Mormon History, about Monday, Nov 24, 1828

/Mormon History Chronology/
-- about Monday, Nov 24, 1828
Manchester, L Cowdery contracts to teach school for 16 weeks. (1)

-- about Tuesday, Nov 25, 1828
Manchester, Oliver Cowdery to replace L Cowdery as teacher. (1)

-- Winter 1828
and 1829 Oliver Cowdery (son and brother of Royal Arch Mason Initiates) works as a teacher in Manchester, NY with Joseph Smith Sr. as one of his students. Cowdery stays with the Smiths (customary for teachers to board with a student's family) and learns of the "golden bible" story. (2)

-- about Monday, Dec 01, 1828
Manchester, O Cowdery begins 16 weeks of teaching school. (1)

-- Monday, Dec 22, 1828
Manchester, O Cowdery, no school Christmas week. (1)

-- 1828 Winter
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon brings Baptist "teachers" Darwin Atwater and Zeb Rudolph from northern Portage Co. to Mentor, to attend his instructional classes -- the two students notice that Rigdon is frequently absent from that place (parts of Jan-Mar.) (3)

-- 1829
Martin Harris goes to Rochester to find a printer. (2)

Sidney Rigdon converts Parley P. Pratt to Reformed Baptist (Rigdon acknowledges that he doesn't have the proper religious authority) [per Parley P. Pratt]. (2)

[Heber C. Kimball] Meets Brigham Young in Mendon. (4)

[U.S. Religious History] Emancipation of Roman Catholics (1829) (5)

[Young, Brigham] Moved to Mendon, New York, 1829. (6)

-- 1829-1838
John Whitmer -- primary scribal author for this period. Writings used in assembling The History of the Church (often cited as HC) (originally entitled History of Joseph Smith; first published under the title History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; nicknamed Documentary History of the Church or DHC) (7)

Oliver Cowdery -- primary scribal author for this period. Writings used in assembling The History of the Church (often cited as HC) (originally entitled History of Joseph Smith; first published under the title History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; nicknamed Documentary History of the Church or DHC) (7)

-- 1829-1848
[Deseret] The Old Spanish Trail which enters Utah about fifteen miles east of Monticello, and continues roughly northwesterly to about the town of Green River, crosses the Colorado River just northwest of Moab and eventually crosses desert and wash region until it reaches the Green River. (8)

Footnotes:
1 - http://www.eldenwatson.net/BoM.htm
2 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
3 - http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm
4 - On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Stanely B. Kimball editor. Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1987. Chronology
5 - Milton Backman, Regional Studies, British Isles, Birth of Mormonism, p.27. Preliminaries to the Restoration: Chronology
6 - Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelation of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
7 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Church
8 - http://historytogo.utah.gov/timeline/trapperstradersandexplorers.html

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