriated the money "to the purchase of an inheritance," yet he had, unthoughtedly no doubt, procured the deed to be drawn in his own name, to his heirs, &c. and no one else in Zion nor out of it. The writer states that on this decision several other members are ready to make similar demands on the good bishop. "Mormonism," Ohio Republican (Zanesville, Ohio), Apr. 27, 1833.
Possible cause of change in D&C 51:3. (3)

-- Apr 30, 1833
[Jaques, Vienna] Came to Kirtland before 30 April 1833. (4)

-- During 1833 Spring
The comments of the Mormons in Missouri about freed slaves are misunderstood by other Missourians, raising hostility in the area and a manifesto against the Mormons. (5)

-- During Apr 1833
[Polygamy] to 27 Jun 1844 Marriage - Joseph to Fanny Alger, age 16 ,. Fanny Alger is Joseph's first known plural wife, whom he came to know in Kirtland during early 1833 when she, at the age of 16, stayed at his home as a housemaid. Described as "a varry nice & Comly young woman," according to Benjamin Johnson, Fanny lived with the Smith family from 1833 to 1836. Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, recalled that the prophet's "servant girl" claimed he had made "improper proposals to her, which created quite a talk amongst the people." Mormon Fanny Brewer similarly reported "much excitement against the Prophet[involving] an unlawful intercourse between himself and a young orphan girl residing in his family and under his protection." Former Mormon apostle William McLellin later wrote that Emma Smith substantiated the Smith-Alger affair. According to McLellin, Emma was searching for her husband and Alger one evening when through a crack in the barn d
oor she saw "him and Fanny in the barn together alone" on the hay mow. McLellin, in a letter to one of Smith's sons, added that the ensuing confrontation between Emma and her husband grew so heated that Rigdon, Frederick G. Williams, and Oliver Cowdery had to mediate the situation. After Emma related what she had witnessed, Smith, according to McLellin, "confessed humbly, and begged forgiveness. Emma and all forgave him." While Oliver Cowdery may have forgiven his cousin Joseph Smith, he did not forget the incident. Three years later, when provoked by the prophet, Cowdery countered by calling the Fanny Alger episode "a dirty, nasty, filthy affair." Chauncey Webb recounts Emmas later discovery of the relationship: Emma was furious, and drove the girl, who was unable to conceal the consequences of her celestial relation with the prophet, out of her house. SOURCE: Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon, p.291 At least one account indicates that Fanny became pregnant. Chauncy G.
Webb, Smith's grammar teacher, later reported that when the pregnancy became evident, Emma Smith drove Fanny from her home (Wyl 1886, 57). Webb's daughter, Ann Eliza Webb Young, a divorced wife of Brigham Young, remembered that Fanny was taken into the Webb home on a temporary basis (Young 1876, 66-67). Fanny stayed with relatives in nearby Mayfield until about the time Joseph fled Kirtland for Missouri. Fanny left Kirtland in September 1836 with her family. Though she married non-Mormon Solomon Custer on 16 November 183614 and was living in Dublin City, Indiana, far from Kirtland, her name still raised eyebrows. Fanny Brewer, a Mormon visitor to Kirtland in 1837, observed "much excitement against the Prophet [involving] an unlawful intercourse between himself and a young orphan girl residing in his family and under his protection" (Parkin 1966, 174). SOURCE: Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy, p.8 (6)

-- During spring of 1833
[Pratt, Orson] Attended School of Prophets in spring of 1833. (4)

-- May 1, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] John Smith (brother of Joseph Sr.) and family, including son George A., depart from Potsdam, New York, and arrive at Kirtland on 25 May. (2)

-- May 4, 1833
[Cahoon, Reynolds] Appointed to obtain money to build sacred edifices in Kirtland 4 May 1833. Worked on Kirtland Temple. (4)

Construction of a "school house" (late, house of the Lord, eventually, the Kirtland temple) is approved. Reynolds Cahoon, Jared Carter, and Hyrum Smith have oversight. (3)

[Joseph Smith] Joseph Smith appoints a temple building committee, the beginning of LDS bureaucracy. (7)

-- May 6, 1833
D&C 93 (Kirtland): keep commandments, see God; apostle John's record to be revealed; Godhead; preexistence, man in the begining with God, intelligence, light, truth; Joseph not keeping commandments, family must repent; translate scriptures, obtain (secular) knowledge and the laws of God for salvation of Zion. (3)


Footnotes:
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
3 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - 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
5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)
6 - http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/JS_Polygamy_Timeline.htm
7 - 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"


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Mormon History, Mar 23, 1833

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-- Mar 23, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith met with a council of high priests and elders to discuss purchasing land in Kirtland. (1)

-- Mar 26, 1833
"After much discussion," high priests in Zion accept the seven high priests sent from Kirtland to preside over the branches in Zion. The seven are Oliver Cowdery, W. W. Phelps, John Whitmer, Sidney Gilbert, Edward Partridge and his two counselors (Isaac Morley and John Corrill). (2)

Hyrum Smith leaves Kirtland on a mission to to Springfield, Erie County, Pennsylvania. Reaches Painesville. (2)

Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson begin a mission to the East. They arrive in Bath, New Hampshire, on June 7, having baptized thirteen. (2)

[Pratt, Orson] Left Kirtland with Lyman E. Johnson 26 March 1833 to preach again in East. (3)

-- During Mar 1833
Joseph Smith names Sidney Rigdon as First Counselor in the First Presidency. (4)

-- During March 1833
[Higbee, Elias] Moved to Jackson County March 1833. (3)

[Patten, David Wyman] Mission to eastern states with Reynolds Cahoon March 1833. Established several branches of Church in New York. (3)

-- Apr 2, 1833
Kirtland council. Frederick G. Williams to manage brickyard at the French farm and hire workers, also to rent the farm. Ezra Thayer to purchase Arnold Mason's tannery. (2)

[Thayer, Ezra] Appointed to purchase tannery from Arnold Mason for Church 2 April 1833. (3)

-- Apr 3, 1833
[Murdock, John] Left for New York on mission with Zebedee Coltrin 3 April 1833. (3)

-- Apr 6, 1833
Hyrum, Lyman E. Johnson and Orson Pratt , John Murdock and Zebedee Coltrin meet at Brother Winchester's "for the Purpose of Seperating" Doctor Hurlbut and L. [?] Copley. Copley to travel with John Boynton and Hurlbut with Orson Hyde "for the cause of god." (2)

-- Apr 10, 1833
Hyrum returns to Kirtland. (2)


Footnotes:
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
3 - 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
4 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv


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Mormon History, Mar 15, 1833

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-- Mar 15, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 92, a revelation concerning Frederick G. Williams. (1)

[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 92. Frederick G. Williams is received into the United Order. He is to be an active member.
Kirtland Revelations Book introduction: Kirtland 15th March 1833.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 93 heading: Revelation to Enoch, on the order of the Church for the benefit of the poor, given to the saints in Kirtland, March, 1833.
Background.
Kirtland March 15th 1833/Kirtland council, 11.
Thursday received a revelation making known that F. G. W. should be received into the United firm in full partnership agreeable to the specification of the bond.
Kirtland Revelations Book. (2)

-- Mar 18, 1833
Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams set apart as Counselors in Presidency of the Church (D&C 81 headnote). (3)

First Presidency organized with Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams (replacing Jesse Gause) as counselors to Joseph Smith. (4)

Sidney ordains Doctor Hurlbut an elder, then requests that he and Frederick G. Williams be ordained presidents of the High Priesthood, equal to Joseph, as revealed March 8. Joseph ordains them (organization of what would become known as the First Presidency). Vision promised. Many see vision of the Savior and angels. (5)

Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams set apart as Counselors in Presidency of the Church (see D&C 81 heading) and given the keys of this last kingdom (see D&C 90 heading; verse 6). (6)

The Quorum of High Priests was first organized in Kirtland. (7)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. At a meeting of high priests, Joseph Smith ordained Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams as counselors in the presidency of the Church, to which they had previously been called, as recorded in Doctrine & Covenants 81. Many of those present saw visions. (1)

[Joseph Smith] Retained Sidney Rigdon and selected Frederick G. Williams as counselors in presidency of the high priesthood, Kirtland. (8)

[Joseph Smith] The First Presidency of the Church is organized with Joseph Smith as the President, and Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams as counselors. (9)

[Lucy Mack Smith] First Presidency organized. (10)

-- Mar 18, 1833 - 5 December 1834
[1st Presidency Changes] Joseph Smith, Jr. Sidney Rigdon (never ordained an apostle) Frederick G. Williams (never ordained an apostle) Sidney Rigdon called as First Counselor; Frederick G. Williams called as Second Counselor (11)

-- Mar 23, 1833
Brethren decide to purchase Peter French farm for $5000, Elijah Smith's farm for $4,000, and a Mr. Morley's farm for $2,100. Ezra Thayer and Joseph Coe named general agents for the church. (5)


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 - Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
4 - http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
5 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
6 - http://scriptures.lds.org/chchrono/contents
7 - Richards - Little, Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, Church Chronology, Ch.66, p.306
8 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
9 - http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org/joseph_smith_timeline
10 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
11 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_(LDS_Church)#Chronology_of_the_First_Presidency


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Mormon History, Mar 8, 1833

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-- Mar 8, 1833
Lyman Wight: "ordained" second counselor in First Presidency 18 Mar. 1833 (1)

Sidney Rigdon: Ordained 18 Mar. 1833 as first counselor to Joseph Smith Jr. "to be equal with him in holding the Keys of the Kingdom and also to the Presidency of the high Priesthood" (1)

[Jaques, Vienna] Directed to consecrate property to Church and receive inheritance in Zion 8 March 1833. (2)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 90, a revelation that his counselors in the presidency, Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams, were to have increased authority and be accounted as equal with thee in holding the keys of this last kingdom. They were ordained to their new responsibilities on March 18. (3)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams are ordained as counselors in the First Presidency in a meeting of the School of the Prophets. (4)

[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 90. Joseph's sins forgiven. Keys will never be taken. Gives oracles of God to church. Sidney and Frederick are to be his counselors, equal to Joseph in holding the keys. School to train missionaries. Complete translation of the Old Testament, then preside and study. Joseph to preside over Zion in the Lord's own due time.
Newel K. Whitney Papers, box 1, fd. 12 heading: Kirtland 8th of March 1833 / A Commandment given unto Joseph saying,
Kirtland Revelations Book, 51-55, heading: Revelation given Kirtland 8th March 1833- / A Commandment given unto Joseph saying.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 84 heading: Revelation to Joseph Smith, jr. given March, 1833.
Whitney Manuscript/Kirtland Revelations Book. (5)

-- Mar 9, 1833
D&C 91 (Kirtland): Apocrypha contains many true things, mostly translated correctly, does not need to be translated. (6)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 91, a revelation concerning the Apocrypha, books which at that time were included in many editions of the Bible. (3)

[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 91. Some of the Apocrypha is true, some false. No need to translate because those who read with the Spirit will benefit, those who don't won't.
Kirtland Revelations Book heading: Kirtland 9th of March 1833 / A Revelation given concerning Apocrypha.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 92 heading: Revelation given March 1833.
Kirtland Revelations Book. (5)

-- Mar 12, 1833
Six missionaries called. Missionaries (6)

[Lyman, Amasa Mason] Appointed to travel east with William F. Cahoon on mission 12 March 1833. (2)

-- Mar 13, 1833
D. P. Hurlbut visits Joseph and they discuss the Book of Mormon. "According to my best recollection, I heard him say, in the course of conversing with him, that if he ever became convinced that the book of Mormon was false, he would be the cause of my destruction, &c." Jan. 11, 1834 entry, (6)

-- Mar 15, 1833
D&C 92 (Kirtland): Frederick G. Williams is to be received into the United Firm. 1835 D&C 93 introduction: "Revelation to Enoch, on the order of the Church for the bernefit of the poor, given to the saints in Kirtland, March, 1833." Williams is referred to as Shederlaomach. (6)


Footnotes:
1 - 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
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 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
4 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
5 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
6 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml


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Mormon History, Feb 27, 1833

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-- Feb 27, 1833
D&C 89 (Kirtland): Word of Wisdom: health guidelines with promise of health, wisdom, and deliverance from the destroying angel. (1)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 89, a revelation containing the dietary code for the Saints known as the Word of Wisdom. (2)

[Joseph Smith] The "Word of Wisdom" discourages use of tobacco, wine, and "strong drink" but encourages the use of "mild drinks" made from barley (beer). (3)

[Joseph Smith] Revelation on dietary code that became known as Word of Wisdom, Kirtland. (4)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Revelation known as the Word of Wisdom given at Kirtland (D&C 89). (5)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph receives the Word of Wisdom. (6)

[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 89. Not a commandment. Use wine for sacrament, strong drink for washing, tobacco for bruises, no hot drinks, herbs useful, meat sparingly, grain the staff of life, fruit, mild barley drinks. Promise: health, hidden treasures of knowledge, endurance, destroying angel pass by.
Kirtland Revelations Book heading: A Revelation for the benefit of the saints & -.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 80 heading: A word of wisdom for the benefit of the council of high priests assembled in Kirtland and church; and also the saints in Zion: to be sent greeting: not by commandment or constraint: but by revelation and the word of wisdom: showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days. Given for a principle with promise adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all saints who are or can be called saints.
Kirtland Revelations Book.
A Revelation for the benefit of the saints & KRB, 49-51. (7)

-- Feb 28, 1833
It is well known that Jo Smith never pretended to have any communion with angels, until a long period after the pretended finding of his book, and that the juggling of himself or father, went no further than the pretended faculty of seeing wonders in a "peep stone," and the occasional interview with the spirit, supposed to have the custody of hidden treasures; and it is also equally well known, that a vagabond fortune-teller by the name of Walters, who then resided in the town of Sodus, and was once committed to the jail of this country for juggling, was the constant companion and bosom friend of these money digging imposters. "Gold Bible, No. 5," Palmyra Reflector, Feb. 28, 1831. (1)

-- During February 1833
[Young, Brigham] Returned to Mendon, New York, February 1833. (8)

-- Mar 1, 1833
A disgruntled member successfully sues Bishop Partridge to recover the $50 he had paid for an inheritance in Zion. Chronicle of the Times (Batavia, Ohio), Mar. 30, 1833. (1)

-- Mar 2, 1833
Rev. Richmond Taggart of Cleveland writes Rev. Jonathan Goings that the previous week, Joseph told congregation in Newburg (6 miles from Cleveland) that "he had seen Jesus Christ and the Apostles and conversed with them, and that he could perform Miracles." Authority, 22-23. Original in the American Baptist Historical Society, Rochester, New York. (1)

-- Mar 3, 1833
Joseph Smith gets a revelation that the Lord is not pleased with McLellin [per Joseph Smith]. (9)

-- Mar 8, 1833
D&C 90 (Kirtland): Only Joseph to receive the oracles of the Lord. Sidney and Frederick to to be equals with Joseph in holding the keys of the kingdom. Joseph to complete Old Testament "translation," then preside and study. Tell Zion [that Joseph?] will preside over them in the Lord's own due time. They are to repent. (1)


Footnotes:
1 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
3 - 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"
4 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
5 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
6 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
7 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
8 - 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
9 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv


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Mormon History, Feb 12, 1833

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-- Feb 12, 1833
Illinois outlaws polygamy. (1)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith wrote a strongly worded letter to N. C. Saxton, editor of the American Revivalist and Rochester Observer, who printed only part of a letter Joseph had sent for publication. (2)

-- Feb 13, 1833
Kirtland high priests investigate case of Burr Riggs: accused of not magnifying call as high priest, neglecting duty, abusing elders "and treating their admonition and advice with contempt." (3)

-- Feb 14, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] William Smith marries Caroline Grant. They have two daughters, birth dates not known to me: Mary Jane and Caroline L. (4)

-- Feb 17, 1833
Joseph ordains John Johnson an elder. (3)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith ordained John Johnson an elder during an assembly in a schoolroom with a conference of elders. (2)

[Pratt, Orson] Returned to Kirtland 17 February 1833, having baptized 102 persons. (5)

-- Feb 18, 1833
Orson Pratt returns to Kirtland after a long mission and washes his hands and feet "as a testimony unto the Lord that I had warned this wicked generation, and that my garments were clean of their blood," and is admitted to the School of the Prophets. (3)

-- Feb 20, 1833
[Higbee, Elias] Returned to Cincinnati area by 20 February 1833; there ordained elder by brother, Isaac Highee. (5)

-- Feb 26, 1833
Kirtland. Burr Riggs is cut off for neglecting his duty. (3)

Zion. High priests discuss Joseph's January 11 letter to W. W. Phelps <, the Olive Leaf revelation (D&C 88:1-126), the letter of Orson Hyde and Hyrum Smith in behalf of the conference of high priests. Oliver Cowdery, W. W. Phelps, and John Corrill write an epistle for the conference to the brethren in Kirtland. (3)

-- Feb 27, 1833
Revelation known as the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89) received by Joseph Smith. (6)

Word of Wisdom revealed (D&C 89). (7)


Footnotes:
1 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
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
6 - Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
7 - http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550


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Mormon History, Jan 23, 1833

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-- Jan 23, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] School of the Prophets begins in Kirtland. (1)

-- Jan 24, 1833
[Joseph Smith] The School of the Prophets commences in accordance with a revelation of 27 Dec. 1832. (2)

[Lucy Mack Smith] The School of the Prophets begins. (3)

-- about Jan 24, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. At the beginning session of the School of the Prophets, Joseph Smith washed the feet of the brethren and administered the sacrament. (4)

-- During 1833, January
[Joseph Smith] Begins the School of the Prophets. (5)

-- During Early 1833
[Polygamy] Fanny Alger age 16, According to George D. Smith, Alger's marriage to Smith may have been attested to by several people, including Emma Smith, Warren Parish, Oliver Cowdery, and Heber C. Kimball. Compton cites Mosiah Hancock's holographic report of his father Levi's account of the marriage ceremony of Smith and Alger, and records his father's account of the negotiations between Levi and Smith in procuring their respective wives. Compton also notes that nineteenth century Mormons in Utah, including Benjamin Johnson, Heber C. Kimball and Andrew Jenson, and former Mormons Chauncey Webb and Ann Eliza Webb Young regarded the Smith-Alger relationship as a marriage. Historian Lawrence Foster asserts a claim that later Mormons may have falsely assumed there was a marriage where there was only a sexual relationship: he views the marriage of Alger to Joseph Smith as "debatable supposition" rather than "established fact". (6)

-- During Jan. 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] Jared Carter goes on a mission to Michigan where he baptizes many of the people whom Lucy taught in the summer of 1831. (This may be a second mission since David Dort's record shows that he was baptized in 1831; however, Samuel Bent, the Presbyterian deacon, was baptized in January 1833.) (3)

-- Feb 2, 1833
This day completed the translation and the reviewing of the New testament and sealed up no more to be broken till it goes to Zion. (7)

Joseph Smith, Jun., completed the translation of the New Testament. (8)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith completed a review of his inspired translation of the New Testament. (4)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph starts on his revision of the Old Testament. (3)

-- Feb 3, 1833
[Snow, Erastus] Baptized 3 February 1833 in Derby Lake, Charleston, Vermont. (9)

-- Feb 6, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith wrote a letter from the First Presidency to the Church members in Thompson, Ohio, encouraging them to continue in brotherly love, walk in meekness, watching unto prayer, that you be not overcome. (4)


Footnotes:
1 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
2 - 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"
3 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
4 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
5 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
6 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_wives_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr.
7 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
8 - Richards - Little, Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, Church Chronology, Ch.66, p.306
9 - 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


LDS History

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http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/

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http://mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com/

Clair Barrus

Cheap approach to Mormon History

An interesting article asks if someone had only $100 and wanted to get into Mormon studies, what books/ journals/ conferences/ resources would one recommend.  Several Mormon scholars weighed in, and others threw in their suggestions.  I decided to tally up the results.

Armand Mauss said regarding such an undertaking.  "Spend at least 20 hours a week in this enterprise, and in a year you will be more knowledgeable about LDS history and culture than 90% of the Saints and their leaders."

I've listed the top Church History related suggestions below -- all great suggestions for those who may want to study church history.

Books
    Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
    David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A Prince and William Robert Wright
    Mormon Sisters: Women In Early Utah by Claudia Bushman
    The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith (Essays on Mormonism Series) by Bryan Waterman
    Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930 by Thomas G. Alexander
    Mormon Mavericks: Essays on Dissenters by John Sillito and Susan Staker 

History Specific  Articles:
   Thomas Alexander: The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine (Sunstone)
   The Mormon Succession Crisis of 1844 by D. Michael Quinn (BYU Studies)
   The King Follet Sermon: A Newly Amalgamated Text by Stan Larson (BYU Studies)

History Specific Journal Recommendations:
   Journal of Mormon History
   John Whitmer Historical Association Journal

Other Journals that include history in addition to other topics:

   Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
   Sunstone
   BYU Studies

Compilations
   New Mormon Studies CD
   Gospelink.com & CD
   LDS Library CD

Conferences
   Mormon History Association Conference (& mp3s)
   John Whitmer Historical Association Conference


For a broader tally of general Mormon studies (beyond history) see here.