| Early New York convert; mission to Independence (1831) § and many others; member, first high council §; Danite
leader. |
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January 14, 1801 in Benson,
Rutland, Vermont |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
| Died |
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July 7, 1849 in what is now DeKalb, Illinois. |
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Chuck Ford, a g-g-g-grandson
PWJS
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, rev. ed., compiled and edited by Dean C. Jessee (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002).
, 665, citing Illinois Mortality Schedule, 1850. |
| Father |
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Gideon Carter |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral
File v4.19 |
| Mother |
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Joanna Sims |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral
File v4.19 |
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Shoemaker, cordwainer. |
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PWJS
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, rev. ed., compiled and edited by Dean C. Jessee (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002).
,
665. |
| Conversion |
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1831 living in Chenango, Broome county, New York when he
hears about Mormonism from Hezekiah Peck's brother, John, who
is opposed to it. Jared is converted by reading the Book of Mormon and
praying about it. |
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
in
Early documents
Early Mormon Documents, compiled and edited by Dan Vogel. 4 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002).
4:100–101. |
| Baptism |
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February 20, 1831 baptized by Hyrum Smith. |
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
, 4 //
Early documents
Early Mormon Documents, compiled and edited by Dan Vogel. 4 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002).
4:101. |
| Ohio |
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April–May 1831 travels with "the Church
of Christ" from Ithaca on the south end of Cayuga Lake, up the lake to
the Cayuga and Seneca Canal, which connects to the Erie Canal, arriving
in Buffalo "about
the 15th of April." The
main body from Colesville arrived on May 1, and Lucy Mack Smith's group
of eighty from Waterloo a week later. Prevented from crossing Lake Erie
due to wind and ice, Jared leads a dozen men overland from Colesville to
Dunkirk, where they catch a steamboat to Fairport, Ohio, then travel over
land to Kirtland. |
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about the 15th of April: |
| Priest |
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June 6, 1831 called to be ordained a priest. |
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¶ D&C
52:38 Date questionable. He is not listed in Minutes of
June [4], 1831 |
| 1831–1832
mission |
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September 22, 1831 ordained an elder and "received the
authority of an apostle"
prior to departing on mission with Ebenezer Page (father of John E. Page). |
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
, 35. |
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January 1832 first missionary to Spafford, New York, where John Gould ministers to the Free Will Baptist church. Zera Pulsipher built the meetinghouse. Shadrach and Uriah Roundy are members of the congregation. A Book of Mormon circulates in the fall of 1831 and in January 1832 Jared Carter, the first missionary to visit, baptizes the Goulds, Pulsiphers, Roundys, and others. |
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John Pulsipher
John Pulsipher autobiography (typescript), BYU Special Collections, BX 8670.1 P968.
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Zera Pulsipher autobiography. |
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February 29, 1832 returns to Amherst. |
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| 1832 mission |
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March 12, 1832 called on another mission "into
the eastern countries." |
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D&C 79 |
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April 25, 1832 leaves for the East with Calvin Stoddard. They part in New York and Jared continues to Vermont with his brother Gideon and Sylvester Smith. |
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October 19, 1832 returns to Kirtland, then Amherst. |
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December 1, 1832 leaves on mission to Detroit with Moses Daley. |
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| Vermont |
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December 24, 1832 Jared and Simeon have
baptized a hundred in Vermont. |
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EMS
The Evening and the Morning Star
1, no. 9 (Feb. 1833) |
| Michigan |
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February 16, 1833 Samuel Bent writes from Pontiac, Michigan
that Jared has been there about five weeks and baptized 22, including himself,
wife, and children. He is now proselyting with Jared. |
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EMS
The Evening and the Morning Star
1, no. 11 (Apr. 1833) |
| [April] 1833 |
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Organizes three small churches in Michigan. |
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Gideon H. Carter letter, May
1832,
EMS
The Evening and the Morning Star
2, no. 14 (July 1833): 108. |
| Kirtland |
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April 13, 1833 back in Kirtland, hands Joseph a
letter from his brother, which Joseph answers. |
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HC
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902-1912, 1932).
1:338. |
| Healing |
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[May or June 1833:] not long how after Brother John arrived My daughter Sophronia Stoddard was taken <very> sick and her symptoms soon became so alarming that her husband being alarmed about her sent for a physician who after attending upon her sometime pronounced her beyond the reach of Medicine and discontinued his visits because he said that he could be of no service to her—in a short time she became so weak that we could not turn her in bed for several days She did not speak and many thought that she was dying about this time Jared Carter returned from a preaching Mission and he was a man of great faith and I thought that if I could get him to administer to her with the my husband & sons that by their united faith she might be healed <I spoke> acc <mentioned this> to Mr. Smith and he called Brother Carter and his sons together and the[y] laid hands on her and in ½ an hour she spoke to me and said Mother I shall get well but not suddenly but the Lord will heal me gradually, and it was so |
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Lucy
Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Smith's Family Memoir, edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson (Salt Lake City: Signature Books), 2001.
(1844–45), 586. |
| School committee |
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May 4, 1833 proposes construction of a school in
Kirtland. Named to committee with Hyrum Smith and Reynolds
Cahoon. |
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Minutes
of May 4, 1833 |
| Kirtland lot |
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May 6, 1833 granted second lot north of the House of the
Lord in Kirtland. |
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¶ D&C
94 |
| House of the Lord |
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July 23, 1833 assists in laying foundation of the House of the Lord. |
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| High council |
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February 17, 1834 selected to be a charter member of the
Kirtland high council, referred to variously as "the Presidents
church Council," "the high council
of the Church," "the Church Council," and the "standing
council in Kirtland." The council is created to resolve "important
difficulties" that cannot be settled "by the Church, or the bishop's council
to the satisfaction of the parties." Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick
G Williams are presidents of the council. |
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Minutes of February 17, 1834
D&C 102:3 |
| Upper Canada |
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February 20, 1834 assigned a mission to Upper Canada with
Phineas Young "if they can arrange their affairs at home."
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¶ Minutes
of February 20, 1834 |
| Fund-raising mission |
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April 1834 … brother JARED
CARTER, has been appointed to visit the several churches, to receive
contributions for the purpose of finishing the stone building now erecting
in this place, designed as a house of worship and praise to the Lord. |
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EMS
The Evening and the Morning Star
2,
no. 19 (Apr. 1834): 151. |
| Maine |
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June 13, 1834 presides as moderator over conference
in Saco, Maine. Seventeen branches represented, two from Pennsylvania,
three from New York, and twelve, "east of the State of N. York." |
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EMS
The Evening and the Morning Star
2,
no. 23 (Aug. 1834): 181. |
| Kirtland |
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August 30, 1834 turns in $3 of "consecrated
money" from the east. |
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Diary-1
Joseph Smith diary (Nov. 27, 1832-Dec. 5, 1834). Selected Collections, 1:20. Original, Church Archives, MS 155.
in
JS personal
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, 1st ed., compiled and edited by Dean C. Jessee (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1984).
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rev. ed., 1:47. |
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March 7, 1835 blessed for work on the House of the Lord. |
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| New York |
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July 29, 1835 Warren
A. Cowdery, presiding elder
in Freedom, New York, writes Kirtland that Jared had stopped there
to raise funds "for finishing the house in your
place." Warren acknowledges that the Messenger and
Advocate had mentioned his mission, members had forgotten it, "therefore,
we were in some degree taken on surprise. To the recollection of any of
the church, neither the Twelve, the Bishop, nor any others clothed with
authority have ever mentioned this subject to us, except incidentally."
Consequently, they were taken unawares, so when "he undertook to preach
to us yesterday, … he could get none of the Spirit of the
Lord to assist him." |
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HC
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902-1912, 1932).
2:239. |
| Tries to ruin the Twelve |
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September 1835 Jared
Carter, Dr. Cowdery, and others tried to ruin the Twelve in the
eyes of Joseph. … those men so prejudiced the mind of the First
Presidency that two of the Twelve were suspended. But there were enough
left to form a Quorum and do business. |
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Heber C. Kimball, Dec.
13, 1857,
JD
Journal of Discourses by President Brigham Young, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others, 26 vols. (Liverpool: various volumes by F. D. Richards, Orson Pratt, Asa Calkin, Amasa Lyman, George Q. Cannon, Horace S. Eldredge, William Budge, Albert Carrington, John Henry Smith, Daniel H. Wells, et. al., 1855-1886). Photo reprint, 1966.
6:127.
Minutes of September
26, 1835
¶ Minutes of January 16, 1836 |
| Rebels against counsel, errs in spirit |
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September 19, 1835 rebuked by the First Presidency
and Kirtland high council for "rebelling
against the advice and counsel of the Presidents … as he had done
before." He is directed to stand before the congregation tomorrow
and say, "Brethren, I am fully convinced that I have erred
in spirit, in my remarks before you, when I spoke here a few Sabbaths since;
and now I ask your forgiveness." Jared promises to comply. |
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Minutes
of September 19, 1835 |
| Patriarchal blessing |
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September 24, 1835 patriarchal blessing from Joseph Smith
Sr. |
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Lucy
Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Smith's Family Memoir, edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson (Salt Lake City: Signature Books), 2001.
, 808. |
| Assault by William Smith |
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December 16, 1835 when Joseph tries to stop debate, William
Smith assaults him and Jared. |
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Diary-2
Joseph Smith diary (Sept. 22, 1835-Apr. 3, 1836). Selected Collections, 1:20 // Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, rev. ed., 221-225. Original, Church Archives, MS 155.
,
JS personal
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, 1st ed., compiled and edited by Dean C. Jessee (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1984).
, rev.
ed., 134. |
| Warns out justice of the peace |
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November 7, 1836 date of petition signed by
Jared and fifty-nine other Mormons warning justice of the peace Ariel Hanson
to "depart forthwith out of Kirtland." |
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Origins
Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, D. Michael Quinn (Salt Lake City: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, 1994).
, 91, 331n43. |
| Kirtland Safety Society |
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[1836–1837] pays $171 for 2000 shares of Kirtland Safety
Society stock. |
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Kirtland economy
Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics Marvin S. Hill, C. Keith Rooker, Larry T. Wimmer. Studies in Mormon History series, vol. 3 (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1977).
, 76. |
| Assumes Joseph's financial woes |
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June 1837 Joseph Smith transfers his interests in the bank
and other assets to Jared Carter and Oliver Granger so they can settle
his obligations. |
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Kirtland Safety Society Ledger Book, 273,
cited in
Kirtland economy
"Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics," Marvin S. Hill, C. Keith Rooker, Larry T. Wimmer in BYU Studies 17, no. 4 (Summer 1977): 391-472.
, 434. |
| Dissenters |
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[August] 1837 joins dissenters David
Whitmer, Warren Parrish,
Frederick G. Williams, John
Boynton (h), and others, but is persuaded to confess
his error to the church by Lucy and Joseph Smith Sr. |
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Lucy
Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Smith's Family Memoir, edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson (Salt Lake City: Signature Books), 2001.
, 600–602. |
| High council |
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September 3, 1837 retained on Kirtland High Council (original appointment date unknown). |
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Minutes of September 3, 1837 |
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September 9, 1837 chosen president of the high council. |
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Minutes of September 9, 1837 |
| Missouri |
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October 1, 1837 has moved to Missouri, replaced on
the high council by Lyman Sherman. |
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Minutes of October
1, 1837 |
| W. W. Phelps and John Whitmer excommunicated |
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March 10, 1838 serves on high council that excommunicates
W. W. Phelps and John
Whitmer. Acts as one of three counselors assigned
to speak on behalf of the defendants. His remarks are not recorded. |
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Minutes of March
10, 1838 |
| High council in Zion |
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April 7, 1838 named to the high council in Zion. |
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Minutes of April
7, 1838 |
| Oliver excommunicated |
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April 12, 1838 high council excommunicates
Oliver Cowdery. |
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Minutes of April
12, 1838 |
| Lyman Johnson and David Whitmer excommunicated |
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April 13, 1838 high council excommunicates
Lyman E. Johnson and David Whitmer. |
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Minutes of April 13, 1838 |
| Incipient plot to kill Oliver Cowdery, Whitmers |
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Mid-June Jared Carter and Dimick B. Huntington call "a
secret meeting" in Far West where it is proposed
Oliver Cowdery and the Whitmers be killed so they cannot injure the church,
John Corrill and Thomas B. Marsh (h)
strenuously oppose the notion so the matter is dropped. |
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Peck manuscript
Reed Peck manuscript. Holograph dated Quincy, Adams county, Illinois, September 18, 1839. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Photocopy, Special Collections, Marriott Library, University of Utah. References on this site from the version on New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Comprehensive Resource Library (Smith Research Associates), 1998.
, 23.
Original: March |
| Sidney's salt sermon |
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June 17, 1838 [Sunday] Sidney
Rigdon preaches in Far West,
taking Matthew 5:13 as his text. He informs the Saints that: |
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Peck manuscript
Reed Peck manuscript. Holograph dated Quincy, Adams county, Illinois, September 18, 1839. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Photocopy, Special Collections, Marriott Library, University of Utah. References on this site from the version on New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Comprehensive Resource Library (Smith Research Associates), 1998.
, 24–25.
"Ye are the salt of the
earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden
under foot of men." Matthew 5:13
Salt sermon
"Far West Dissenters and the Gamblers at Vicksburg: An Examination of the Documentary Evidence and Historical Context of Sidney Rigdon's Salt Sermon," John E. Thompson in Restoration (Jan. 1986): 21-27.
, the best source on the Salt Sermon, also documents the
lynching of five professional gamblers in Vicksburg, July 6, 1835.
Source |
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they had a set of men among them that had dissented from
the church and were doing all in their power to destroy the presidency,
laying plans to take their lives &c., accused them of counterfeiting
lying cheating and numerous other crimes and called on the people to rise
[25] en masse and rid the county of Such a nuisance He said it is the duty
of this people to trample them into the earth, and if the county cannot
be freed from them any other way I will assit to trample them down or to
erect a gallows on the Square of Far West and hang them up as they did
the gamblers at Vicksburgh and it would be an act at which the angels would
smile with approbation |
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| Joseph endorses salt sermon |
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Joseph Smith in a Short speech Sanctioned what had been Said
by Rigdon though said he I don't what [want] the brethren to act unlawfully
but [26] will tell them one thing Judas was a traitor and instead of hanging
himself was hung by Peter, and with this hint the subject was dropped for
the day having created a great excitement and prepared the people to execute
anything that should be proposed. |
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| Warns out dissenters |
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June 1838 Jared is one of 83 signators, letter warning Oliver
Cowdery, David Whitmer, John
Whitmer,
W. W. Phelps, and Lyman
E. Johnson out of Caldwell county. |
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Part of the letter and all of the signators'
names are in
Document
Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders &c., in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons and the Evidence Given Before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, at the Court-House in Richmond, in a Criminal Court of Inquiry, Begun November 12, 1838, on the Trial of Joseph Smith Jr., and Others for High Treason and Other Crimes Against the State (Fayette, Missouri: by order of the General Assembly at the office of Boon's Lick Democrat, 1841).
, 103–106. Source |
| Daughters of Zion |
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June [30], 1838 "About the last of June," Reed Peck attends
a Danite meeting arranged by Jared Carter, George W. Robinson, and Sampson
Avard, by direction of the First Presidency. Carter, Robinson, and Avard
"had formed a secret military Society, called the 'daughter of Zion' and
were holding meetings to initiate members." |
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Peck manuscript
Reed Peck manuscript. Holograph dated Quincy, Adams county, Illinois, September 18, 1839. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Photocopy, Special Collections, Marriott Library, University of Utah. References on this site from the version on New Mormon Studies CD-ROM: A Comprehensive Resource Library (Smith Research Associates), 1998.
, 23. |
| Danite |
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July 4, 1838 military band passes in review of "Generals"
Jared Carter, Sampson
Avard and Cornelius P. Lott. According
to Reed Peck, Jared was "captain general of the band," but about "the
last of June, or first of July" Reed heard Dr. Avard say "that
he had just returned from a council with, the presidency, in which council
Jared Carter was broken of his office of Captain General of the Danite band,
for having spoken against Sidney Rigdon." |
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¶ Order
of the Day, July 4, 1838
Document
Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders &c., in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons and the Evidence Given Before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, at the Court-House in Richmond, in a Criminal Court of Inquiry, Begun November 12, 1838, on the Trial of Joseph Smith Jr., and Others for High Treason and Other Crimes Against the State (Fayette, Missouri: by order of the General Assembly at the office of Boon's Lick Democrat, 1841).
, 120 Source
¶ Sidney's Independence Day Oration
Danites:
Document
Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders &c., in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons and the Evidence Given Before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, at the Court-House in Richmond, in a Criminal Court of Inquiry, Begun November 12, 1838, on the Trial of Joseph Smith Jr., and Others for High Treason and Other Crimes Against the State (Fayette, Missouri: by order of the General Assembly at the office of Boon's Lick Democrat, 1841).
;
Danite band
"Danite Band of 1838," Leland H. Gentry in BYU Studies 14, no. 4 (Summer 1974): 421-450.
;
Rockwood journal
"Last Months of Mormonism in Missouri: The Albert Perry Rockwood Journal," edited by Dean C. Jessee and David J. Whittaker in BYU Studies 28, no. 1 (Winter 1988): 5-41.
;
Origins
Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, D. Michael Quinn (Salt Lake City: Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, 1994).
93–99, 479–490;
Northern Missouri
"History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836-1839," Leland Homer Gentry (Ph.D. diss., Brigham Young University, 1965; published by the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History and BYU Studies as part of the Disserations in Latter-day Saint History series, 2000).
, 115–130. |
| John E. Page and John Taylor ordained apostles |
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December 19, 1838 attends high council meeting in Far West,
Brigham Young presiding, where John E. Page and John Taylor are appointed apostles to fill vacancies in the Quorum
of the Twelve. They are ordained by Brigham Young and Heber
C. Kimball. |
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Minutes of December 19, 1838 |
| Nauvoo |
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1839 moves to Nauvoo. |
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Early documents
Early Mormon Documents, compiled and edited by Dan Vogel. 4 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002).
4:102. |
| Accused of seeking Joseph's destruction |
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[March 27, 1843 Joseph Smith to Sidney Rigdon:] I am, Sir,
honest, when I say that I believe, & <am> laboring under the fullest conviction
that you are actually practising deception and wickedness against me and
the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and that you are in connection
with John C. Bennett, & Geo W. Robinson in the whole of their abomin[a]ble
practices in seeking to destroy me and this people and that Jared Carter,
is as deep {Sir} in the mud as you, <Sir,> are in the mire, in your conspiracies
and that you are in the exercise of a traitrous spirit against our lives
and interest by combining with our Enemies and the murderous Missourians. |
|
Diary-1
Joseph Smith diary (Nov. 27, 1832-Dec. 5, 1834). Selected Collections, 1:20. Original, Church Archives, MS 155.
in
PWJS
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, rev. ed., compiled and edited by Dean C. Jessee (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002).
, 47 //
HC
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902-1912, 1932).
5:313.
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| Sidney: Jared innocent |
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[March [27], 1843 Sidney's reply:] As to Jared
Carter, if there is anything in his mind unfavorably disposed
to you, he has, as far as I know, kept it to himself; for he never said
anything to me, nor in my hearing, from which I could draw even an inference
of that kind. He was here yesterday, when you came, much dejected in
spirit in relation to his temporal affairs, and commenced telling of
the great injuries he had received by his son-in-law, and the great losses
he had sustained by him, and seemed greatly dejected on account of it;
but he never mentioned any other subject. |
|
HC
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902-1912, 1932).
5: 315. |
| Seeks temple slot |
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June 8, 1843 Elias Higbee, temple committee member, passes
away. Jared "was very anxious to have the appointment and, for some cause
or other, claimed it as his right. But the Spirit whispered that it would
not be wisdom to appoint him. After some delay and consultation on the
subject, the Patriarch Hyrum Smith was appointed by the Trustee-in Trust,
with the consent of the other committee." |
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William Clayton, "An Interesting Journal,"
JI
Juvenile Instructor
,
21. |
| Mission to defend Joseph's reputation |
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July 3, 1843 at Joseph's behest, the Twelve call many elders,
including Jared, to preach the gospel throughout Illinois and "disabuse
the public mind with regard to my arrest." |
|
HC
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902-1912, 1932).
5:485. |
| Disfellowshipped |
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July 16, 1844 Jared confesses and promises "to return to
the church." |
|
HC
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1902-1912, 1932).
7:271. |
| Chicago |
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By January 1847 member, Yoree branch, Chicago. |
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Early documents
Early Mormon Documents, compiled and edited by Dan Vogel. 4 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002).
4:100. |
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From Colesville to Thompson |
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Determined to move
to Ohio
Build up Zion
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[After making known his decision to move to Ohio, one neighbor]
offerd to give me a piece of land if I would stay and live in the place
but I replied that not for 15 of the best farms in the place would I stay
in Chenengo [Chenango] one year I realising
that that glorious time had come even the return of the captive daughter
of Zion I commenced immediately to sell of my things & to make known
of the building up of Zion |
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
, 7.
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| Cayuga lake, canals |
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April 1831 travels "with the Church
of Christ" from Ithaca on the south end of Cayuga Lake, up the lake
to the Cayuga and Seneca Canal, which connects to the Erie Canal. |
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
, 7. |
| Malcontents |
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on this Journey many of us had sevire trials
being many of us in one boat and some of the members that did not enjoy
religion whose conduct constantly was contrary to the commands which members
were afterwords cut of from the church we continued on the canal to Buffalo |
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
, 7. |
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The Buffalo harbor is closed by ice. |
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Newel Knight dismisses
prayer suggestion
Jared's feelings hurt |
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on seeing this I prayed constenly to the Lord
and it appeared to me that if Newel Knight who
was an elder & some others with myself should go to some plase as refinement & call
apon God earnesly that god would immediately remove the ice so that we
could go on to the West after vary plainly having these views I informed
Newel Nights of the same but he spoke so lightly of my feelings or views
that I was some afflicted for his words sake
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
, 8–10.
Original: Nights
Newel led the Colesville church to Buffalo. |
| Takes party overland
to Dunkirk |
|
soon after this it was thout by the Church best
to have about 12 or 13 of the brethren go on to the Ohio by land or go
on to Duncook [Dunkirk] & take the steem boat acordingly they appointed me to
take the charge of the Brethren and sent us on |
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| Troublemakers |
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we had not gone far before I found that my place
was a going to be some afflictive for there was I found two or three of
our company of brethren that was vary liable to get out of the way and
did transgress the Commands of God this was vary try[ing] to me for I knew
hardly |
what to do with them
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Steamship
Lay over at Erie
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[9] At Dunkirk, Jared and his band board a steamship
for Fairport, but a stiff wind forces the captain to tie up at Erie, Pennsylvania
(just 50 miles from Buffalo), until the storm passes. |
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| Afflictions of mind |
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we waited for a number of hours but aparently
all in vain this Caused us some considerable afflictions of mind for we
were there in the mids[t] of a wicked rabble of profane and wicked men
several hundred of them about 2 miles from land boat tied to a peir that
was made by a sand bar out in the lake and the wind unceasing continualy
the boat roobling for the waves
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Suggests prayer
No results
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being in this situation I was considerablely
afflicted and began to convers with my brethren saying will not the Lord
hear our prayers and open the way that the boat may go along I for one
believe that he is willing to help us from this place this I mentioned
[10] to a number of the brethren and we all agreed to pray to our heavenly
father that he would cause the winds to sease we continued our prayer to
God all the day & we could not discover that our prayers prevailed
anything for the wind Blew ful as high if not hier than when we first began
to call apon the Lord |
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this being the case I was afflicted to my inmost
soul for it appeard to me that I had prayed in faith & my Prayer was
not anwered for I had had so much of the Spirit in praying that I had that
day Prophecied to my Brethren that the wind would sease in this furnace
of trials |
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I said in my heart what meneth these things
O Lord why is it thus with me is not thy promise true which says what soever
ye ask in faith it shall be done yes Lord thy promise is true & it
will be done so shure as I had faith & I after a moments reflections
said I know that I had faith & my prayer will be answered & I know
that the wind [11] | will sease immediately
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after having these considerations the scripture
came in to my mind Relative to him who worketh in the hearts of the children
of disabedianc of his being the princ of the power of the air |
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Commands wind
Wind stops
Continue to Fairport
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and [as] soon as this Scripure came into my
mind there was an influanc as a voice Speaking within me go and Command
the wind in the name of Christ to sease I immediately arose and went out
of the hearing of the wicked Crowd and Said in the name of Jesus Christ
I command the winds to sease & the wind from that moment began to sease & in
a bout fifteen minutes it was Stoped & the boat then soon started on
we in a few hours after this Landed in ohio at fairport |
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Joseph Smith
Thompson
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From Fairport
Harbor, Jared
proceeds through Painesville to Kirtland where he greets Joseph Smith and
is informed that the Colesville church will settle on Leman
Copley's farm in Thompson,
about 26 miles east of Kirtland. Jared and his companions go to Thompson
to begin preparations. Their families and belongings arrive at Fairport
on May 13. |
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May 13:
Journal history
Journal History. Selected Collections, DVD 2:1-36. Original, Church Office Building Library.
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1831. |
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Thompson Events |
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Adversity in Thompson
Especially Newel Knight
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[At Thompson] was one of
the most trying seans that I ever experienced for the grand adversary of
all souls gained great power over some of my Brethren and among the rest
of my Brethren I was most shockingly tempted
… more expecially in consequence
of Newel Knight's adresses to me for his Statement thretens and Commands
to me |
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
12–17.
Original: Nights |
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[13] … not for the whole
would [world] would I have disobeyed God in one of the Least of his commands
yet he came to me in the following language |
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the Spirit you have is not the
true sprit and the winds never obeyed there never was any healed under
your prayers you never wrought any mericles unless it was by the power
of the devil and now says he I command you to repent in the name of Christ
or you will be cast off |
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as he spoke these sentences the
words droped into my mind which words are found in the book of mormon
no man can do a merical in the name
[14]
Christ exept he be evry whit cleansed from Sin |
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… after hearing him
some time I said unto him what shall I do have you seen any thing in my
daly walk and conversation that is contrary to the commands of God he
answered no I have not seen but that you and your wife are as examplary
as any of the whole church
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after having this interview I had
some of the most sever trials but I did not believe all broth Nights
said was exactly so for if I had I should as soon believed that there was
no God as anything else |
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In Thompson, Jared's wife, who
initially opposed his participation in the church, fearing it was a
delusion, is baptized. |
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[15]
… about this time there was some
displays of the power of god mirracalously in the church in thomson
by the instrumentality of Br. Joseph the sear … my youngest child … was
disstresingly sick at which time Joseph came to my house and I told him
that I had faith that the babe might be healed he then spoke in the name
of the Lord that it should be acording to my faith the child was healed
immediately |
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the same day there was one of our sisters healed from blindness by his instrumentality |
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| Simeon Carter heals |
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I also saw another display of the
healing power the 6th of June in Kirkland which took plase by the instrumentality
of my Natural Brother Simeon Carter |
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| Female mortally injured |
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She had the day before fallen
from a wagon on the way to the meeting She to evry apparance was mortally
bruised and she was not expected to Live but a vary short time She was
So badly bruised that she told me that she could not move even one of hur
toes and she was in grat pain |
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Jared urges faith
Simeon commands her to walk
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I conversed with hur and told
hur that she need not have any more pain I also spoke of my Brother Simeon & told
hur that he was one that was endowed with power from on high and that
she might be healed if she had faith after this, Brother Simeon
[17]
Conversed with hur & after he had Conversed with hur a while he took
hur by the hand and said I cammand you in the Name of Jesus Christ to rise
up & walk and She arose & walked from room to room |
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June [4], 1831
Conference |
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on Friday before this was that
memerable day when God first gave the fullness of the high priesthood
to the Elders of the Church of Christ |
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Jared Carter diary
Jared Carter diary. Microfilm of holograph, Church Archives, MS 1441.
17–29. This text follows directly after
"room to room" above. |
Joseph not natural speaker
Filled with Holy Ghost
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at this interview Brother Joseph
not withstanding he is not naturaly talanted for a Speaker yet he was
filled with the power of the holy ghost So that he S[p]oke as I never
heard man speak for God by the power of the holy ghost Spoke in him and
marvilous was the displays of the power of the spirit among the Elders
preasant |
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[18] here at this interview I met
my Brother Simeon who I had not seen for eight years he had |
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left Benson in
a vermont when I lived there and had lived in Ohio and at this place we
met in the faith of the Church of Christ this meeting Shurly was a meeting
of meetins to me not only on the account of the glorious displays of the
power of the spirit of God in meeting but also to see a natural brother
So filled with Spirit of god one whom I had at former times dispaired
of all most because of his backwardness in the cause of god … I had
much Conversation with this brother [19]
And by his instrumentality was helped out of some of my trials that I
had been thrown into by Newel Knight …
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I concluded to remove my family
to the town of Amherst where my Brother lived … |
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Refuses to be ordained an elder
Because of Newel Knight comments |
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there was some
conversation among some of the Elders as I had ought to be ordained but
I informed them not withstanding I felt as though it was my in[d]ispensabl[e]
duty to preach the Gospel that I was unwilling to be ordained unless it
was by the consent of all the Elders … for I had heard that newel
Knight had said that it was not expediant that I should be ordained
but it did appear by revelation that God required that I should be ordained |
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from here I returned to Thompson & [20]
made preperations and removed my family to Amherst |
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Lydia Ames
md. September 20,
1825;
d. September 22, 1865 in DeKalb, Illinois. |
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Marriage, FamilySearch™ Ancestral
File v4.19; death date courtesy of Chuck Ford.
Gravestone |
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Evaline (b. 1824, Benson, Vermont) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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*Ellen (b. November 16, 1827, Benson, Vermont) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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*Orlando (b. January 29, 1830, Benson, Vermont) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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*Clark (b. December 16, 1831, Benson, Vermont) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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*Lydia (b. 1835, Vermont) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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Jared W. (b. March 4, 1838, Kirtland, Ohio) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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David (b. 1842, Lake county, Ohio) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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Rosabella (b. 1844, Lake county, Ohio) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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Joseph (b. 1846, Illinois) |
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FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 |
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* These locations are doubtful as Jared and Lydia were living in Chenengo,
New York by 1830 and as far as I can tell, never moved back. |
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