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Appendix: Letter to Nancy Rigdon, circa Mid-April 1842, as Published in Bennett, History of the Saints

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Nauvoo

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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, Hancock Co., IL], to [
Nancy Rigdon

8 Dec. 1822–1 Nov. 1887. Born in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Sidney Rigdon and Phebe Brooks. Moved to Bainbridge, Geauga Co., Ohio, 1826. Moved to Mentor, Geauga Co., 1827. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, likely ca. Nov. 1830, in Ohio...

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Nauvoo

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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, Hancock Co., IL, ca. mid-Apr. 1842]. Version published [ca. early Nov. 1842] in John C. Bennett, History of the Saints; or, an Exposé of Joe Smith and Mormonism, Boston: Leland and Whiting, 243–245.

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See Historical Introduction to Appendix: Letter to Nancy Rigdon, ca. Mid-Apr. 1842.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Appendix: Letter to Nancy Rigdon, circa Mid-April 1842

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not your own, or which I have not given you, you shall be rewarded according to your deeds; but no good thing will I withhold from them who walk uprightly before me, and do my will in all things; who will listen to my voice and to the voice of MY SERVANT whom I have sent; for I delight in those who seek diligently to know my precepts, and abide by the laws of my kingdom; for all things shall be made known unto them in mine own due time, and in the end they shall have joy.” [p. 245]
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