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.
See Revelation, 16 Apr. 1830 [D&C 22]; Vision, 16 Feb. 1832 [D&C 76:69]; and Revelation, 22–23 Sept. 1832 [D&C 84:57].
This appears to be an incident where Brigham Young was exercising the gift of tongues, which the Bible indicated was bestowed on an individual by God’s spirit. Kirtland church members first experienced this gift in 1830 and 1831, but it largely disappeared after JS “identified some of the ecstatic manifestations” of the Saints as excessive and “ungodly” at a June 1831 conference. However, when Brigham Young first met JS in November 1832, Young spoke in tongues, which, according to a later JS history, was the first time JS “had heard this Gift among the brethren.” Singing in tongues, which Young did in this meeting, had occurred previously. At a 27 February 1833 gathering, an individual later identified as David W. Patten sang a song in tongues. When William W. Phelps published the translation of this song in The Evening and the Morning Star, he placed it under the title “Songs of Zion.” (Staker, Hearken, O Ye People, 175; JS History, vol. A-1, addenda, 2nA; Song, 27 Feb. 1833, in Revelation Book 2, pp. 48–49; Mysteries of God, [no date], copy at CHL; “Songs of Zion,” The Evening and the Morning Star, May 1833, [8]; see also Acts 2:4; 1 Corinthians 12:8–10; Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 586 [Moroni 10:15–17]; Revelation, ca. 8 Mar. 1831–A [D&C 46:24–25]; Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 4; and Esplin, “Emergence of Brigham Young,” 92–94; for more information on the gift of tongues among church members, see Vogel and Dunn, “Tongue of Angels,” 1–34.)
Staker, Mark L. Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2009.
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
Murray, Joyce Martin, and Martin Richard Murray. Greene County, Tennessee, Deed Abstracts, 1810–1822. 2 vols. Dallas, TX: J. M. Murphy, 1996.Mysteries of God, As Revealed to Enoch, on the Mount Mehujah, and Sung in Tongues by Elder D. W. Patton, of the “Church of Latter Day Saints,” (Who Fell a Martyr to the Cause of Christ, in the Missouri Persecution,) and Interpreted by Elder S. Rigdon. Broadside, [After 1838]. Copy at CHL.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Esplin, Ronald K. “The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830–1841.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1981. Also available as The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830–1841, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2006).
Vogel, Dan, and Scott C. Dunn. “‘ The Tongue of Angels’: Glossolalia among Mormonism’s Founders.” Journal of Mormon History 19, no. 2 (Fall 1993): 1–34.
A reference to Stratton’s participation in the Camp of Israel.