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Thomas Ford Suggested that Saints Settle in Mexican California

8 April 1845

Thomas Ford wrote from Springfield to Brigham Young advising him to organize Nauvoo into several adjacent towns each one mile square as permitted by state’s general incorporation laws and suggesting that Saints should settle in Mexican California.
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