Letter to John Corrill and the Church in Missouri, 4 September 1837

Sendeth greeting, Blessed be the  God of and father of our Lord Jesus  Christ Who has blessed you with many  blessings in Christ, And who has delivered  you many times from the hands of your  enimies And planted you many times  in an heavenly or holy place, My res pects & love to you all, and my bless ings upon all the faithfull & true harted  in the new & everlasting covenant & for as  much as I have desired for a long time  to see your faces, & converse with you  & instruct you in those things which  have been revealed to Me partaining  to the Kingdom of God in the last  days, I now write unto you offering  an appolegy, My being bound with  bonds of affliction by the workers of ini quity and by the labours of the Ch urch

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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endeaveroung in all things to do  the will of God, for the salvation of the  Church both in temporal as well as  spiritual things. Bretheren we have wai ded through a scene of affliction and sor row thus far for the will of God, that lan guage is inadequate to describe pray  yea therefore with more earnestness  for our redemption, You have undo ubtedly been informed by letter  & otherwise of our difficulties in Kirtla nd

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...

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which are now about being settled  and that you may have a knowledge of  the same I subscribe to you the following  minuits of the comittee, of the whole Church  of Kirtland

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...

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the authorities &.c. refering you  to my brother Hyrum [Smith]

9 Feb. 1800–27 June 1844. Farmer, cooper. Born at Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vermont. Son of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack. Moved to Randolph, Orange Co., 1802; to Tunbridge, before May 1803; to Royalton, Windsor Co., Vermont, 1804; to Sharon, Windsor Co., by...

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& br. T[homas] B. Marsh

1 Nov. 1800–Jan. 1866. Farmer, hotel worker, waiter, horse groom, grocer, type foundry worker, teacher. Born at Acton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Son of James Marsh and Molly Law. Married first Elizabeth Godkin, 1 Nov. 1820, at New York City. Moved to ...

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 for further particulars also that you [p. 19]