Minutes, 30 April 1833
Minutes, 30 April 1833
Source Note
Source Note
Minutes, , Geauga Co., OH, 30 Apr. 1833. Featured version copied [between 4 June and ca. 6 June 1833] in Minute Book 1, pp. 19–20; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Minute Book 1.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
These minutes of a midweek meeting of demonstrate the variety of concerns that occupied the attention of JS and other leaders of the . In the meeting, participants made financial and administrative decisions while also determining how to follow directions given in a JS revelation. At the meeting, the high priests appointed to raise funds, designated to lead the church branch in , Ohio, and discussed ’s immigration to . Jaques had recently arrived in , Ohio, with a large financial donation for the church, and a revelation dated 8 March 1833 directed that she “should receive money to bear her expences and go up unto the Land of and the residue of her money I [the Lord] will unto myself and reward her in mine own due time.” This , presided over by JS, decided that she would travel with , who was moving to Missouri to work as a typographer for The Evening and the Morning Star in .
Footnotes
Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833 [D&C 90:28].
“Obituary,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Dec. 1833, 117.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
30 of April 1833
A of convened in the school room. the meeting commen[c]ed with prayer by Bro Joseph the councel being organized in due form Bro Joseph said that it was necessary that a subscription should be opened to procure money to pay for the use of the house that meetings were held in the past season. accordingly the conference appointed bro to circulate a subscription paper for that purpose
next thing in question was the exped[i]ency of going to and to take the charge of that of of the , it was decided that [p. 19]
Source Note
Source Note
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Document Information
Document Information
Footnotes
Footnotes
The schoolroom was located in Newel K. Whitney’s store.
The house referred to here is likely the schoolhouse on “the flats,” which was often used for church meetings in Kirtland.
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