License for Manorris Goff, between 8 July and 5 October 1840

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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], for Manorris Goff, between 8 July and 5 Oct. 1840. Version copied [between ca. 8 July and ca. 5 Oct. 1840] in General Church Record, License Record Book, p. 55; handwriting of Manorris Goff; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for License Record Book.
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See Historical Introduction to License for Hosea Stout, 20 Apr. 1840.
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This certifies that Manorris M. Goff has been received into the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...
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, organized on the sixth of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty and has been
ordained
The conferral of power and authority; to appoint, decree, or set apart. Church members, primarily adults, were ordained to ecclesiastical offices and other responsibilities by the laying on of hands by those with the proper authority. Ordinations to priesthood...
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an
Elder
A male leader in the church generally; an ecclesiastical and priesthood office or one holding that office; a proselytizing missionary. The Book of Mormon explained that elders ordained priests and teachers and administered “the flesh and blood of Christ unto...
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according to the rules and regulations of said Church; and is duly Authorized to preach the gospel, agreeably to the Authority of that office

Given by the direction of a general conference of the Authorities of said Church, assembled in
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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Ill. on the sixth of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty

Joseph Smith Jr Pres

R[obert] B. Thompson
1 Oct. 1811–27 Aug. 1841. Clerk, editor. Born in Great Driffield, Yorkshire, England. Methodist. Immigrated to Upper Canada, 1834. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Parley P. Pratt, May 1836, in Upper Canada. Ordained an elder by...
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