Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
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Source Note
See source note under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
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Historical Introduction
See historical introduction under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.

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....
More InfoThe surviving copies of this letter bear postmarks from St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, New York City, and Louisville, Kentucky.a Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo complained about the mail as early as 1842, when JS wrote, “It is with great difficulty that we can get our letters to or from our friends. Our letters are broken open and robbed of their contents— Our papers that we send to our subscribers, are embezzled, and burned or wasted. We get no money from our subscribers, and very little information from abroad; and what little we do get, we get by private means.” In fall 1845 Willard Richards complained “of the difficulties we labor under as a people, with regard to the United States Mail.”b (aSee, for example, the copies of this letter dated between 24 April and 1 May, signed by
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
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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