-- 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
Mormon History Timeline / Chronology
http://mormon-church-history.blogspot.com/
A lighter version of this timeline: http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/
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