what is right, he will warrant that every man will come out right and we shall triump over our enemies.
Of the 25 companies of 100 families each now organizing, 20 companies by their captains made report, the sum total of said reports are as follows
916 Horses, 639 Wagons, 18 Buggs [buggies], 227 Yoke of Oxen 251 Cows, 54 men and Guns, and 70 teams ready to start at one hours notice.
Coun. arose to make some remarks concerning men and women teaching rediculous doctrines, saying that a woman cannot get an endowmant without a man, nor a man without a woman &c.
The proposed to the capns. of 100s & 50s. to use their influence to have as few women and children as possible, go with the first company, but let us go and prepare a place for them, so that they can follow in the spring, bringing their cows and other things to make themselves comfortable.
He shall want all those men who are in danger [p. [112]]
A report of this meeting in the Record of Seventies summarized, “This day a council was held in the House of the Lord, for the purpose of inquiring as to who had the means, and where [were] prepared to go West immediately, if worst comes to worst. The Captains of Fifties, and tens were questioned on this matter and made their report. They reported Seventy span of horses an[d] seventy waggons ready for immediate service.” (Record of Seventies, bk. B, 13 Jan. 1846.)
Record of Seventies / First Council of the Seventy. “General Record of the Seventies Book B. Commencing Nauvoo 1844,” 1844–1848. Bk. B. In First Council of the Seventy, Records, 1837–1885. CHL. CR 3 51, box 2, fd. 1.
As Kimball here implies, unmarried individuals participated in temple endowment ceremonies in Nauvoo. See, for example, the cases of sixteen-year-old Eunice Billings and nineteen-year-old Zadoc Judd. (“A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Sept. 1910, 39:22; Kimball, Journal, 3 Jan. 1846; Judd, Autobiography of Zadoc Knapp Judd, 20; Record of Seventies, bk. B, 23 Jan. 1846.)
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
Kimball, Heber C. Journal, Nov. 1845–Jan. 1846. CHL.
Judd, Zadoc Knapp. Autobiography of Zadoc Knapp Judd (1827–1909). [Provo, UT]: Brigham Young University Library, 1954. Copy at CHL. MS 4545.
Record of Seventies / First Council of the Seventy. “General Record of the Seventies Book B. Commencing Nauvoo 1844,” 1844–1848. Bk. B. In First Council of the Seventy, Records, 1837–1885. CHL. CR 3 51, box 2, fd. 1.