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Instruction, 16 January 1836
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and I do place unlimited
confidence in your word for I believe you to be men of truth,
and I ask the same of you, when I tell you any thing that you
place equal confidence in my word for I will not tell you I know anything which
I do not know— but I have already consumed more time than I intended
to when I commenced and I will now give way to my colleagues [p. 124]
JS, instruction, Kirtland, OH, 16 Jan. 1836; handwriting of unidentified scribe and Warren Parrish; in JS, Journal, Sept. 1835–Apr. 1836, pp. 122–124; JS Collection, CHL.
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...
More Info10 Jan. 1803–3 Jan. 1877. Clergyman, gardener. Born in New York. Son of John Parrish and Ruth Farr. Married first Elizabeth (Betsey) Patten of Westmoreland Co., New Hampshire, ca. 1822. Lived at Alexandria, Jefferson Co., New York, 1830. Purchased land at...
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