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Resolution, 18 December 1841–A, as Published in Times and Seasons

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Nauvoo City Council, Resolution,
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, 18 Dec. 1841. Version published in “New York Weekly Herald—James Gordon Bennett,” Times and Seasons, 1 Jan. 1842, 3:653.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, February–December 1841 Resolution, 18 December 1841–A Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845
Resolution, 18 December 1841–A, as Published in Times and Seasons
History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 Addenda “History of Joseph Smith”

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Resolved by the City Council of the City of
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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, That the high-minded and honorable Editor of the New York Weekly Herald—
James Gordon Bennett

1 Sept. 1795–1 June 1872. Journalist, newspaper owner. Born at Newmill, Keith, Banffshire, Scotland. Catholic. Moved to Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, ca. 1815; to Halifax, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, 1819; to Boston; to New York, ca. 1822; to Charleston...

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, Esq
., is deserving of the lasting gratitude of this community for his very liberal and unprejudiced course towards us as a people in giving us a fair hearing in his paper—thus enabling us to reach the ears of a portion of the community who, otherwise, would ever have remained ignorant of our principles and practices. [p. 653]
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