Minutes, 16 November 1832

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Kirtland Township
Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Latter-day Saint missionaries visited township, early Nov. 1830; many residents joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and...
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, OH], 16 Nov. 1832. Featured version copied [between 2 Jan. and ca. 9 Jan. 1833] in Minute Book 1, p. 5; handwriting of
Frederick G. Williams
28 Oct. 1787–10 Oct. 1842. Ship’s pilot, teacher, physician, justice of the peace. Born at Suffield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Son of William Wheeler Williams and Ruth Granger. Moved to Newburg, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, 1799. Practiced Thomsonian botanical system...
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; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Minute Book 1.
Historical Introduction
Beginning with the first
conference
A meeting where ecclesiastical officers and other church members could conduct church business. The “Articles and Covenants” of the church directed the elders to hold conferences to perform “Church business.” The first of these conferences was held on 9 June...
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of the
Church of Christ
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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in June 1830, conferences often served as settings for ordaining individuals to church offices.
1
See Minutes, 9 June 1830.
Judging from extant minutes, many conferences included both ordinations and other church business. However, the minutes of this 16 November 1832 conference in
Kirtland
Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Latter-day Saint missionaries visited township, early Nov. 1830; many residents joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and...
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, Ohio, suggest that ordinations were at times the sole business of a conference. These minutes record that JS
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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John F. Boynton
20 Sept. 1811–20 Oct. 1890. Merchant, lecturer, scientist, inventor, dentist. Born at East Bradford (later Groveland), Essex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Eliphalet Boynton and Susanna Nichols. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by JS,...
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, who had recently returned from a mission with
Zebedee Coltrin
7 Sept. 1804–21 July 1887. Born at Ovid, Seneca Co., New York. Son of John Coltrin and Sarah Graham. Member of Methodist church. Married first Julia Ann Jennings, Oct. 1828. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Solomon Hancock, 9 Jan...
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,
2
Coltrin, Diary and Notebook, 27 Sept. 1832, 5 Oct. 1832.
Comprehensive Works Cited
Coltrin, Zebedee. Diary and Notebook, 1832–1833. Zebedee Coltrin, Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443, fd. 2.
as 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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. JS’s scribe
Frederick G. Williams
28 Oct. 1787–10 Oct. 1842. Ship’s pilot, teacher, physician, justice of the peace. Born at Suffield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Son of William Wheeler Williams and Ruth Granger. Moved to Newburg, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, 1799. Practiced Thomsonian botanical system...
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acted as clerk of the meeting and later entered the minutes into Minute Book 1.
3
See Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832.

Footnotes
1. 1
  See Minutes, 9 June 1830.
2. 2
  Coltrin, Diary and Notebook, 27 Sept. 1832, 5 Oct. 1832.
  
  Coltrin, Zebedee. Diary and Notebook, 1832–1833. Zebedee Coltrin, Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443, fd. 2.
3. 3
  See Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832.

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A of assembled November 16th. 1832— and Bro an Elder by Bro Joseph Smith J

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A of assembled November 16th. 1832— and Bro an Elder by Bro Joseph Smith J

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Editorial Title
Minutes, 16 November 1832
ID #
7239
Total Pages
1
Print Volume Location
JSP, D2:314
Handwriting on This Page
- Frederick G. Williams
Footnotes
1. 1
  An 1884 letter from Boynton suggests that he considered “Boyington” an alternate spelling of “Boynton.” (See Boynton, An Epistle of John Farnham Boynton, [1].)
  
  Boynton, John Farnham. An Epistle of John Farnham Boynton, to All the Boyntons, Boyingtons, and Byingtons of the Western Hemisphere; Greeting. Happy New Year. Syracuse, NY: No publisher, 1 Jan. 1884. Copy at CHL.
2. 2
  This ordination may have occurred in preparation for Boynton to undertake another mission with Zebedee Coltrin. On 19 November, Boynton and Coltrin, accompanied by William Cahoon, left Kirtland, Ohio, on a mission to the East. (Coltrin, Diary and Notebook, 19 Nov. 1832.)
  
  Coltrin, Zebedee. Diary and Notebook, 1832–1833. Zebedee Coltrin, Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443, fd. 2.

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