Mormon History, Nov 7, 1833

LDS History Chronology / Timeline
-- Nov 7, 1833
Saints driven from Jackson County, Missouri. (1)

Saints began fleeing from mobs in Jackson County, Missouri across the Missouri River and into Clay County. (2)

-- (Fri) Nov 8, 1833
Joseph Capron provided D. P. Hurlbut with a signed statement at Manchester. (3)

-- Nov 8, 1833
Meteor shower observed in New York City. Wandle Mace, 4. (4)

-- (Sat) Nov 9, 1833
Orson Hyde wrote his press release on the new hostilities in Jackson county and what what would shortly become the Mormon expulsion. The article was widely reprinted throughout the USA. (3)

-- (Tue) Nov 12, 1833
The St. Louis Republican printed a new account of the Mormon expulsion from Jackson county, contradicting Hyde's Nov. 9th press release in several particulars. (3)

-- Nov 13, 1833
The night the meteors fell in 1833, the Mormons sent men on horseback for miles about Kirtland to arouse the people. They got me up at three o'clock A.M., they claimed it was the fore-runner of some wonderful event, and it was said and believed. Prophet Jo said there would be no more stars seen in the heavens. "W. R. Hine's Statement," (Jan. 1888): 2. (4)

[4:00 a.m. Brother Davis rouses Joseph to:] see the signs in the heavens and I arrose and beheld to my great Joy the stars from the heaven yea they fell like hail stones a litteral fullfilllment of the word of God as recorded in the holy scriptures and a sure sign that the coming of Christ is clost at hand Oh how marvellous are thy works Oh Lord and I thank thyee for thy mecy u<n>to me thy servent Oh Lord save me in thy kingdom for Christ sake Amen (4)

[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith arose at 4:00 a.m. and beheld a meteor shower, which he interpreted as a sign from God that the coming of Christ was close at hand. (5)

-- (Fri) Nov 15, 1833
Joshua Stafford provided D. P. Hurlbut with a signed statement at Manchester. This was the last dated document Hurlbut collected in the Palmyra area until Nov. 28th. (3)

-- Nov 15, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Joshua Stafford and later Willard Chase (11 Dec.) sign affidavits of personal acquaintance with Joseph Smith when he organized neighbors to search for buried treasure early in 1820. These affidavits would be published in Eber D. Howe's Mormonism Unvailed in 1834. (6)

-- prob. mid-Nov 1833
Benjamin Winchester moved from Erie Co., PA to Kirtland (3)

D. P. Hulbut called upon Matilda Spalding Davison at her daughter's house in Monson, Hampdon Co., MA -- He received a letter from her requesting that Jerome Clark give him Spalding's old writings. (3)


Footnotes:
1 - Hemidakaota, http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
2 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Chronology of Church History, http://scriptures.lds.org/chchrono/contents
3 - Broadhurst, Dale R., http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
4 - Kenny, Scott, http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
5 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
6 - Quinn, D. Michael, 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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