Mormon History, Jan 14, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Frid Jan 14th 1848. I & 3 more of the Police viz E. Gardner G. D. Grant and W. J. Earl. Started at sun rise with four of the soldiers in search of Smith the deserter. We crossed the river and proceeded up the river to Knowlton settlement and gaining no information of him we separated & I & two of the soldiers went across the bluffs to Little Pidgeon & took dinner at mother Taylors. We could get no trace of him. So we started back home.
The rest of the company went along the bottom and got track of him in Mc[.] Lellands settlement where he had staid all night & borrowed a gun. From here they discovered him on a hill at a great distance. Whereupon the proceeded towards him. He hid but they soon scared him up and took him and had started home with him when we passed by there & recieved the intelligence. So we hurried on and over took them and all went in together about sunset one hour.
Mr Long now that he found he was in no danger about stealing Calkins girl, had began to boast about what he had done. That he could outwit even the police &c
We concluded to give him a round on the subject of outwitting tonight. So several of the police geathered in W. Cox shop near to Calkins where Mr Long was & we sent Wm Miller into Calkins to get a pint of whiskey as an excuse but to arrest Long. He went in got the whiskey & started and as it happened Long came out with him. Not proceeding for Miller took hold of him saying "You are my prisoner. We entend to learn you what it is to kidnap young girls in this place as you have doneyou now have got to atone for it now before you leave this place". This spoken in an austerere and commanding tone had the desired effect. It scared Long almost to death[.] He trembled like a leaf in the wind.
He was detained in Main Street while the North wind swept furiously over, untill he nearley froze. Gardner wanted him to go to a stock yard near by but he would not as he expected to have his throat cut & that was only to get him to one side for that purpose.
At length he was taken into Cox Shop where we were assured at the same time that his time had come[.] He need not expect to have friends to help him now. The atonement must be made. He must go before the Council & stand his trial but pretending to have some sympathy for him they undertook to plead with me not to report him if he would do anything fair.
After a long consultation in which all agreed that they would not divulge any thing that had passed we agreed to let him go in case he would pay four gallons of whiskey which amounted to 3.75He gave Calkins orders to let us have it & he would pay it
After all this was over & the bargain fairley made we ran upon him without mercy to suppose that we cared anything about a man marrying a girl whenever they could agree themselves. That we only wanted to let him know that we could outwit him. He was badly plagued & confessed that he did expect to die. We were bamboosing him around in this way till midnight.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 14, 1848

Brigham Young instructs Seventy's meeting: "For the first act of adultery you may forgive a man, but if a man beds with [a] woman and does it 10 times he [is] guilty."

[source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]

Mormon History, Jan 14, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 14th & 15 I spent the time at home choreing.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 13, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Thurs Jan. 13th 1848. Today Mr Long who had ran away with Calkins daughter returned accompanied by 4 soldiersthey were in search of one Saml Smith a deserter
He came to me and wanted the help of the police saying they would give any price.
Smith had been here & crossed to the East side of the river just before they came. We watched for him till mid-night.
They agreed to employ 4 of us to go tomorrow to go in search of him with 4 of them for they were afraid to go with us only in case there was as many of them for what reason I know not.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 13, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 13th Luther Scammans Address is Lamoille, Bureau Co Ill. He is situated 14 miles from Peru the termination of the canal 100 from Chicago 150 from Nauvoo. I wrote him A letter to day informing him that we should probably visit him in the spring on our way east. I also wrote A letter to Br Appleby.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 12, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Wed Jan 12th 1848. Around home all day.amen

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 12, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 12th I took my family out to a ride in the carriage. I rode through the great corn field. 2 1/2 miles through it. Saw large flocks of prairie Chickens. I shot one and brought it home. 10 m.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 11, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Tues. Jan 11th 1848. Cold day. Mostly at home.at dark went to settle a Debt between E. Warner & T. Tanner.
Prest Young wants the police to put the public guns in order.

[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 11, 1848

20-past 11â€"Council House 14th January 1848 Present of the Seventies J. Y. Z. P. A. P. R., B. L. C. Saml. Muliner, Philip B. Lewis Horace Eldridge, Welcome Chapman, Daniel Cahoon, & Jesse C Brailey, of the Twelve-Brigham Young, Heber C Kimball Talking, of the law made by the High Council, authorizing Bishop and Police to take away the liquor from individuals & let them have their pay. so that none but the Bishops sell liquor. B.Y. & H C K retired. Joseph Young opened the meeting by prayer J. Y. Bro Braley I want you to make a statement of things as they are for we have taken this method to have the Brethren, tell instead of challenging them, & tyring to proveâ€" Married a woman in Nauvoo, Rachael Taylor, (after having buried my first wife wife who was sealed to somebody else as I thought, & after I was adopted, she said she would leave me, but got me another girl to live, Polly Brally, with me, this, P B, other girl took her to the temple, & wanted Brigham to seal us. but he said hurried & would attend to it in the wilderness when we came to the Bluffs she said she meant to be married to a young woman, and the Sprit rested on me & said I should go & get my cattle, & hitch to my waggon & drove to the river & see a wife to be mine in time and all eternity. drove up side of waggon, saw a woman, Sarah Frazier, took my attention more than any other woman in my life, told Brigham I wantd that woman to live with me. he said take care of her. do what you will but take good care of her, she lived with me. & the other woman all the time saying she would leave me, told her not to leave me for she would be exposed, she said never would live with me at all, left me, then brought her back, got over here talked with Brigham, he told me to let her go where she has a mind to, he told me the other woman, might be sealed to me when opportunity presented, read the Peacemaker, & drew the idea that covenants sacred, told Brigham, that the ppl did not like us to live single & be together. Brigham then told me to get married & I was by an Elder who pronounced some kind of a Gentile ceremony Had an Intercourse with this woman, Sarah Frazier, before married Polly Brailey, said she would not live with me, and swore to it & this because I welcomed a destitute girl to my waggon Did Brigham not tell you to go to Mo & take care of Polly as she was big with a child & had no clothes for herself & baby. J C B I never understood Brigham so. Supposed I was doing right when intercourse with the woman before married B. L. C. I feel pretty strict about these matters I do not see where Braley has erred so far, only has one woman. Polly was only covenanted to him, so in this one, & if sin with this one, sin with the other hid, if you go to the strictness of the Law. You have a winters work before you. if a man is allowed to have a wife by a Gentile ceremony. why Braley not have that privilege, may be some things in it as I don’t seeâ€"has only but one at a time. Z. P. Looked at these things relative to the cir in which our Bre are in. we must get from the Gentile laws to the law of God, can’t in one moment for we have been brought in Gentile laws. Joseph & Hyrum did from time to time advise Bre for the time being, that they gave certain lenity in certain times which Bre have taken the advantage of Many a soul that meant to do right overreached the Mark. feel regard for all the 70.s Think Bre & Sis have gone into things that if the celestial law was in force cut them off see Bre go rong, but when talk with them & see that their general Spirit is to do right & go straight and be submissive then throw the mantle of charity Bre who mean to do right comit adulter if scanned down to the law of God Philip B Lewisâ€"I differ with Bo Class & think Bro Braley done wrong J. Y. Bro Pulsipher remarks are given all the remarks good don’t see how a man could understand the nature of covenants that we enter into in the temple. When we said That have no connexion with the daughters of Eve except by those that God will give us be those who have the Keys, expect this covenant not understood, not sufficiently explained to the Bre, Bro Brailey had connexion with 2 women before he went into the templeâ€"well if he did not know the covenant then he ought to have anticipated the Sp law of God. I always told the Bre to keep within boundsâ€"Bro Braily will admit that he has lost a measure of the Spirit, he admits it that shews here he has been handling tools that has cut him & he has the scar. If I was a transgressor I should ask mercy, & if it cut me of[f] from the church, well if the law take force take head of[f]â€"but I would be sared [?] & would not ask you to do anything but what the Spirit says concerning me. I say execute the law until the justice has been satisfied then draw on mercy. we only the servants of God. & we say as it is written in the vol of the Book We come to do thy will o Lord, & fulfill the lawâ€"Got to save the Bre on righteous principles Bro Braley is accomodating wants to do good, he has done good to me, & my family & I am willing to do good to him in the only way I can. & save himself & me retain the Spirit there is bribery in the world, but here there can be none. i We don’t ffl to execute the law we can’t have the spiritâ€"Brother Braley’s aint so belious a case as is in this camp Bro B is impetuous in his temper towards a womanâ€"knows something of a mans temperament & [illegible] don’t feel so tenacious about this case, he has not 2 woman at a time. There are three however, living who have been with him. he has lost the Spirit & the communion of the Spirit so he must come under it, & be baptized. if he has caused the ways of virtue & truth to be spoken evil of publicly, then it must be as publicly plaster & heald. if he could be saved witht Baptism, it would be all well, but the Spirit whispers in me it cannot be soâ€"I don’t make any decision, but that is wh it appears to me. B Y came in B.Y. I conciled Bro Braily, when his wife in Mo & family very poor & gave Braley such a severe lecture thought he would never speak to me, told him to go & get that wife from Mo. & never have anything to do with his present woman, don’t believe Bro. Braly capable of taking care of a woman, & he need not bring the present wife to me to get sealed for I wont do it, & unless he takes care of the wife bearing child & make her happy he cannot have another G. A. S. came in, B Y. If the Presidency of the Seventies put up with such treatment in their Eldersâ€"they lose the Spirit. Go & try my woman & see if you can make a covenant with her, no man can make a covenant with a woman, if her husband uses her as he ought to. J. B. I have done wrong. I know it, I never have lost anything, but could do it done wrong in covenanting with Sarah Frazier B.Y. If a man & woman comes to me & says we want to be one anothers in time & in all eternity, & I could tell them to go and live with one another & I would be responsible for all the sin. Bro Braley deceived me, & I was angry. believe he means to be a good man. he knows how to get roots and herbs but he don’t know how to give them, & I would not have him Doctor a dog for me, This woman that living with him now acts very like leaving him J. C. Braley. I will never have intercourse with a woman who is not given to me if I should want 90 years. H. S. Eldridge, stated why Rachel Taylor, left him, because he had so much intercourse with Polly J. Y. I believe we cant save Bro B without cutting him off Welcome Chapman, moved & Joseph G Hovey That Jos. C Braily be cut off form his standing in the church. carried unanimously. B.Y. & G A S in, B.Y. Brother Lewis, I want you to understand that all business, in the Priesthood done by cutting off, with uplifted hand, you know that sign don’t you for the first act of adultery you may forgive a man, but if a man beds with woman & does 10 times, ten times, he guilty B.Y. Braley not under our control now, well he has one woman the law of the land allows him that Believe you are deserving of the chastisement & receive it kindly be humble affl., if you want to be baptized don’t be in a hurry but af
ter you have received chastisment enough & feel so get baptized, a committee go & see Polly Braley & see if she needs help, then Braly see to her. B.Y. Motion that Philip B Lewis & Welcome Chapman be a committee. [illegible]

[source: Minutes, Quorum of Twelve]

Mormon History, Jan 11, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 11th I spent the day drawing wood And in the evening attended the ward meeting.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 10, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Mond Jan. 10th 1848. Was engaged in preparing to send some of the police over the river to collect means for the police. Prest Young assisted us by sending a petition. I will here insert the petition entire as it will more plainly show our situation also the situation of Winter Quarters, to wit:
To The Municipal High Council of Council Point, and all the Councils, authorities, branches, and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on the Eastern banks of Missouri, or upon the Pottawottamie lands.
Camp of Israel ) Greeting,
(
Winter Quarters ) Beloved Brethren
The Councils of this place in their deliberations for the welfare of Israel, have concluded to lay before you, by way of petition, a laconic statement of their situation, and respectfully invite your attention to the same.
It is well known to many of you, the circumstances under which the great body of the Church located here; the many inconveniences & privations we have suffered through being huddled together in such large numbers, having the great majority of the poor, and the destitute thrown on our hands â€" the many families of our brethren to take care of (who for the temporal salvation of this people enlisted in the Battalion and went to California) â€" the publi burthens consequent upon our peculiar situation; also, the large amount of able bodies and expert men drawn from this Camp to be Pioneers, in search of a home for all the Saints, and who raised no crops at this point, â€" likewise the large Spring Company of emegrants who were fitted out from here and which embraced about all who had any means in their possession; and the many heavy losses we have sustained through Indian depredations, and destruction of our cattle; all these things have contributed largely to to the impoverishment of this
Camp, and to render us in a measurably dependant and helpless condition, insomuch that at the present time, one of our Bishops has 301 individuals dependent on him for their daily bread; and those who have farmed it here are forced to leave this place, (in the spring [crossed out]) and must either go on to the mountains or recross the Missouri and begin anew.
Taking all these things into consideration â€" and having a public burthen on our shoulders of about 800 dollars, which we are unable to discharge, due to the police; a body of men who have never as yet in this church had an equivalent for their services â€" we deem it necessary to deputize a committee of their number viz: Elisha H. Groves, Luman H. Calkins, and Elias Gardner to visit your branches, and lay before the Brethren their situation, and the matters concerning the police which is needful for the people to know, and and recieve such donations as the Brethren may be disposed to give, either in teams, waggons, horses, cows, clothing of all kinds, for men, women, and children, & produce of all kinds, and who will keep an accurate [account] of whatever is given to them.
The Brethren is making this petition to you, realize that the comparatively advantageous circumstances which surrounds you, will warrant you in being liberal and benevolent, and while it will be taking a burthen off the brethren here it will only be equalizing the load, so that we may be one in all things, and it is fondly anticipated that you will shew by your hearty and liberal response to this petition that you are willing to bear equal burthens with us & sacrafice for the Gospels sake.
Hoping that this Petition will be recieved by you with that attention and exertion the case requires.
We are, &c.
Brigham Young
Heber C. Kimball
N. K. Whitney
Willard Richards
Orson Pratt
Geo A. Smith
Wilford Woodruff
Geo W. Harris
Jas Whitehead
Clerk for the High Council.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 10, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 10th I spent the day at home. The following is the address of Br W. J. Appleby Recklesstown /P.O/ Birlington co N.J.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 9, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Sund Jan 9th 1848. Was occupied today mostly in consulting with Prest Harris and some of the police on the best policy to be used to make a draw on the Brethren on the East side of the river to have them assist in paying the police

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 9, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 9th Sunday In company with Br Kington I went to Br Phineas Richards & Preached to the people. I spent the evening at home.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 8, 1848

[Minutes, Quorum of Twelve] If I [i.e., Heber C. Kimball] want a wife & Bro[ther] Pulsipher or I has a daughter, you cannot go & make overtures to her. must first ask the one who holds the keys if I have a right to get wife & if he can get a wife, then he has no right still to go to the daughter, but to her father, & if he permits then he can ask ... this is calculated to console the feelings of women, they have lost confidence in their husbands, & men have lost confidence in the 12 because of wickedness of man. telling you how to save yourselves by not touching that that ain t your own [-] any man that comes to my house & wants my wife or my daughter[,] let him come and ask me or, I will kick his d--d [damned] ass out of the doors & then knock his teeth down his throat & God justify me in it, knew a man in Nauvoo [Illinois] whose wife was solicitd from him to forsak[e] him & they were both High Priests. its degrading to a man to think of it. Men lost confidence in the 12. ... supposing Jos[eph]. Young & his Councillors [-I] have perfect confidence in Bro[ther] Joseph & council & could trust all my wifes & family in his care. well if I go away & he try to get one of my wifes from me while I live on the earth & in the flesh in the Resurrection it will be clearer on my mind that ever. Great many men & women on this side & on the other side of the river living in adultery & many go to hell unless atonement made. no woman can covenant with a man & on that covenant live with them as man & wife this always true, & I heard it from Joseph himself & my senses teach me so. I would rather that the Bre[thren] would take knifes sharp or blunt, & skin me from head to foot than be separated from the woman who has raised a large family by me, how will it look in eternity [to] see the wife one place & the children & the husband in other places. it will be a disgrace through all eternity. ...
H[eber]. C. K[imball]. one thing felt. I should be plaguily ill off to take any woman that had a husband, expect she would find out when not so well attended so that she would leave me, & if a woman leaves a good husband she will betray you.

[source: Minutes, Quorum of Twelve]
[Minutes, Quorum of Twelve]

Mormon History, Jan 8, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Sat Jan. 8th 1848. Around as usual. At dark heard President Polk message read. It was very long.

[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 8, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 8th I Spent the day at home. In the evening I went to the council House with Brs Kington & Benbow & the Twelve & herd the Presidents message of the U.S. read which took two hours & a half to read.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 7, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday Jan 7th 1848. Went to Council at ten. No business of importance. Occupied my time as usual.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 7, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 7 In Company with Mrs Woodruff I met with the quorum of the Twelve & their Ladies to partake of a feast composed of two large fat wild turkies & other rich food prepared by Samuel Wooley. We had an interesting feast & conversation upon a variety of subjects among which was the spirit of God and Holy Ghost.
It was remarked that the spirit of God en-lighteneth every man that cometh into the world. And when a man was baptized for the remission of sins & hands laid upon him for the gift of the Holy Ghost that blessing was sealed upon him & tarried with him if he was faithful & as light would recieve light & truth embrace truth the more of the Holy Ghost A man had the more power he would have & the more of the Holy Ghost would still cleave unto him and other subjects were spoken of. We spent the evening and returned home.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 6, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Thurs Jan 6th 1848. At home wrighting most all day[.] Settling police till near 11 oc P. M.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 6, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 6 I spent the day at home writing.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 5, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Wed Jan 5th 1848. Went to H. Council at ten[.] The case of Emmett came up (Coons V. S. Emmett).
The council Had a long trial[.] Emmett called on John L. Butler and others of like stamp & was proving very plainly what solemn covenants all had made while with Jas Emmett, that if they did not abide with them & stay together they should forfeit all they possessed & many more such things when President Young demanded of the Council to first decide who & on what conditions could mak a covenant to bind people togeather as it appeared Emmett had done.
The council soon confessed their entire ignorance on the subject and desired the president to give the information.
He said that no man had a right to make a covenant to bind men together. That God only had that right and by his commandment to the person holding the keys of revelation could any man legally make a covenant & all covenants otherwise made were null & of no effect.
This of course up set all Butlers Hobbies while he was endeavoring so hard to make it appear that Emmett was a very good honest man.
After some time the proposition was made that all such property belonging to any of Emmetts company in dispute be Church property which was decided.
Several present who were contending about their property gave up their titles to the church[.] Coons got some of his back & kept it not willing to yield to the decision.

[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 5, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 5th I spent the day at home writing.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 4, 1848

[Minutes, Quorum of Twelve] In Brigham Young s house. Present. B[righam]. Y[oung]., Dr. R[ichards], O[rson]. P[ratt]., W[ilford]. W[oodruff]., G[eorge]. A. S[mith]., W[illiam]. W. P[helps]., Thomas Kington, William Cooley-R[eynolds]. C[ahoon].
Talking of affairs at Garden Grove B. Y.[: O]ne of our Quorum had better go there and straiten up things.-[A]s to Dr. Roberts, he has not been baptized for the remission of sins but to commit sin. Dr. Roberts[,] as the old woman said[,] is a wase [wise] man among the men but especially among the women.-[H]e has been baptized into the church to get advantage & to cheat & grab but he believes [in] mormonism.
B. Y. wants a man to go down [to Garden Grove] who will get Roberts to confess publicly that he has no public claim there and that he has tried to scare the people away, and then cut him off from the church.
T Kington-I would have cut him off when it was found out. [B]ut he was councilled to act the part of the Gentile by Fulmer.
J[oseph]. Young came in & went out & came in again.
B. Y. to O. P.[: C]an you go[?] I could not go for all of Grove in my present circumstances. I have not a hand to chop my wood, nor do a chore for me, all my wood to cut down & chop up.
Wm. Cooley says Dr Roberts had a Pet[itio]n. for the establishment of a Post office & an organization in Garden Grove-Talking of the organizing of the Counties in Iowa & chartering the Ferry here-
Fa[ther] Allred & the Hi[gh] Council over the River have established a law that when a man steals from a Mormon he pays fourfold or takes 39 lashes[,] if a Gentile take[s] value back.
G. A. S.[:] Will the hi[gh] Co[uncil] over there be ordained Councillors or will they just act as 12 Hi[gh] Priests chosen for a temporary purpose[?]
O. P.[:] Where a Hi[gh] Co[uncil] [is] located can there be an appeal from them to any other Quo[rum] save the united Quo[rum] of the church[?]
G. A. S.[:] There can be an appeal from the Council over the river but where a High Council of a stak[e] [is] appointed with its three Presidents, and they [are] ordained, [there is] no appeal. But my opinion is that there can be an appeal from the 12 to the first Presidency-for the/y/ control all the Quorums & should have the last decision.
B. Y.[:] The Bre[thren] in G[arden] Grove can stay there till they make their outfit if they please, and be ready to start for the mountains from there.
Wm. Cooley-I ll let the Bre[thren] have all my claim on the mill, my houses & land &c in the Grove for $150.
Thomas Kington-Bre[thren] I call you all to witness that.
Sho ho is present Council of the 12 /on Garden Grove affairs/ Thos Kingdon & Wm Cooley [were] instructed to cut off Dr Robberts who was attempting to wrong the branch of their property.

[source: Minutes, Quorum of Twelve]
[Minutes, Quorum of Twelve]

Mormon History, Jan 4, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Tuesd Jany 4th 1848. Today was a busy day for the police & Bishops.
Whiskey was at this time sold by a large number of brethren contrary to law which ordained that it should only be sold by the Bishops
The consequence was drunkenness was very prevalent and at some places they became very noisey. A complaint was made to the council by Bp. Whitney of the same whereupon the Council decided (Sund last) that the police & Bishops do their duty. Which was tantemount to saying put the law in force[.] Bishops Carns & Knight made a move at it this morning & called on the police to back them up. They first demanded Mc[.] Causlins whiskey. He gave it up without any difficulty, which the Bishops paid for â€" after that they demanded several others who gave it up manly in all such cases it was paid for out of the sales of the same. Alonzo Jones closed his doors against the Bishops who broke open his door & took his barrel of whiskey.also one Ferris refused to deliver up his which was taken. We then went to the redoubtable John Pack who also kept a barrel & the Bishops made known their Business telling him at the same time that they would pay him for it
He was very independent & saucy. He told them they had no right to it. He knew the law as well as they. He did not thank them to come to his Home to teach him the law &c.
Such is a specimen of his treatment to the Bishops who bore his slang a long while endeavoring to persuade him to yield to the demands of the law not resist them or he would most surley loose his whiskey. He remained obstinate and dared them to touch it
They at last called on me to "lay hand on it which I did & the Spirit came". for the barrel was nearly full.
We now all decamped while he was pouring out a tirade of abuse & slang. We took 5 barrels today. The 3 latter was forfeited as they would not yield neither in that case would the Bishops pay. We were busy untill ten oclock P. M.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 4, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 4th President Young was still sick yet we met in Council with him at his room. The Affairs of Garden groves was talked over & the Twelve nominated Brs Scoval & Groves to go with Br Kington & settle the affair.
During the evening we had a meeting at the school house. Br Kington spoke. Was followed by Brothers Pulsipher, Porter, & several of the Sisters. The meeting then closed by A spirited address from W Woodruff. Br Kington spent the night with me.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 3, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Mond Jany 3rd 1848. N. wind. Very cold day. Mostly at home writing. Police met at dark at Cox Shop[.] Hoaxed Martindale for waring the Crown of Baalam.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 3, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 3 I went with Br Kington to the office to meet in council with President Young But He was sick & not able to attend And we returned home.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 2, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Sund Jan 2nd 1848. Clear & pleasant weather. Went to Council at ten. Decided not to attend to temporal cases any more on Sunday. Several cases laid over. After Council I was around town the rest of the day.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 2, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 2d Sunday I met with the Saints in our ward. I addressed them & was followed by Br Pulsipher. Br Kington Arived from garden grove & spent the night with me.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Jan 1, 1848

[Hosea Stout Diary] Saturday January 1 1848. Clear & pleasant day. The police were out on what we called a police spree.
There were some persons in this place who were trying to set up a gambling table and to find out how the matter stood several of us went into a drinking spree with some who were concerned in it. They soon got high enough to develop their plans and thus we learned all about it
At dark the police met at the Council House with their wives and friends & had an agreeable party till Twelve at night. Police commenced on guard by 3 tours pr night.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Jan 1, 1848

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Saturday January 1st During the evening in company with Mrs Woodruff I went to Br Wilds to spend A new years evening.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Fall 1847

[Black History] Black Indian "prophet", William McCary seduces a number of Mormon women into his own polygamy rites. McCary was subsequently excommunicated.

[source: Crapo, Richley, Chronology Pertaining to Blacks and the LDS Priesthood, http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/node/62]

Mormon History, Ca. 1847

[Nauvoo Temple] During this year Louris R. Chaffin made a daguerreotype of the Temple. A copy is presently owned by the Cedar City, Utah, chapter of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.

[source: Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]

Mormon History, Before 1847

William E. McLellin starts "The Church of Christ" asks David Whitmer to lead it. Five of the 11 witness join. (Oliver Cowdery sympathetic but does not join.)

[source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]

Mormon History, 1847-52

[Ute Indians] William C. Sturtevant (1986); Howard A. Christy, Howard A., "Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, ," Utah Historical Quarterly, 46 (Summer 1978); Fred A. Conetah, A History of the Northern Ute People (1982); Joel C. Janetski, The Ute of Utah Lake, (1991); Joseph G. Jorgensen, The Sun Dance Religion: Power for the Powerless (1972); Anne Milne Smith, comp., Ute Tales (1992); Uintah-Ouray Ute Tribe, Stories of Our Ancestors: A Collection of Northern Ute Indian Tales (1974). 1847-52

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Ute Indians, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/u/UTES%2CNORTHERN.html]

Mormon History, 1847-51

Zebedee Coltrin: Mission () 1847-51

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847-48

Orson Hyde: Missions (1846-47, ) 1847-48

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847-1848

[Periodicals] California Star, The; E.P. Jones    Yerba Buena (San Francisco), California (News Paper)

[source: Ludlow, Daniel H. editor, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.4, Appendix 3: Church Periodicals, http://amzn.to/eG0DIp]

Mormon History, 1847 to 1877

[Colonizing Utah] See: Milton R. Hunter, Brigham Young the Colonizer (1940); Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter Day Saints, 1830-1900 (1958); Eugene E. Campbell, Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69 (1988); Joel E. Ricks, Forms and Methods of Early Mormon Settlement in Utah and the Surrounding Region, (1964); Wayne L. Wahlquist, ed., Atlas of Utah (1981); Richard Sherlock, "Mormon Migration and Settlement after 1875," Journal of Mormon History 2 (1975); and Leonard J. Arrington, "Colonizing the Great Basin," The Ensign 10 (February 1980). 1847 to 1877

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Colonizing Utah, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/COLONIZATION.html]

Mormon History, 1847 to 1852

[Orson Hyde] Hyde's first major contribution to Utah's settlement began with his appointment to head the Mormon colony at Winter Quarters (Iowa/Nebraska) from . In this capacity he served as mayor and probate judge of this frontier town with a population at times in excess of 16,000. His chief effort was in organizing and sending immigrant trains to Utah. He also left his mark on this early settlement with his three-year editorship of his newspaper, the Frontier Guardian. 1847 to 1852

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Orson Hyde, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/h/HYDE%2CORSON.html]

Mormon History, 1847 to 1850

[Wilford Woodruff] Fulfills several assignments to help the Saints migrate to Salt Lake City from Winter Quarters and the eastern United States.

[source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah]

Mormon History, 1847 and 1871

[Schism] Church of Christ (Whitmerite); William E. M'Lellin and David Whitmer (organizer); Split off/Continuation of; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Extant until around 1925; William E. M'Lellin claimed that Joseph Smith, Jr. had designated David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses, as his successor. By 1925, most remaining members of the Whitmerite church had united with the Church of Christ (Temple Lot); Prarie Saints (RLDS) group.

[source: Wikipedia, List of Sects in the Latter-Day Saint Movement, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_sects_in_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement#Before_the_schism]

Mormon History, 1847

[Word of Wisdom] Brigham Young and the pioneers arrive in Salt Lake City, declaring "This is the place."

[source: Harward, Randy; Utah Brewing Timeline, Salt Lake City Weekly, Aug 24, 2011]

Mormon History, 1847

William E McLellan: Published Ensign of Liberty in Kirtland . 1847

[source: 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]
[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]

Mormon History, 1847

Willard Richards: Married Susan Bayliss about . One child: Mary Ann. 1847

[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]
[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Wilford Woodruff: Returned to Winter Quarters late . 1847

[source: 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]
[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]

Mormon History, 1847

[Ute Indians] Beginning in , Utes experienced the full impact of Euro-American contact with the arrival of Mormon settlers. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Ute Indians, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/u/UTES%2CNORTHERN.html]
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Ute Indians, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/u/UTES%2CNORTHERN.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Utah Statehood] In July the Mormon pioneers began entering the Salt Lake Valley. After years of persecution in the Midwest they realized the advantages of self-government, but the land they had come to belonged to Mexico. 1847

[source: Thatcher, Linda, History to Go, Statehood Chronology, http://www.onlineutah.com/statehoodchronology.shtml]

Mormon History, 1847

[Utah Legal History] For many years, Utahns relied on Mormon Church institutions for civil government. After the arrival of the Mormons in the Salt Lake Valley in , an ecclesiastical council and a marshal directed municipal affairs. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Utah Legal History, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LEGALHISTORY.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Utah Indians] The Mormons settled in the Salt Lake Valley in -- a neutral or buffer zone between the Shoshone and Ute peoples. Conflict between Mormons and Indians did not really begin until Mormons extended their settlements south into Utah Valley--a major trade crossroads and subsistence area for the Ute people. Brigham Young espoused a moderate Indian policy in line with Mormon theological beliefs that Indians were "Lamanites," with an ancestry in the tribes of Israel. Young counseled that it was cheaper to feed than to fight the Indians, and he instituted some token missionary efforts among them. Yet, as Mormon settlement expanded north and south along the front range, conflict increased with Indians displaced from traditional subsistence areas. Young countered Ute raiding with an iron fist. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Utah Indians, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/n/NATIVEAMERICANS.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Utah Immigration] Spanish explorers and French-Canadian, British, and Canadian fur traders had briefly sojourned in Utah before ; but it was in that year that Mormon immigrants from Britain, Canada, Denmark, and Norway, who were among the vanguard of the Mormon exodus from Illinois, became the first non-Native American immigrants to Utah. After securing a precarious foothold in Salt Lake Valley and helping move their Nauvoo refugees to Utah, Brigham Young and the Mormons turned much of their attention to proselytizing abroad and gathering converts to their new Zion. The vast majority of the convert immigrants settled in present-day Utah, although several thousand also moved on to help establish communities in present-day Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. Recruits from abroad were a major component of the Saints' attempt to establish temporal control over the area which sociologists would later dub the Mormon Culture Region. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Utah Immigration, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/i/IMMIGRATION.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Utah] Brigham Young leads Mormons into the Salt Lake Valley, encroaching on Indian territories.

[source: Utah's People of Color: American Indians, Will Bagley, http://www.sltrib.com/12271998/utah/70121.htm]

Mormon History, 1847

[The West] July 24 First wagon train of LDS arrive in Salt Lake Valley.

[source: Hale, Van, Mormon Miscellaneous, Rocky Mountain Prophecy, http://www.mormonmiscellaneous.com/radioprogramblog/id8.html]

Mormon History, 1847

The settlement of Salt Lake City was not typical in many ways of the westward movement of settlers and pioneers in the United States. The people who founded the city in were Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They did not come as individuals acting on their own, but as a well-organized, centrally directed group; and they came for a religious purpose, to establish a religious utopia in the wilderness, which they called the Kingdom of God on Earth. Like the Puritan founders of Massachusetts more than 200 years earlier, Mormons considered themselves on a mission from God, having been sent into the wilderness to establish a model society. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Salt Lake, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/s/SALTLAKECITY.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Plains] Mississippi Company begins crossing plains

[source: Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868, Chronological Company List, http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanylist-chronological/0,15765,3968-1,00.html]
[Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868, Chronological Company List, http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanylist-chronological/0,15765,3968-1,00.html]

Mormon History, 1847

Parley Parker Pratt: Called again to England . 1847

[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]
[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Orson Hyde: Presided over Church at Winter Quarters -50. 1847

[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]
[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

[Oregon Trail] A new destination opens as Brigham Young leads the Mormon Brigade to Utah. The 2000 souls on the trails this year include many non-Mormons bound for Oregon and California.

[source: Clackamas Heritage Partners, http://www.historicoregoncity.org/HOC/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=107Itemid=75]

Mormon History, 1847

While the majority of the more than 60,000 Mormon immigrants (up to the coming of the railroad in 1869), the `49ers, Johnston's Army, and the Pony Express followed the pioneers of into the Great Salt Lake Valley, the Mormon Trail was not the only route through the Wasatch Range. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Mormon Trail, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/m/MORMONTRAIL.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Mormon Trail] The Mormons of actually blazed only about one mile of the entire trail from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City--the remaining mile from Donner Hill into the valley. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Mormon Trail, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/m/MORMONTRAIL.html]

Mormon History, 1847

Lorenzo Snow: Located in Mt Pisgah; presided over Church there -48. 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

[Labor in Utah] When the Mormons entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in , they brought with them a tradition, albeit a short one, of craft and merchant guilds in their short-lived capital, the city-state of Nauvoo, Illinois. Contributing to this tradition was the heavy influx of working-class converts from Great Britain with their experience in the growing British trade union movement, along with workers from the not yet industrialized northeastern states. In the seven years of Nauvoo's Mormon history, guilds were established among at least the tailors, smiths, boot and harness makers, coopers, actors, wagonmakers, spinners, and printers--apparently with the blessings of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Labor in Utah, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LABOR.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Journalism] Brigham Young began efforts to secure a printing press and type even before he reached the Salt Lake Valley in . 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Journalism, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/j/JOURNALISM.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[John Taylor] Returns to Winter Quarters from England. Leads a large company of Saints to Utah, arriving in October.

[source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor, Salt Lake City, Utah]

Mormon History, 1847

John Smith: President of Salt Lake Stake -48. 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

[John D. Lee] Lee was a member of the "Council of Fifty," an organization of Mormon leaders. Lee's role proved to be as a clerk and purchasing agent, positions in which his skills proved valuable. When the first party of pioneers left for the Great Basin in , Lee and his family stayed in Iowa, sixteen miles north of Winter Quarters at "Summer Quarters," to farm and raise crops for those left behind and others to follow. On his own journey across the plains the next year, he was appointed a "Captain of Fifty" and secretary of the train by Brigham Young. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: John D. Lee, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LEE%2CJOHN.html]

Mormon History, 1847

Isaac Morley: Left Nauvoo . 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

[Hosea Stout] In organizing for the journey west in , Stout was asked to travel with the company in April and then with the one in June, but for various reasons did not. One month after the first company left, Hosea was put in charge of ten rangers to guard the grazing livestock of those left at camp. And on 8 October he was asked to accompany a group west to meet the returning pioneer company. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Hosea Stout, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/s/STOUT%2CHOSEA.html]

Mormon History, 1847

Heber Chase Kimball: Member of First Presidency -68. 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Heber Chase Kimball: Located in Winter Quarters until . 1847

[source: 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]
[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]

Mormon History, 1847

[Heber C. Kimball] In he became First Counselor to Brigham Young, who had succeeded Smith as president of the church. 1847

[Utah History Encyclopedia: Heber C. Kimball, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/k/KIMBALL%2CHEBER.html]
[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Heber C. Kimball, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/k/KIMBALL%2CHEBER.html]

Mormon History, 1847

George Miller: Journeyed to Austin, Texas, to join Lyman Wight. 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Brigham Young officially becomes the second Prophet of the Mormon church (Deseret News Almanac, 1079, p. 92).

[source: Watchman Fellowship Inc, Historical Events, Notable Doctrines: Mormonism Overview, http://www.watchman.org/lds/ldshst96.htm]

Mormon History, 1847

Zebedee Coltrin: High council 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Wilford Woodruff: Captain, reorganized Nauvoo Legion, Winter Quarters 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Oliver Cowdery: Expressed interest in LDS church spring 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Luke S Johnson: Captain, Winter Quarters Nauvoo Legion 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Jedediah M Grant: Mission 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Heber C Kimball: Military aide-de-camp to Brigham Young 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Hazen Aldrich: High council in Strang's Voree stake 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Ezra T Benson: Captain of Nauvoo Legion at Winter Quarters 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Brigham Young: Vision of Joseph Smith Jr. , vision of Salt Lake temple, 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

The phonetic alphabet was invented by Isaac Pitman and Alexander John Ellis by -- a precursor of the Deseret Alphabet. 1847

[source: Grunder, Rick, Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source]

Mormon History, 1847

(Willard Richards) Called to be Brigham Young's first counselor in the newly reorganized First Presidency.

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(W. W. Phelps) Phelps married three women in Saint Louis without Church permission. On December 6 the Twelve voted that "W. W. Phelps be cut off from the Church for violating the laws of the priesthood in having women that do not belong to him & committing adultery with them."

[Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(W. W. Phelps) Married three women while on a trip to Saint Louis, but the marriages were later annulled by Brigham Young.

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Sidney Rigdon) Insisting his followers establish a communitarian society on Pennsylvania farmland, Rigdon threatened to wreak blood and vengeance upon opposing local residents. Despite his long opposition to polygamy and his published condemnations of its practice, Rigdon introduced a form of polygamy within his declining commune,which totally disintegrated by . 1847

[Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Porter Rockwell) A member of the Council of Fifty since 1844, Rockwell was guide and chief hunter for the Brigham Young pioneer company. When camp hunters argued about whether a buffalo could be dropped with a frontal shot to the head, Rockwell deftly maneuvered his mount ahead of a large bull and fired point-blank into the shaggy forehead. "The ball just stirred up a little dust is all. That old bull shook his head like he was brushing off a fly and kept right on coming. I had to move pretty fast to get out of his way."

[Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Martin Harris) Became president of the Quorum of the Twelve at Council Bluffs, Iowa, a position he held for twenty-eight years. In 1875 Brigham Young reordered the Quorum of the Twelve, giving Hyde and Orson Pratt seniority according to the dates of their return to the Quorum, rather than their original ordinations. Otherwise, at the death of Brigham Young in 1877, Orson Hyde would have been the senior apostle.

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Jesse Knight) Jesse's father died crossing the plains in . Brigham Young appointed a family to care for one of Lydia's wagons and ox teams, but when they arrived in Utah the family insisted that President Young had given them the wagon and oxen. Despite pleas to the Church president, the property was never returned, and Jesse remained disaffected from the Church for nearly forty years as a result. 1847

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Heber C. Kimball) In Iowa a rattlesnake bit one of his horses. He laid his hands on the animal's head, rebuked the poison, and declared to bystanders, "It is just as proper to lay hands on a horse or an ox and administer to them in the name of the Lord, and of such utility, as it is to a human being, both being creatures of His creations, both consequently having a claim to His attention."
. Kimball entered the Salt Lake Valley with the rest of the pioneer company in July; he returned the following month to Winter Quarters. In 1848 he led another wagon train of 66 family members and 556 others to Salt Lake. His company included 226 wagons, "1,253 horses, mules, and cattle, plus sheep, pigs, chickens, cats, dogs, goats, geese, doves, a squirrel, and some beehives." 1847

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Heber C. Kimball) Brigham Young selected Kimball to be his second counselor in the First Presidency. Ever obedient to his president, Kimball told the Saints, "If brother Brigham tells me to do a thing it is the same as though the Lord told me to do it. This is the course for you and every other Saint to take, and by taking this course, I will tell you, brethren, you are on the top of the heap."

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Green Flake) One of three black servants in the pioneer company, Green drove James Flake's white-topped carriage used by Brigham Young during the trek and entrance into the Salt Lake Valley. By Green's own account, he was "in the first wagon through Emigration Canyon."

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Green Flake) "When Brigham Young commenced fitting out a train to take the first of the Pioneers across the Great Plains, he needed the very best teams and outfits to be had. James M. Flake, who had put his all upon the altar, sent his slave, Green, with the mules and mountain carriage, to help the company to their destination. He told Green to send the outfit back by some of the brethren, who would be returning, and for him to stay and build them a house. Like the old slaves he faithfully carried out his instructions."

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Erastus Snow) July 21: Erastus Snow and Orson Pratt became the first Mormons to enter the Salt Lake Valley. "We involuntarily, both at the same instant, uttered a shout of joy at finding it to be the very place of our Destination and the Broad Bosom of the Salt Lake spreading itself before us."

[Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Erastus Snow) A member of the Council of Fifty, Snow went to Utah with the pioneer company. En route, Brigham Young chided him for failing to prevent company cattle from mixing with a buffalo herd: "It is a regular built dressing which I got from him this morning. … In attempting to exonerate myself from blame, I drew from him a severer chastisement; it is the first I have had since I have been in this Church, which is nearly fifteen years, and I hope it may last me fifteen years to come."

[Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Chief Walker) When Brigham Young declared Salt Lake Valley "the right place" for Mormon pioneers, Wakara's band was camped seventy miles southeast in Spanish Fork Canyon. Ute tradition holds that Wakara attempted to incite a band of young firebrands to oppose white settlement; his elder brother, the wise Sowiette, needed a horsewhip to drive home the finer points of his argument opposing violence.

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Chief Walker) Mormon tradition has it, however, that Wakara had envisioned the coming of white people: "He died and his spirit went to heaven. He saw the Lord sitting upon a throne dressed in white. The Lord told him he could not stay, he had to return to earth, that there would come to him a race of white people that would be his friends, and he must treat them kindly."

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

(Brigham Young) President Brigham Young led the pioneer vanguard to the Salt Lake Valley and directed colonizing efforts in more than two hundred settlements. He was appointed governor of the Provisional State of Deseret (1849) by the provisional legislature, organized the "Perpetual Emigration Fund" (1849), established the Deseret News, with Willard Richards as editor (1850), and was appointed governor of Utah Territory by President Millard Fillmore (1850).

[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

The Mormon Battalion arrived in California, and the company of Pioneers, under the leadership of Pres. Brigham Young, crossed the plains and mountains to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, where they founded Great Salt Lake City. After the return to the Missouri river the First Presidency of the Church was reorganized. About two thousand souls and nearly six hundred wagons arrived in G. S. L. Valley in the fall.

[source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

Mormon History, 1847

Oliver Cowdery moves to Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

[source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]

Mormon History, 1847

Newel Knight dies.

[source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]

Mormon History, 1847

Ezra Taft Benson: Returned to Winter Quarters . 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Ezra Taft Benson: Mission to East -48. 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon: Did not migrate west with main body of Saints . 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

[Eliza R. Snow] She traveled across the plains with the Mormon migration, leaving a detailed diary of the journey. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Eliza R. Snow, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/s/SNOW%2CELIZA.html]

Mormon History, 1847

Knowing that time was critical, they made a swift dash across Nevada, but with no rest the stock could not make the pull over the Sierras before early snows blocked the high passes in late October. Of the eighty-two, forty-seven survived the starvation and cannabalism to be rescued by parties coming east from Sutter's Fort in February and March, . Thirty-five perished in the snow and cold of the Sierra Nevadas, while five died before they reached the mountains. Two Indians also lost their lives in the rescue attempts. The Donner Party's fate insured that the Hastings cutoff would not be used by later wagon trains. However the trail they cut through the Wasatch Mountains was the main road into Utah for a decade. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Donner Party, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/d/DONNER.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Deseret] The Mormon High Council of Great Salt Lake City authorized James Brown to purchase Fort Buenaventura from Goodyear for $1,950. The fort, the outbuildings, and all of the animals except Goodyear's horses became Mormon property.

[source: History to Go, Trappers, Traders and Explorers, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html]
[History to Go, Trappers, Traders and Explorers, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Deseret] Jim Bridger meets the Mormon pioneers and discusses the merits of settling in the Salt Lake Valley, draws a map on the ground depicting the region with great accuracy, and conveys to Brigham Young his misgivings regarding the agricultural productivity of the Salt Lake area.

[History to Go, Trappers, Traders and Explorers, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html]
[source: History to Go, Trappers, Traders and Explorers, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Deseret] Three African-American slaves, Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, come west with the first pioneer company.

[source: History to Go, Pioneers and Cowboys, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/pioneersandcowboys.html]
[History to Go, Pioneers and Cowboys, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/pioneersandcowboys.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Deseret] The primary establishment of settlements in Utah marked the founding of the north-south line of settlements from Cache Valley on the Idaho border, along the Wasatch Front and Wasatch Plateau, down to Utah's Dixie on the Arizona border.

[source: History to Go, Pioneers and Cowboys, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/pioneersandcowboys.html]
[History to Go, Pioneers and Cowboys, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/pioneersandcowboys.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Deseret] Migrating with the Ira Eldredge Company, Isaac and Jane Manning James and their sons Sylvester and Silas were the first free blacks to settle in Utah.

[source: History to Go, Pioneers and Cowboys, http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/pioneersandcowboys.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Danites] There is incontrovertible evidence that a few "rough-rider" type minute men were appointed by Brigham Young as early as to act as lawmen in the new Mormon settlements on the plains, and later in the Salt Lake Valley. This was necessary in the absence of any civil administration. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Danites, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/d/DANITES.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Chief Wakara] In Mormon entered Ute lands. At first Wakara accepted their arrival, even inviting them to settle. He was in hopes they would prove useful trading partners as had the fur traders, most of whom had abandoned the area. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Chief Wakara, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/w/WAKARA.html]

Mormon History, 1847

Brigham Young: Married Lucy Bigelow . 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, 1847

As a church leader, Brigham Young stood in marked contrast to his predecessor, the charismatic, idealistic, and theologically innovative Joseph Smith. Instead, Young inspired his followers by his down-to-earth demeanor and through his skills as a pragmatic organizer and executive. His emphasis in both his actions and sermons was on the practical means essential for building up the Kingdom of God in a frontier environment. Only rarely did Young venture into the realm of theological and doctrinal innovation and then with mixed results. His pronouncements emphasizing blood atonement and the Adam-God theory had minimal impact on the long-range course of Mormon theological development. More important was Young's implementation of denial of the Mormon priesthood to blacks, a practice that remained in effect until its repeal in 1978. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Brigham Young, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/y/YOUNG%2CBRIGHAM.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Black History] First slaves brought to Utah by LDS members. Slavery is practiced until 1862, when it is abolished by Congress in all territories.

[source: Crapo, Richley, Chronology Pertaining to Blacks and the LDS Priesthood, http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/node/62]

Mormon History, 1847

[Black History] Elijah Abel arrives in Utah, a free man. A carpenter by trade, he works on building the Salt Lake Temple. He and his wife Mary Ann manage the Farnham Hotel. Mary Ann Abel was Negro according to the 1850 Hamilton County Ohio census and 1860 Utah census.

[source: Crapo, Richley, Chronology Pertaining to Blacks and the LDS Priesthood, http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/node/62]

Mormon History, 1847

[Black History] Brigham Young declares Blacks ineligible for certain temple ordinances, potentially reactionary to the William McCary affair.

[source: Crapo, Richley, Chronology Pertaining to Blacks and the LDS Priesthood, http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/node/62]

Mormon History, 1847

[Black History] Salt Lake slaves congregate in hall on State St.,

[source: http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Chronology-Pertaining-to-Blacks-and-the-LDS-Church]
[http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Chronology-Pertaining-to-Blacks-and-the-LDS-Church]

Mormon History, 1847

Amasa Mason Lyman: Returned to Winter Quarters . 1847

[source: 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]
[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]

Mormon History, 1847

[Albert Carrington] During the exodus of the Saints from Nauvoo and their difficult period in the camps at Council Bluffs and Far West, three of the Carringtons' four children died. Carrington was chosen by Brigham Young to be a member of the Council of Fifty, the chief administrative body of the church, and was a member of the pioneer party to the Great Basin in . He returned to Iowa to move his family to Salt Lake City and became very prominent in Utah political and administrative affairs. He served as assessor, collector of taxes, treasurer of the provisional government of Utah, one of the men who helped draft a constitution for proposed statehood, speaker of the house in the new government, and personal secretary to Brigham Young. He also entered the practice of polygamy by taking a second wife. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Albert Carrington, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/CARRINGTON%2CALBERT.html]
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Albert Carrington, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/CARRINGTON%2CALBERT.html]

Mormon History, 1847

Although permanent settlement of African Americans in Utah began with the arrival of Brigham Young's advance party in July of , there was a black presence in the area almost twenty-five years before the arrival of the Mormons. 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: African Americans in Utah, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/a/African_Americans.html]

Mormon History, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Thus end annother Year which has been interesting and important year to the Saints. The Twelve Apostles with their brethren, one hundred and fourty three souls As pioneers have made A journey more than one thousands miles to the Rocky mountains And sought out A place for A city, A stake of Zion, And A Temple of the Lord that the saints may have A place to flee to while the indignation of the Lord passeth over the nation that hath driven them out. Our Journey to the mountain, & back again to winters Quarters with Horse mule, and Ox teams has been over 2,000 miles. More than half of the Journey we have had to make new roads & with all of our exposures, sickness, & dangers not A Human life has been lost but all returned in safety. And what is more singular still, not A Horse mule ox, cow, or calf was lost either going or returning except 2 Horses shot by disobeying council.
The blessing of the Lord has been great upon us as A people during the past Year in all the various portions of the camp of Israel.
We have now found A place to build A Stake of Zion whare the people can gather toagether & build up Zion. The past year has shown forth the fulfillment of Prophecy in the wars, rumours of wars, famins, Pestilence, distress of nations with perplexity And in many of the signs of the times. The United States in their wars with the feble Nation of Mexico have involved themselve in a debt of one hundred and fifty millions of dollars besides the loss of twenty five thousand men & twice that number to Mexico And their own expenses in the war. The famine has raged in Ireland, the cholera through Europe. The breaking of Banks & merchants has distressed the people in England. The Baron Rothchilds the rich Jew has become A member in the British Parliament which is A new eary in the History of the Jews, & they the Jews are gathering home to Jerrusalem by thousands. What 1848 will bring to pass in the History of the Church and Kingdom of God time must determin And also in the History of the Nations of the Earth. May the LORD hasten the gathering of Israel & the Building up of Zion for Jesus Christ Sake Amen.



[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, December, 1847

Augusta Adams Cobb Young (Brigham Young's 2nd plural wife) wrote Amey Cecilia Cooper Aldrich (Brigham Young's 34th wife) in the form of a matriarchal blessing, as it were, "Thou shalt have powr to save thy kindred and if thous canst believe thou shalt have powr to influence your husband to sell of[f] all and gather with the Saints and go over with them next Spring, taking your Children along with you for their never will be so good and [sic] opportunity again. ... This blessing dear sister I seal upon your head ^in the name of Jesus C^ by virtue of the priesthood vested in me amen."

[source: Letter, O'Donovan, Connell, "Augusta Adams Cobb Young: Priesthood Holder," Journal of Mormon History Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2012]

Mormon History, December 1847

[Utah Legal History] In a General Council took over the affairs of civil government. Bishop's courts for local wards provided a judicial process, with ecclesiastical high councils serving as appellate courts. Bishops, stake high councils, and the LDS First Presidency officiated as courts. Police power was placed in the Nauvoo Legion, and law enforcement officers were appointed. Church tithes and offerings served as community revenues. December 1847

[source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Utah Legal History, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LEGALHISTORY.html]

Mormon History, December 1847

Orson Hyde purchases another printing press and type (a Washington) which is shipped to Kanesville, Iowa.

[source: Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984]

Mormon History, December 1847

Apostle Parley P. Pratt and others visited the Utah Lake, where they launched a boat.

[source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

Mormon History, December 1847

Erastus Snow: Appointed to take mission to eastern states with Ezra T. Benson . December 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, Dec 1847

Brigham Young says of a Black Mormon in Massachusetts who married a white woman that he would have them both killed if they were far away from the Gentiles.

[source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]

Mormon History, Dec 31, 1847

[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday Dec 31st 1847. Warm & clear comfortable to go without coat. Rich & Ripley went to Belvue. I was employed in writing police orders &c.
Clouded up Hard wind North Blew Hard very cold evening. The year is past and gone!What is our fate for the next?

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Dec 31, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 31st This is the last day of 1847. I went to the mill and got 8 bushels of wheat ground. I had An interview with President Young in the morning upon A variety of subjects among which was the object of going east on a mission. We were introduced to Mr Mulholand from Nauvoo And herd letters read from there. Help me keep thycommandments O Lord.

[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, 1847

Church Membership at end of year: 34,694
New Converts : 701
Percent Change from previous year: 2.06%

[source: Wikipedia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Membership History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history]

Mormon History, year end 1847

Salt Lake City population is 1,700.

[Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984]
[source: Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984]

Mormon History, Dec 30, 1847

[Hosea Stout Diary] Thurs Dec 30th 1847. Earley this morning I learned by Calkins that last evening while at the police meeting Mr Long had stolen his oldest step daughter & they had eloped to parts unknown. He was very much excited & wanted me to raise the police & pursue, but where to was the "Hard Question"
He however went to see the President on the subject who on learning that she was anxious to go said let her go which ended the matter now[.] We soon learned that they had fled to Fort Kearney.
E. Gardner the police collector & my-self went to day to the Punka camp to settle the taxes there, and came home & fitted T. Rich & A. Ripley out to go to Belvue to see how matters and things were there in relation to us.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Dec 30, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 30th I spent the day at home Choreing. Br Alger brought me a load of corn to day. It was A damp wet day. Br Wild spent the evening with me.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Dec 29, 1847

[Minutes, Quorum of Twelve] Dec[embe]r. 29. 1847. 1 P.M. Meeting of the Council of The First Presidency, the Twelve, Hi Council, & others in [the]
Council House, Winter Quarters.
Present. B[righam]. Young, [Heber C.] Kimball, [Willard] Richards, [Orson] Pratt, [Wilford]
Woodruff, [George A.] Smith, Letter from Mr. Corby, Missouri, about merchandize-read to Council-Nieswangor & others-St. Jo[seph]. read.
O Pratt-I motion that a letter be written to Mr. Corby giving him encouragement to come & bring all kinds of Articles with him, that they think will be needed.-
B. Young-There is a little matter of bro Pratt & bro Bickford-I understand Vancott & P[arley]. Pratt left orders on Bickford-
Bickford[:] I have the bill at home-
R[obert]. Campbell showed the mistake of 141.66 by the Committee-
B. Young-[B]ro Bickford has been back to Nauvoo-[H]e let Parley have money as far as in his power-Parley wants to wipe him up-[I]f bro Anson had [$]1,000 to day-it wo[ul]d. be a mistake if he co[ul]d. get a fit out next May-he is so very unsuspecting-[I]f Orson will stick to him, he can go slick-[I]f Bickford can keep the team & go over mountains & take Anson over, it will be best.
O. P.[:] I have not inquired into this mistake-I wish Anson to be pushed over the mountains next Spring, & not let it be spent-Anson needs one yoke of oxen, or one Waggon-I can t say which-
Harris[:] I wo[ul]d. be willing to let the mistake rest as it is-[W]hy not put bro Orson as a Guardian over Anson[?]-
B. Young-I will do what I can to favor you (Bickford)-[G]o home in peace-
H. C. K. & B. Y.[: B]ro Bickford is a good man-I love to see such men-
Father Cutler handed in a report of his Mission to the Delawares, & Oneida Indians, & read by [Thomas] Bullock.
Fat[her]. Cutler-Mr. King wants us to go to N.Y. to the Oneidas-[T]hey want to gat[her]. the 14 tribes gathered-[H]e can take us hand & heart-[He] bel[iev]es our doctrine so far as he knows it-[T]hey have covenanted to carry this thing into effect-[B]ro Dana & bro Averitt will come here-[T]he Delawares & Indians are mixed tog[ethe]r.-Averitt will bec[ome] the chief of the Nation-Dana has preached to him & he bel[iev]es it-[I]f this plan does not succeed-they want a man to stand by the side of Dana-[T]hey wo[ul]d. put their desires upon paper-& will do what they are told-
B. Y.[:] My council is they stick to their lands, they join Jackson Co[unty].
Cutler-[T]he last plan is, to hire their own mill built-& come to us-& we to send Men-
[T]hey said we need not be concerned ab[ou]t. getting our living-[T]hey want a Miller, who will not treat them as the present miller does-[T]he Missionaries make them pay the highest price for clothing-5 y[ea]rs more they have the interest of 60,000. Mr. Averitt wants a mill built for himself. & who will hire them to plow & plant as much as we want[?]-Averitt has an understanding & as soon as the Oneidas come, there will be two Strong holds.
B. Y.[:] We will just take, all we can get-
Cutler [:] Mr. Averett says we ma[y] have just as much land as we need-& if they can once get a written permit from the Agent, they ask no odds-[T]hey say "they shant mob you"-[T]he Delawares are good Farmers-[T]he Kickapoos are three miles from the Fort.
B. Y.[:] Major Miller has written to [the] Gov[ernmen]t. recommending to b[u]y our mill, [and] remove it to Papion-also [to] buy our Improvements-for a Military post-
Cutler-[I]f there is 1500 men in Ft. Leavenworth-a man with 600 men co[ul]d. kill them all off in about 6 hours.
B. Y.[:] Fat[her]. Cutler-you have got your hand in, & you will have to play the game now-
Cutler-The Indians know all about the adjournment at Far West-& understand all about our matters-[T]he Pawnees are at Peace with all the Tribes now-[T]he Comanches are at Peace with these Indians-Mr. Averett says there is not any Language except African but they can fetch us an Interpreter-they can Interpret every other-
G. A. Smith[:] "I move that the report be received, for its first rate"-H. C. K. sec[onde]d.-
Carried.
B. Young[:] It is my feeling that bro Cutler continue to keep his eye on this matter & general the business-Turley[:] I second it-
Cutler[:] We can get a good foothold there, bef[ore] next June-[W]e have had some Chero[kees]-
B. Y.[:] It is against [the] law for a woman to take an Indian husband-[T]hat curse was taken off the Lamanites when the B[ook] of Mormon came forth-Joseph committed to me the keys to open the Gospel to every Lamanite nation-
H C K[:] I was present-
O. P.[:] There is a rev[elatio]n. in D[octrine]. & C[ovenants]. that permits a man to take an Indian woman-
B. Y.[:] Where a man gets a dau[ghte]r out of a family, he is entitled to the whole family.
H. C. K.[: I]f you take a white apple [and] graft & plant it in a red apple tree it will bring forth a White Apple.
B. Y.[:] The governing principle is in the husband-& by prayer they will bring forth white children-
Cutler-Bishop Brown has preached to 2 or 3 families, they believe it-[and] they want baptism-
B. Y.-Yes, take them & baptize them. Baptize all Creation-
[At] " past 2 PM Adjourned.

[source: Minutes, Quorum of Twelve]

Mormon History, Dec 29, 1847

[Hosea Stout Diary] Wed Dec 29th 1847. Very warm thawy day. The Church waggon which was executed by Gardner to satisfy the judgement against Scott was sold to day to Prest B. Young and the parties to whom the money was coming made a present of the same to the Prest immediately on the receipt thereof who blessed them & took it and appropriated it to the poor.
Went to Council. Heard Father Cutlers report of his mission which was as good or better than we could expect[.] A great prospect of much good resulting from the works there. Had a police meeting in the evening at W. E. Cox shop, Police agreed to divide the night in three tours of duty. The case of Baalams crown argued V. S. J. Bills.

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Dec 29, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 29th I Attended A Council with the Presidency & High council And herd the report of Br Cutler who had been on a mission to the South. His report was interesting. It showed the Lord was opening doors for the further progress of the work in the earth esspecially among the Lamanites. May the Lord Hasten the work. The Brethren put up my chimney to day which had fallen down.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Dec 28, 1847

[Hosea Stout Diary] Tues Dec 28th 1847. Heard from conference. The First Presidency are unanimously appointed to wit B. Young. H. C. Kimball and W. Richards.
The Best of feeling prevailed and the Spirit rested down on the Congregation to an uncommon degree.
I was yet unwell but better than yesterday.
Went to a trial, before Bp Isaac Clark between C. Chapman & one Robinson. I believe the Prest & others came home to day from the conference.

Mormon History, Dec 28, 1847

Erastus Snow: Left Winter Quarters 28 December 1847.

[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]

Mormon History, Dec 28, 1847

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 28th In Company with the Twelve I crossed the river on the Ice & returned to winter quarters. I was nearly sick, when I reached home & had been was nearly sick, when I reached home & had been nearly all the time at conference. 12 m.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

Mormon History, Dec 27, 1847 - 11 March 1854

[1st Presidency Changes] Brigham Young Heber C. Kimball Willard Richards First Presidency reorganized after deaths of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith

[source: Wikipedia, First Presidency (LDS Church), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_(LDS_Church)#Chronology_of_the_First_Presidency]

Mormon History, Dec 27, 1847

Willard Richards: Sustained as counselor to Brigham Young in First Presidency 27 December 1847.

[source: 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]

Mormon History, Dec 27, 1847

[Hosea Stout Diary] Mond Dec 27th 1847. Sent off those to the Ball at the Tabernacle whom Prest Young & others had sent for but was not well so I staid at home.
Mr Tull one of the Kearney officers was here today to engage more Ladies to go to another Ball at the Point on New Years

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

Mormon History, Dec 27, 1847

Heber Chase Kimball: Sustained as member of First Presidency 27 December 1847.

[source: 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]

Mormon History, Dec 27, 1847

Brigham Young reorganizes the First Presidency, with himself as president, Heber C. Kimball as first counselor, and Willard Richards as second counselor. This is done in the Kanesville Tabernacle in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The tabernacle is constructed in just two weeks and housed over 1,000 people for the ceremony.

[source: Wikipedia, 19th Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)]

Mormon History, Dec 27, 1847

Orson Hyde: Sustained president of Quorum of Twelve 27 Dec. 1847

[source: 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]

Mormon History, Dec 27, 1847

John Smith: Sustained as Patriarch to the Church by First Presidency 6 Dec. and conference 27 Dec. 1847

[source: 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]