Colesville Saints Left Ithaca for Buffalo

25 April 1831

Colesville, New York, church members, numbering about sixty-eight men, women, and children, left Ithaca, New York, arriving in Buffalo, New York, on 1 May.

Ira J. Willes, Statement, 20 May 1862, CHL; List of Colesville branch members, in Willes, Diary; Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 299–302; Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 11, [6]–[7]; Journal History of the Church, 25 July 1831.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Willes, Ira J. Statement, 20 May 1862. CHL. MS 4050.

Willes, Ira J. Diary, no date. Willes Family Papers, ca. 1831–1871. CHL. MS 2014.

Porter, Larry C. “A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816–1831.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1971. Also available as A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816–1831, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).

Smith, Lucy Mack. History, 1844–1845. 18 books. CHL. MS 2049. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.

Historical Department. Journal History of the Church, 1896–. CHL. CR 100 137.

Colesville Saints Left Ithaca for Buffalo

25 April 1831

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