Minutes, 30 April 1833
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Source Note
Minutes, , Geauga Co., OH, 30 Apr. 1833. Featured version copied [between 4 June and ca. 6 June 1833] in Minute Book 1, pp. 19–20; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Minute Book 1.
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Historical Introduction
These minutes of a midweek meeting of demonstrate the variety of concerns that occupied the attention of JS and other leaders of the . In the meeting, participants made financial and administrative decisions while also determining how to follow directions given in a JS revelation. At the meeting, the high priests appointed to raise funds, designated to lead the church branch in , Ohio, and discussed ’s immigration to . Jaques had recently arrived in , Ohio, with a large financial donation for the church, and a revelation dated 8 March 1833 directed that she “should receive money to bear her expences and go up unto the Land of and the residue of her money I [the Lord] will unto myself and reward her in mine own due time.” This , presided over by JS, decided that she would travel with , who was moving to Missouri to work as a typographer for The Evening and the Morning Star in .
Footnotes
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1
Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833 [D&C 90:28].
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2
“Obituary,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Dec. 1833, 117.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
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30 of April 1833
A of convened in the school room. the meeting commenced with prayer by Bro Joseph the councel being organized in due form Bro Joseph said that it was necessary that a subscription should be opened to procure money to pay for the use of the house that meetings were held in the past season. accordingly the conference appointed bro to circulate a subscription paper for that purpose
next thing in question was the expediency of going to to take the charge of that of of the , it was decided that [p. 19]
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