Minutes, 30 April 1833
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Source Note
Minutes, , Geauga Co., OH, 30 Apr. 1833. Featured version copied [between 4 June and ca. 6 June 1833] in Minute Book 1, pp. 19–20; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Minute Book 1.
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Historical Introduction
These minutes of a midweek meeting of demonstrate the variety of concerns that occupied the attention of JS and other leaders of the . In the meeting, participants made financial and administrative decisions while also determining how to follow directions given in a JS revelation. At the meeting, the high priests appointed to raise funds, designated to lead the church branch in , Ohio, and discussed ’s immigration to . Jaques had recently arrived in , Ohio, with a large financial donation for the church, and a revelation dated 8 March 1833 directed that she “should receive money to bear her expences and go up unto the Land of and the residue of her money I [the Lord] will unto myself and reward her in mine own due time.” This , presided over by JS, decided that she would travel with , who was moving to Missouri to work as a typographer for The Evening and the Morning Star in .
Footnotes
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Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833 [D&C 90:28].
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2
“Obituary,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Dec. 1833, 117.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
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he should have letters of reccommendation and an Epistle to that church and take the oversight thereof and as soon as is convenient moove to that place
it was also decided that Sister should not immediately procede on her Journy to but to wait untill gets ready and go in company with him no further business the closed
Clk PT. [pro tempore] [p. 20]
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