, Letter, , Essex Co., NY, to JS and Kirtland high council, , Geauga Co., OH, 20 Oct. 1834. Featured version copied [not before 25 Feb. 1836] in Minute Book 1, pp. 78–80; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Minute Book 1.
us to collect all our monies, and appointed a day for the church to come together for council. Accordingly we came together and after consecration [conversation] chose a moderator & clerk to keep the record of the church, counselled together concerning property ownd by the church, and commenced to make sale, and collect pay according to the voice of the church in order to collect all the monies owned by the church & send by the hands of wise men, which were appointed by the voice of the church; one and the other a according to the will of God.
, County of Essex N. Y.)
Oct. 20 1834.)
A of the , agreeable to the requirement of heaven, have strove to unite their hearts and views in order to be found spotless before the blazing throne of the great Jehovah, when he comes to make up his jewels, and for this end do send property by the hands of wise men appointed by the voice of the church, (agreeable to the revelation concerning the redemption of ) for the purpose of purchasing land in or counties, round about, for the of the church. Agreeable to this we give our names with the affix sums annexed.
One hundred dollars to be left in in boots & shoes
A later JS history containing a copy of these minutes has “conversation” here instead of “consecration.” (JS History, vol. B-1, 561.)
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
This donation is not included in the aggregate amount of $848.40. John Tippets may have been referring to this money when he remembered his cousin Alvah making an additional “donation of one hundred” dollars. (Tippets, Autobiography, 20.)
Tippets, John Harvey. Autobiography, ca. 1882. Photocopy. CHL. MS 5668.
The 1830 census shows David Bragg, who was between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine, as living in Lewis, New York. (1830 U.S. Census, Lewis, Essex Co., NY, 318.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
As of the 1830 census, Zebulon Adams lived in Willsboro, Essex County, New York. In 1832, he accompanied Jared Carter as Carter preached in Essex County. (1830 U.S. Census, Willsboro, Essex Co., NY, 331; Jared Carter, Journal, 105.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Gustavus Perry, who lived in Lewis, was a cousin to the Tippets family. He worked as a farmer and a sawyer in a mill. (1830 U.S. Census, Lewis, Essex Co., NY, 316; Taylor, Heavens Are No Longer as Brass over Our Heads, 4–5; Whitney, History of Utah, 4:439.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Taylor, Matthew J. The Heavens Are No Longer as Brass over Our Heads: A Biography; Alvah Lewis Tippets, 1809–1847. Provo, UT: By the author, 2013.
Whitney, Orson F. History of Utah. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon and Sons, 1904.