-- (Tue) Dec 10, 1833
Joseph Smith wrote to the Church leaders in Missouri, confessing he did not understand why God had allowed such a disaster to befall the Mormons of Jackson county. (1)
-- Dec 10, 1833
Joseph writes brethren in Missouri to use the courts, write the governor and the president, but do not sell their lands. PWJS 328-332. (2)
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith wrote a consoling letter to the Saints in Missouri who had been exiled from their homes in Jackson County. (3)
-- (Wed) Dec 11, 1833
Judge Smith in Palmyra certified the signed statement provided to D. P. Hurlbut by Willard Chase (probably written that same day).. (1)
-- Dec 11, 1833
[Lyman, Amasa Mason] Ordained high priest 11 December 1833. (4)
-- Dec 12, 1833
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Word was received that the Saints who had already fled from northwestern Jackson County, Missouri, were also about to be expelled from a southern area of that county soon to be known as Van Buren County, Missouri. (3)
-- (Fri) Dec 13, 1833
Durfey Chase certified the "integrity, truth and veracity" of Peter Ingersoll for D. P. Hurlbut at Palmyra. This was the lasted dated document obtained by Hurlbut before he departed for Ohio. (1)
Judge Smith of Palmyra certified the statement of David Stafford for D. P. Hurlbut. (1)
The Painesville Telegraph printed its "Painful Intelligence" article, telling more of the hostilities in Missouri, the whipping there of Mormon elders, etc. In an aside perhaps directed to Geauga county anti-Mormons, editor E. D. Howe said: "We fear that the party opposed to the Mormons will think themselves... enabled to cut off the offending sect." Despite his known anti-Mormon sentiments, Howe at this time became very cautious in publishing news and articles containing rhetoric directed against the LDS Church. Probably he was hoping to avoid inflaming what he saw as a potential replay of the Missouri hostilities there in his own Geauga county. Howe monitored the progress of the anti-Mormon's activities but he apparently was not a member of the self-styled "Committee" that met on occasion at the Corning house in Mentor. (1)
-- Dec 13, 1833
[Lucy Mack Smith] The first issue of the Evening and Morning Star is printed by Oliver Cowdery. (5)
-- about (Sat) Dec 14, 1833
D. P. Hurlbut departed Palmyra on or about this date. He was likely in Buffalo by mid-December and back in Geauga county a couple of days later. 16 Dec (Mon) Joseph Smith reportedly received a divine revelation in Kirtland, in which the Lord said that he had allowed afflictions to come upon the Saints in Missouri. This was perhaps the first mention among the Mormons of God knowing about the November expulsion from jackson county. (1)
-- mid Dec. 1833
Oliver Cowdery and N K. Whitney arrived back in Kirtland, with a printing press they had obtained in New York. (1)
-- Dec 16, 1833
D&C 101 (Kirtland): The Lord's sword will fall in behalf of his people. The people are not to sell their property in Jackson. (2)
Footnotes:
1 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
2 - Kenny, Scott, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
3 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
4 - 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
5 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
Mormon History Timeline / Chronology
http://mormon-church-history.blogspot.com/
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