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Discourse, 19 February 1843

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JS, Discourse, [
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], 19 Feb. 1843. Featured version copied [ca. 19 Feb. 1843] in “Minutes of the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of Nauvoo Hancock County Illinois from the 20th of May 1842 to the 19th February 1843,” p. 33; handwriting of
Hosea Stout

18 Sept. 1810–2 Mar. 1889. Farmer, teacher, carpenter, sawmill operator, lawyer. Born near Pleasant Hill, Mercer Co., Kentucky. Son of Joseph Stout and Anna Smith. Moved to Union Township, Clinton Co., Ohio, 1819; to Wilmington, Clinton Co., fall 1824; to...

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; Nauvoo High Council Minutes, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Minutes and Discourse, 19 Feb. 1843.

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Minutes and Discourse, 19 Feb. 1843.

Page 33

President Joseph Smith spoke at length on the subject clearly showing the situation of the affair, and what was the true nature of the titles to the
islands

Two tree-covered islands located in Mississippi River between Nauvoo, Illinois, and Montrose, Iowa Territory. Important source of wood for Saints. JS hid on islands, Aug. 1842, while Missouri authorities sought to extradite him. Emma Smith, accompanied by...

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. That they did not belong to the
“Half Breed tract”

Tract consisted of 119,000 acres located in southeastern Iowa between Des Moines and Mississippi rivers. In 1824, U.S. Congress set aside tract for offspring of American Indian mothers and white fathers. Subsequent act passed, 1834, relinquishing Congress...

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and also that the Court of
Chancery

The court of chancery, also known as equity, emerged in fourteenth-century England as an alternative to the common law courts, which over preceding centuries had developed complicated and strict rules of procedure, governed by precedent. Partial compliance...

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had no right to sell them. That they were refused lands which the goverment did not see fit to do any thing with consequently were free plunder or belonged to the actual setler &c although, as they were to be sold, it was best that th[e]
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brethren buy them to avoid any difficulty with those ou[t]
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of the
Church

The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...

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, who might buy them &c [p. 33]
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Discourse, 19 February 1843
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