[Joseph Smith Diary] Monday, May 13th 1844 /Rain this morning/ At home. At 9 A.M. called a meeting of the [Council of Fifty of the] Kingdom [of God]. 10 A.M. went to my office conversed with several of the brethren.
Sold Ellis M. Sanders 100 acres of land. Rec[eive]d 300 dollars cash and his note for $1,000 and $20 for Temple. Paid Sisson Chase $298.00 and took up note of Kimball, Taylor, and Young given for money they had borrowed for me and $10.00 to H[eber] C. Kimball.
2 P.M. Meeting of Lyceum [Council of Fifty]. Letter of O[rson] Hyde April 25th and one [of the] 26[th] read [from the] city [of] Washington. Clerk [was] instructed to answer and Lyman Wight and H[eber] C. Kimball to go and carry it. See minutes of the meeting. Adjourned at 5 [P.M.] and letter of W[illard] Richards Sec[retary of the Council] to O[rson] Hyde and O[rson] Pratt, May 13[th] 1844.
6 P.M. Steamer of "Maid of Iowa" returned from Rock River with 400 bu[shels] corn [and] 200 wheat for Temple and some for St. Louis.
8 eve Joseph went on the Maid of Iowa with Dr. Richards and returned in a few minutes. Pleasant weather. (1)
Council of Fifty meet. (2)
-- May 13, 1844, Tuesday
[William Clayton Writings] The rest of the trip was uneventful, and at 5:30 in the afternoon of May 13 Clayton arrived in Nauvoo and reported his success to the president of the church. (3)
-- May 14, 1844
[Anointed Quorum] Prayer circle meeting at 4 p.m., "few present"; anointing and endowment for Lyman Wight: "Initiating Lyman Wight--in Quorum" . (4)
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 14th Spent the fore part of the day at Br Lane's. Met at the Toulon Court House at 2 oclok according to appointment. When we arived the methodist had Collected saying they had an appointment at the same hour. We adjourned ours to Br Perrys. Before we arived at his house the M Preacher Came & wished us to hold our meeting in the Court House according to appointment. We did so. I preached & was followed by a few remarks by Elder Smith. We dissmissed our meeting & we stoped & herd the methodist preach his discourse. We spent the night at Br Lanes.
We wrote a letter to the Editor of the Times. (5)
Lyman Wight: Anointed Quorum 14 May 1844 but not second anointing (6)
The last initiation into Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed is performed. This is probably the date Joseph ordains Lyman Wight for his Texas mission and gives him "a white stone." William Law, former counselor to Joseph Smith, writes in his diary: "[Joseph] ha[s] lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and ha[s] found her a virtuous woman." (7)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Tuesday, May 14th 1844 At home. Rode out early in the morning say /about/ 7 o'clock. "Maid of Iowa" started for St. Louis Capt[ain] Repshor, Bullock Clerk, about 9 nine A.M.
About noon it was reported that the Foster party were at Marr's store sealing letters to the Governors of all the states.
This P.M. my Old Lawyer [John Reid] gave a lecture on the stand stating the difficulties I had formerly encountered. I spoke after he had closed and continued my history to the present time.
4 P.M. Prayer Meeting, few present. Prayed for Bro[ther] Woodworth's daughter who was sick. Lyman Wight was present [and anointed]. (1)
Lyman Wight: Received endowment 14 May 1844. (8)
The endowed quorum meets and Lyman Wight receives temple ordinances. (2)
-- May 14, 1844 (Tuesday)
Elders Noah Rogers and Benjamin F. Grouard landed at Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands, as the first Latter-day Saint missionaries to that group. (9)
-- May 15, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 15th A rainy day & we drove all day in the rain and stoped all night in Indian Town. Br Thayer & Son stoped at the Tavern & Elder G. A. Smith & myself spent the night at Mr Dunns. Distance 33 m. (5)
Josiah Quincy interviews Joseph Smith in Nauvoo. As a "Boston Brahmin" and soon-to-be mayor of Boston, Quincy is the first prominent American leader to request a meeting with and LDS president. In his 1883 FIGURES OF THE PAST Quincy writes: "What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? and it is by no means improbable that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: 'Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet.'" Joseph Smith shows Quincy the Egyptian Papyrus and says, "That is the handwriting of Abraham, the father of the Faithful. This is the autograph of Moses, and these lines were written by his brother Aaron. Here we have the earliest account of the creation from which Moses composed the First Book of Genesis" When questioned about an illustration on the papyrus of a snake having legs Joseph replies, "Before the Fall snakes always went about on legs, just like chickens. They were deprived
of them, in punishment for their agency in the ruin of man." After showing the mummies and papyri Joseph tells Quincy and his traveling companion, "Gentlemen, those who see these curiosities generally pay my mother a quarter of a dollar" (7)
Footnotes:
1 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1844, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
2 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
3 - Fillerup, Robert C., compiler; William Clayton Nauvoo Diaries and Personal Writings, A chronological compilation of the personal writings of William Clayton while he was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois. http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/clayton-diaries
4 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45, http://amzn.to/origins-power
5 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
7 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
8 - 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, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
9 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
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