[Quorum of Twelve] [April 19, 1840 [1843]. A meeting of the twelve at Joseph's Office.]
... write to Oliver Cowdery ask him if he has eat [sic] husks long enough [4:30 o'clock Joseph went home] if he is not ready to return & be clothed in robes of [?]2 [?] Orson Hyde had mind of him the Twelve wrote a letter to Oliver Cowdery. (1)
-- Apr 20, 1843
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 20 & 21 I spent in the Printing Office. (2)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Thursday, April 20th 1843 Out on the prairie with [Willam] Clayton. P.M. Settled with Manhard. Listened to the proof of the Elders conference. (3)
-- Apr 21, 1843
[Joseph Smith Diary] Friday, April 21st Officer drill. (3)
-- Apr 22, 1843
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 22 29d I rode to Augusta on skunk River with B Young Joseph Young H C. Kimball, & G A Smith & Peter Haws to hold a conferance. (2)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Saturday, April 22nd The cohorts of the Legion were in exercise this day. L[i]eut[enant] Gen[eral] J[oseph] Smith's staff came out by his invitation and spent the day in riding, exercising, or organizing and in Council or court martial to ascertain to what staff the Robert D. Foster Surgeon Gen[eral], Hugh McFall Adjutant Gen[eral], Daniel H. Wells Commissary Gen[eral] and Leonard Soby Quarter Master General belonged. (3)
-- Apr 23, 1843
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 23d 30 Sunday We held a conferance at Augusta. Had a good time. We preached the Nauvoo House & many Promised to assist in building it. We found about two hundred Saints in this place & had started a flourishing village three saw mills & two flouring mills & one of the best water privileges I ever met with. (2)
Kinderhook plates (6 bell shaped brass plates) found in Kinderhook, IL. (4)
Robert Wiley "finds" six metal, bell-shaped plates covered with hieroglyphs while digging in a mound near Kinderhook, Illinois. The plates are found with a skeleton eleven feet below the top of the mound. There are "two mormon elders" among the dozen people witnessing the excavation. The plates are brought to Joseph Smith who says "they contain the history of the person with whom they were found and he was a descendant of Ham through the loins of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and that he received his kingdom from the ruler of heaven and earth." In 1855 and 1879 associates of Wiley claim that the plates were a hoax gotten up by Wiley and friends to fool Smith. There is debate about the validity of the "hoax" stories until 1981 when the plates are subjected to testing which conclusively verifies their 19th-century origin and details given by the hoaxers in their manufacture. (5)
[Joseph Smith] Six brass plates are found near Kinderhook, Pike County, Ill., by a Robert Wiley and others. They are given to Joseph to see if he can translate them. He says, "I have translated a portion of them, and find they contain the history of the person with whom they were found. He was a descendant of Ham, through the loins of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and that he received his kingdom from the Ruler of heaven and earth." Joseph never publishes a record of the plates, but the facsimile of the plates themselves is published in the Times and Seasons in April 1843. (History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (7 volumes) 5:372-79. (6)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Sunday, April 23rd 1843 9 to 10 A.M. At home with Elder Hyde. Heard read Truthiana, No. 6 /objected to its being printed. It was too strong meat/ and /heard read/ minutes of special conference which were not explicit enough and said he would dictate them over again.
11 o'clock meeting at temple stand. [Present:] B[righam] Young, Parley and O[rson] Pratt, O[rson] Hyde, Geo[rge] A. Smith, W[illard] Richards. O[rson] Hyde prayed. B[righam] Young preached 24 past 11. Text [was] Salvation. Twelve [Apostles] commenced their mission to build the Nauvoo House /for the/ salvation of Church. It was necessary this public buildings should be erected &c.
P.M. P[arley] P. Pratt addressed the assembly concerning the city as it was 3 years ago and as it is, his disappointment at finding greater {page 175 } improvements than he anticipated, more brick houses &c. Elder Haws spoke concerning the pine country and called for 25 hands to go up thither &c., and also the N[auvoo] House. Elder Hyde followed and Elder Brigham Young instructed the laborers on the N[auvoo] House to commence next morning. [that they should] Beg food of their neighbors to commence if necessary and requested families to board hands till means could be procured. (3)
-- Apr 24, 1843
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 24th We returned home to Nauvoo. (2)
Footnotes:
1 - Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Minutes of Meetings and Other Documents--Excerpts, 1835-1896
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993
3 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1843
4 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"
5 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
6 - Conklin, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
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