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-- 1821
[Deseret] Mexico wins independence from Spain and claims Utah. (1)
Sidney Rigdon & Adamson Bentley go to Bethany, MO. and meet Alexander Campbell. (2)
to 1830 Whitmers were Methodists, Reformers, Presbyterians, Menonites, and Baptists [per Rev. Dierich Willers] (2)
[West] Mexico won independence from Spain. (3)
[Wilford Woodruff] Begins work as a miller. (4)
-- c. 1821
[Oliver Cowdery] Lyman Cowdery (then about 19?) moved west to NY at about this time. He may have initially lived with his brother Warren in Cattaraugus Co., but by 1825 he was living in Ontario (later Wayne) Co. (5)
-- 1821
[Sydney Rigdon] Alexander Campbell first met Walter Scott (suspect date) (6)
[Sydney Rigdon] Alexander Campbell's Debate with Walker published; read enthusiastically by Adamson Bentley and Sidney Rigdon (6)
[Sydney Rigdon] Rev. John Davis left the First Baptist Church in Pittsburgh (6)
-- 1821 April
[Joseph Smith] Joseph Sr., Alvin, and Hyrum Smith are residing at the south end of Stafford Road in Palmyra. (7)
-- Jun 3, 1821
[Lucy Mack Smith] Martha Jane Knowlton is born at Covington, Boone County, Kentucky. (8)
-- Jun 21, 1821
[U.S. Religious History] The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church was founded in New York City. (9)
-- July 1821
[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Sr. and Alvin contract for their land in Manchester. (8)
-- 1821 Jul
[Sydney Rigdon] While traveling through Virginia, Brothers Bentley and Rigdon visited Alexander Campbell at Buffaloe (the future Bethany, West Virginia) and after a day and a night's stay both men were won over to his reform cause. (6)
Footnotes:
1 - http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html
2 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
3 - http://www.mormonmiscellaneous.com/radioprogramblog/id8.html
4 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
5 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
6 - http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm
7 - Inventing Mormonism:Tradition and the Historical Record, H. Michael Marquardt Wesley P. Walters. A Chronology of Mormon Origins, p.xxvi
8 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
9 - http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blrel_amrel_chron.htm
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