[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]
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