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

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- 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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