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| September 26, 1830 |
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| 63 members |
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No. of the several members uniting to this Church since
the last Conference, thirty-five, making in whole now belonging to this
Church sixty-two. |
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Minutes of September 26, 1830 |
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| [November] 1830 |
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| 130 converts |
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… during the seven weeks
they [Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt, and their companions] tarried they
succeeded in building up a church of one hundred and thirty members. |
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¶ Lyman
Wight journal |
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100 in Geauga and [Cuyahoga]
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There are rising of 100 in this and an adjoining county
who have embraced the ideas and assertions of Joseph Smith, jr., many of
them respectable for intelligence and piety. |
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"The Book of Mormon," PT,
Nov. 30, 1830. Source |
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| Lamanite missionaries baptize 130 |
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… we went to the States of Ohio. There we declared
the fulness of the gospel and had much success; we baptized 130 people. |
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Peter Whitmer Jr. report, Journal History,
Jan. 29, 1831. |
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| 127 converts |
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In two or three weeks from our arrival in the neighborhood
with the news, we had baptized one hundred and twenty-seven souls, and
this number soon increased to one thousand. |
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Parley P. Pratt, 52. |
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| Winter 1830–1831 |
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100 in Kirtland
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The winter following I went with several others to Kirtland,
Ohio. They were establishing a Mormon church in that thriving little village.
The members now numbered about one hundred persons, the greater part of
whom were the brightest and best of the community, [59] merchants, lawyers
and doctors. |
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Life among the Mormons, 58–59. |
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| January 1831 |
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Jan. 9, 1831
300 |
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Mormonism. — An extract of a letter from a person converted to Mormonism, but who is said to have been formerly a respectable citizen of Boston, is published in one of the papers of that city. It is dated Canandaigua, Jan. 9th, 1831, and says — |
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Working Man's
Advocate, Dec. 3, 1831 Source A December 1831 publication date is unusually late. |
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"We live in this place, and have ever since the 8th of October. My mind and time have mostly been taken up in the labor of the new covenant, …The book [of Mormon] causes great excitement in these parts, and many lie and foam out their shame, and some believe and become meek and lowly in this religion. |
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There are about one hundred souls who have humbled themselves and come forth with broken hearts and contrite spirits, and desired baptism at the hand of Joseph Smith, or some other elder,— … Four of these only have gone to the Samanites [Lamanites] (or Indians) to preach the gospel unto them. They passed through Ohio, and preached, and three hundred have come forth. |
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Many, on coming, brought all their possessions and gave to the church. One of the first was an old miser, who set the example by throwing in all his property—eight hundred acres of land under good cultivation. Thus we see, that when the people become right this will follow, as in the Apostles' days. |
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| 400 |
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There are about four hundred souls, and yet no one has aught he calls his own. This we have not preached; but it is the natural consequence of embracing the Apostolic doctrine which we have done; for He has visited his people, by the ministration of angels, and by raising up a new seer and revelator, that He may communicate unto us such things as are necessary for our preservation and instruction. |
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| 300 |
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After Joseph and Sidney returned from Colesville to Fayette.
The Lord manifested himself to Joseph the Revelator and gave commandment
for me to go to the Ohio, and carry the commandments and revelations, with
me, to comfort and strengthen my brethren in that land. The disciples had
increased in number about three hundred. |
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J. Whitmer, 13. Is the "increase" of
"about three hundred" in Ohio alone, or in all locations combined? |
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| February 1831 |
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200 in Geauga county
200 in
Cuyahoga |
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It is asserted by them that their number in
this vicinity is four hundred. In a conversation a few days since with
a gentleman of Kirtland, well informed, and every way concerned to give
us the truth, we are assured that their numbers in the families in that
town were two hundred souls. We doubt not then, that their whole number
in this county and Cayahoga [Cuyahoga] are at least four hundred. |
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"The Golden Bible, or Book
of Mormon," Geauga Gazette, Feb. 1, 1831. Source
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By February 1831, converts were living in
Kirtland, Chardon, Painesville,
and Mentor (Geauga county);
Chagrin, Mayfield, Orange, Strongsville,
and Warrensville (Cuyahoga county);
Hiram, Mantua, and Nelson (Portage county);
Rome (Ashtabula
county); New Portage and Norton (Medina county) |
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Blue: verified |
| February 1831 |
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| 400 |
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The new church at Kirtland, Ohio, under the auspices of
the "Book of Mormon," is said to contain 400 members. |
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"Summary," Ohio Star,
Feb. 24, 1831. Source |
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| March 1831 |
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| 1,000+ |
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[Upon returning from the mission to the Lamanites:]
I found the churches in Ohio had increased to more than a thousand members,
and those in New York to several hundred. |
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Parley P. Pratt, 69. |
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| May 1831 |
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| 100+ in Portage townships |
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Strange as it may appear, it is an unquestionable fact,
that this singular sect have, within three or four weeks, made many proselytes
in this county [Portage]. The number of believers in the faith, in three
or four of the Northern Townships, is said to exceed one hundred—among
whom are many intelligent and respectable individuals. The prospects of
obtaining still greater numbers in this county, is daily increasing. |
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Western Courier, May
26, 1831. Source |
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Hiram, Nelson, Mantua,
and Shalersville are townships
north of Ravenna, where the Western
Courier is published. John Whitmer and
Lyman Wight organized a church in Nelson in [February–March]
1831. Ezra Booth, a Methodist minister from
Mantua, joined the church in early 1831. Campbellite minister Rev. Symonds
Ryder grants him permission to speak to
his congregation in Hiram, but Symonds will not be baptized until shortly
before the June [3–6], 1831 conference. |
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| June 1831 |
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| 50 families |
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About the 1st of June, the prophet assembled all his followers, for the purpose of a great meeting, … Previous to this time, it should be remarked, nearly all the Mormonites [127] had arrived from the State of New York, under a revelation, of course, to take possession of the "promised land." There were, in all, about fifty families. |
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Mormonism unvailed, 126–127. Source
Fifty familes from New York? at the June conference? in the Kirtland area? |
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| July 1831 |
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| 1,000 |
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The members of this sect are now said to amount
to 1,000 souls! |
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"Mormonism," Niles Weekly
Register (Baltimore), July 16, 1831.
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1830 Census: Kirtland, et. al.
Mormon History Gazetteer for Ohio (1830–1839)
Kirtland
1830–1831
Ohio
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