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Appendix: Letter to Nancy Rigdon, circa Mid-April 1842, as Published in Bennett, History of the Saints

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Nauvoo

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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Nancy Rigdon

8 Dec. 1822–1 Nov. 1887. Born in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Sidney Rigdon and Phebe Brooks. Moved to Bainbridge, Geauga Co., Ohio, 1826. Moved to Mentor, Geauga Co., 1827. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, likely ca. Nov. 1830, in Ohio...

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Nauvoo

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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, Hancock Co., IL, ca. mid-Apr. 1842]. Version published [ca. early Nov. 1842] in John C. Bennett, History of the Saints; or, an Exposé of Joe Smith and Mormonism, Boston: Leland and Whiting, 243–245.

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See Historical Introduction to Appendix: Letter to Nancy Rigdon, ca. Mid-Apr. 1842.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Appendix: Letter to Nancy Rigdon, circa Mid-April 1842

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“Happiness is the object and design of our existence, and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God; but we cannot keep all the commandments without first knowing them, and we cannot expect to know all, or more than we now know, unless we comply with or keep those we [p. 243]
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