and who are influential men. We intend to sell our property to honorable men who will come here and sustain it, but we will not let the mob have it. He told that when we had sold all we could we should put the rest of it in the hands of those who will pay us for it. We will be perfectly thronged from this time, to the time we go away with men who will come with wagons, horses, mules and money to buy our property. The Lord knows that we have done with this nation and the same God that overrules the mob will overrule the sale of our property and he believes we shall dispose of the whole of it. There will be other committees selected [p. [71]]
At the church’s general conference four days later, nine committees were formed to supervise the selling of land at several Mormon settlements. However, there is no evidence that these committees acted as traveling agents. (Conference Minutes, Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1845, 6:1015.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.