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Preamble to Ordinance, between 8 and 10 June 1844

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Nauvoo City Council, Preamble to Ordinance,
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, between 8 and 10 June 1844; handwriting of
William W. Phelps

17 Feb. 1792–7 Mar. 1872. Writer, teacher, printer, newspaper editor, publisher, postmaster, lawyer. Born at Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey. Son of Enon Phelps and Mehitabel Goldsmith. Moved to Homer, Cortland Co., New York, 1800. Married Sally Waterman,...

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; notation in unidentified handwriting; one page; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Draft of Ordinance, 8 June 1844
Preamble to Ordinance, between 8 and 10 June 1844
Ordinance, 10 June 1844 Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845 Ordinance, 10 June 1844, as Published in Nauvoo Neighbor History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844] “History of Joseph Smith”

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An ordinance concerning libels and for others purposes.
Whereas the Saints in all ages of the world have suffered persecutions and death; by wicked and corrupt men under the garb <​of​> a most holy appearance of religion; And whereas the
church of Jesus Christ of latter day Saints

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from the moment that its first “broke Sprung out of the earth” till now, has has been persecuted with death, destruction and extermination; and whereas men, to fulfil the scriptures, that a “man’s enemies are they of his own house hold,” have turned traitors in the church and combined and leagued w[i]th <​the​> most Corrupt scoundrels and villians that disgraced the earth unhung; for the heaven daring and damnable purpose of revenge on account of disappointed [p. 1]
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Preamble to Ordinance, between 8 and 10 June 1844
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