-- prob. about the end of Nov 1833
D. P. Hurlbut reportedly wrote to Matilda Spalding Davison (perhaps from Palmyra) and told her that he had obtained from Jerome Clark the Spalding manuscript he had been looking for. (1)
-- During 1833 Nov.
[Joseph Smith] Mormons began leaving Jackson County, Missouri, and its temple site in Independence. (2)
[Oliver Cowdery] Oliver Cowdery returned from NY and set up the new printing press in the Church's printing office at Kirtland. Oliver spent the next several weeks re-printing back-issues of the Evening and Morning Star. That newspaper resumed regular publication in Kirtland with its Dec. 1833 issue and continued through Sep. 1834 with Oliver as its editor. (3)
-- During 1833 November
[Joseph Smith] Latter-day Saints fled Jackson County, migrating primarily to Clay County, Missouri. (4)
-- (Sun) Dec 1, 1833
Roswell Nichols gave D. P. Hurlbut a signed statement at Manchester. (1)
-- Dec 1, 1833
Oliver Cowdery and Newel K. Whitney arrive in Kirtland with a new press and type. (5)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Oliver Cowdery and Newel Whitney return from New York with a printing press. (6)
[Whitney, Newel Kimball] Returned to Kirtland about 1 December 1833. Worked on Kirtland Temple. (7)
-- (Mon) Dec 2, 1833
?????? The Chardon Spectator printed its "Mormons" article, passing along to Ohio readers news of the new Mormon troubles in Jackson county, from the pages of the Missouri Republican. This was a restatement of Orson Hyde's Nov. 9th press release. (1)
Peter Ingersoll and Parley Chase provided signed a statements for D. P. Hurlbut at Palmyra and Manchester. (1)
-- about (Mon) Dec 2, 1833
Josiah Jones wrote from Kirtland to D. P. Hurlbut at Palmyra, including in his letter the clipping from the Chardon Spectator (or some similar article) that reprinted Orson Hyde's Nov. 9th press release. Jones probably advised Hurlbut to quickly return to Geauga county and present his findings to the "Committee" of anti-Mormons. Jones eitehr knew in advance that Hurlbut would be in Palmyra, or he had received a letter from him there. The minimum time for a letter to travel that distance was about 3-4 days, so if Hurlbut first contacted Jones from Palmyra, that must have been during the last week of November, 1833. (1)
-- early Dec 1833
At about this time Oliver Cowdery and N K. Whitney were in New York state (probably in Canandiagua, Ontario Co.), purchashing a printing press for the Church. This was likely bought from the James D. Bemis Co. If so, Oliver may have heard that D. P. Hurlbut was in the area, collecting hostile testimony about the Mormon Smith family. (1)
-- (Wed) Dec 4, 1833
Fifty-one Palmyra residents signed their names to a statement drafted by D. P. Hurlbut or an assistant. This document signing probably occured in the context of Hurlbut's calling a meeting in Palmyra and their delivering one of his anti-Mormon lectures. (1)
Footnotes:
1 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
2 - 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"
3 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Oliver Cowdery Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
4 - Jessee, Dean, Esplin, Ronald Bushman, Richard Lyman (editors), The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, Vol. 1: 1832-1839, Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
5 - Kenny, Scott, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
6 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
7 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelation of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
Mormon History Timeline / Chronology
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