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Letter, Caleb Atwater to Nauvoo Postmaster, 16 November 1842

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, Letter, Circleville, Pickaway Co., OH, to Postmaster [
Sidney Rigdon

19 Feb. 1793–14 July 1876. Tanner, farmer, minister. Born at St. Clair, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Son of William Rigdon and Nancy Gallaher. Joined United Baptists, ca. 1818. Preached at Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and vicinity, 1819–1821. Married Phebe...

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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, 16 Nov. 1842; handwriting presumably of
Caleb Atwater

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; docket in handwriting of
William Clayton

17 July 1814–4 Dec. 1879. Bookkeeper, clerk. Born at Charnock Moss, Penwortham, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. Married Ruth Moon, 9 Oct. 1836, at Penwortham. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Heber...

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; three pages; private possession.

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countries, they moved in a north eastern direction to Western
New York

Located in northeast region of U.S. Area settled by Dutch traders, 1620s; later governed by Britain, 1664–1776. Admitted to U.S. as state, 1788. Population in 1810 about 1,000,000; in 1820 about 1,400,000; in 1830 about 1,900,000; and in 1840 about 2,400,...

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. Perhaps, your prophet has found the words which they left buried in the earth, which inform us of all the migrations of that ancient people— the names of the plans they occupied as they moved onward— their military stations, their temples, their roads &c. The first cost of three thousand copies, would be $4000 or a dollar and twenty five cents a copy, to which must be added my personal expenses, boarding, travelling expenses, &c. say, in all, about $1.50 a copy for 3000 copies. If stereotyped, that expense must be added, and then, you could print as many editions as should be called for in Europe and
America

North American constitutional republic. Constitution ratified, 17 Sept. 1787. Population in 1805 about 6,000,000; in 1830 about 13,000,000; and in 1844 about 20,000,000. Louisiana Purchase, 1803, doubled size of U.S. Consisted of seventeen states at time ...

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. My work might stand by itself and the explanation of it, if the prophet should be able to explain from his old records, all the migrations of that wonderful people, might be bound with my work or separately, as he should choose.
I have no money to spare, otherwise I would get out a new and improved edition myself. I should need, about 300 British sovereigns to begin with, and the remainder might be paid as the work progressed. I would get it out, in six months after I began and have it well executed and a beautiful book, full of copper plates, worth 3 or 4 dollars a copy. [p. [2]]
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