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Nauvoo City Council, Resolution,
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, 18 Dec. 1841. Version copied [ca. 18 Dec. 1841] in Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, p. 37; handwriting of
James Sloan
28 Oct. 1792–24 Oct. 1886. City recorder, notary public, attorney, judge, farmer. Born in Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. Son of Alexander Sloan and Anne. Married Mary Magill. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ordained an elder, ...
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Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, February–December 1841
Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845 Resolution, 18 December 1841–A, as Published in Times and Seasons History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 Addenda “History of Joseph Smith”
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Resolved by the City Council of the City of
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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, That the high minded & honorable Editor of the New York Weekly Herald—
James Gordon Bennett
1 Sept. 1795–1 June 1872. Journalist, newspaper owner. Born at Newmill, Keith, Banffshire, Scotland. Catholic. Moved to Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, ca. 1815; to Halifax, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, 1819; to Boston; to New York, ca. 1822; to Charleston...
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, Esq. is deserving of the lasting gratitude of this Community, for his very liberal & unprejudiced Course towards us as a People, in giving us a fair hearing in his Paper,— thus enabling us to reach the Ears of a Portion of the Community, who, otherwise, would ever have remained ignorant of our principles & practices. [p. 37]
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