Footnotes
For more information about these meetings and the Seventy in general, see Historical Introduction to Minutes and Blessings, 28 Feb.–1 Mar. 1835.
Although not all blessings explicitly state that an individual was ordained a seventy, it appears that the only men not made seventies at this time were John Murdock, Solomon Denton, Benjamin Winchester, Hyrum Smith, and Frederick G. Williams.
Bradley, Zion’s Camp 1834, 269–275; Account with the Church of Christ, ca. 11–29 Aug. 1834.
Bradley, James L. Zion’s Camp 1834: Prelude to the Civil War. Logan, UT: By the author, 1990.
For examples, see Hutchings, Journal, 15 Feb. 1835; Burgess, Autobiography, 4; and “Biographies of the Seventies of the Second Quorum,” 22.
Hutchings, Elias. Journal, Dec. 1834–Sept. 1836. CHL. MS 1445.
Burgess, Harrison. Autobiography, ca. 1883. Photocopy. CHL. MS 893. Also available as “Sketch of a Well-Spent Life,” in Labors in the Vineyard, Faith-Promoting Series 12 (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1884), 65–74.
“Biographies of the Seventies of the Second Quorum,” 1845–1855. In Seventies Quorum Records, 1844–1975. CHL. CR 499.
Joseph Young later recounted that, in addition to him, six others were ordained as presidents over the Seventy: Sylvester Smith, Zebedee Coltrin, Hazen Aldrich, Levi Hancock, Leonard Rich, and Lyman Sherman. Only Young’s and Smith’s ordination blessings as recorded here reflect that appointment. (Young, History of the Organization of the Seventies, 1, 4.)
Young, Joseph, Sr. History of the Organization of the Seventies: Names of First and Second Quorums. Items in Relation to the First Presidency of the Seventies. Also, a Brief Glance at Enoch and His City. Embellished with a Likeness of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and a View of the Kirtland Temple. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Steam Printing Establishment, 1878.
See Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 124 [Jacob 1:19]; Revelation, July 1830–A [D&C 24:9]; Revelation, 22–23 Sept. 1832 [D&C 84:33]; and Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 [D&C 88:80].
In a May 1835 conference, Young, together with the other presidents of the Seventy, was told to “hold himself in readiness to go at the call of the Twelve, when the Lord opens the way.” (Minutes and Discourse, 2 May 1835.)
See Deuteronomy 33:16–17.
Hiram Winters (1805–1889) was listed in the 1830 census as living in Ellicott, New York, where he operated a sawmill. He was baptized in June 1833 and moved to Kirtland probably sometime in November 1833. He remembered his ordination blessing occurring “under the hands of the Prophet Joseph Smith.” (1830 U.S. Census, Ellicott, Chautauqua Co., NY, 327; Olsen, Among the Remnant Who Lingered, 12, 15, 19, 26, 86.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Olsen, Beth Radmall. Among the Remnant Who Lingered: The History of Rebecca Burdick and Hiram Winters and Their Families. Orem, UT: Micro Dynamics Electronic Publishing, 1997.
Elias Hutchings (1784–1845) was living in Orange, Ohio, when he was baptized on 17 November 1830. After accompanying the Camp of Israel expedition to Missouri, he was ordained an elder in December 1834. He then returned to Kirtland. Hutchings recalled that he received a blessing “for Gowing up to Zion” on 15 February 1835 under the hands of JS, Joseph Smith Sr., and Sidney Rigdon. This was likely his ordination blessing to the Seventy. (“Biography,” Times and Seasons, 15 Apr. 1845, 6:876; Hutchings, Journal, 15 Dec. 1834 and 15 Feb. 1835.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Hutchings, Elias. Journal, Dec. 1834–Sept. 1836. CHL. MS 1445.
See Revelation, 1 Aug. 1831 [D&C 58:27].