A Gentile search party from Tully, MO, found a large cache of stolen goods near the river at Nauvoo; they kidnapped four Mormons found in the vicinity, took them to Tully and extorted their confessions. (1)
-- Jul 9, 1840
Wilford Woodruff writes from England of his dealings with a sect called The United Brethren: "I also baptized about forty preachers of the same order, and several others belonging unto other churches, and about one hundred and twenty members of the United Brethren, which opened about forty doors or preaching places, where the fullness of the Gospel would meet a welcome reception, and all this during the term of one month and five days." (2)
-- Jul 11, 1840
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith gave instructions to the high council about how to conduct disciplinary councils. (3)
-- Jul 14, 1840
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith wrote to the Saints at the Crooked Creek Branch in Illinois (later Ramus, Hancock County), approving the organization of a stake there. (3)
-- Jul 15, 1840
WESTERN WORLD, published in Warsaw Illinois reports that some residents of Hancock had begun to complain of "petty depredations... such as the loss of various small instruments of agriculture." Particularly aggrieved are some residents of Tully, Missouri, who complained of the loss of a variety of items. A depot of stolen goods identified as the Tully items are found on a farm not far from Warsaw. Tully residents stake out the depot, and take four Mormons prisoner who are found in the vicinity of the stolen items. They kidnap the four, take them across the river into Missouri, and extract confessions from three of them by tying them to trees and beating them. (2)
-- Jul 18, 1840
Snow, Lorenzo: Ordained high priest 18 July 1840 by Don Carlos Smith. (4)
-- 19Jul40
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Parable of Olive Trees - America is Zion Twelve Symbolic - Redeeming Zion means more than Missouri Nauvoo to be Scattered - U.S. in Danger - Gospel to Whole Earth Nauvoo to be Built Up Nauvoo to Become Great Ancient Scripture to Come Forth with Temple - Book of Abraham People Will Come From All Over the World to See Temple Mormons Will One Day Travile Missiouri Without Fear (5)
-- Jul 19, 1840
Benson, Ezra Taft: Baptized 19 July 1840 in Quincy, Illinois. (4)
Joseph Smith preaches in Nauvoo: "I prophecy in the name of the Lord that the state of Illinois shall become a great and mighty mountain as [a] city set upon a hill that cannot be hid and a great that giveth light to the world. The city of Nauvoo als[o] shall become the greatest city in the whole world." (2)
-- about Jul 19, 1840
Nauvoo, Illinois. While giving a discourse, Joseph Smith prophesied that the time would come when the nations of the whole earth, even this nation [the United States], will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces, and the United States Constitution (3)
-- Jul 20, 1840
Bennett, John Cook: Appointed quartermaster general of State of Illinois by Carlin 20 July 1840. (4)
Foster, Robert D: , 20 July 1840. (4)
The company of Saints who left Liverpool in June arrived in New York. (6)
Footnotes:
1 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
4 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
5 - The Parallel Joseph, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/
6 - Richards, Franklin Dewey and Little, James A., Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, Church Chronology, Ch.66, p.306
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