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Letter from Joseph Bosworth, 17 February 1834

 
and in my travils I came to a house Some where  East of this place. where many of our Breathren  were, and the house was closed and the Breathren  were fasting and praying – I Saw a man out Side  of the house who told me that he was to watch till  morning. Just at Day break while it was yet  hardly Light enough to See. the Doors of the house  wrere opened the Breathren who had ben in the house  and were then in the house and out at this Door  were Leeping Shouting and praising God beyond any  thing that I ever Saw or heard – I thought they had  received Something in the house Like a powerfull  Shock of Elecrisity in which Great misteries of  God had ben unfolded. they understood all the Defects  of a pretended religion or religions among men  and Some of them talked So Ernist and Said thing  which I remember now and Ever Shall, while a  white Spittle flew out of many of there Mouths  the misteries of the Gospel the misteries of Godliness and the  misteries of Eternity Seemed to be understood Instaneously  and many of our Breathren were there who now Live  in 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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 many of <whom I> have Seen and Know them
Glory be to God on high and him at this great  Scene my Breathren the full interpitations was  understood of all that God had Shown me in my Vision  and even I felt my Self clothed <with> the Knowledge of God.]  [My Dear Breathren my heart Doth throb my Soul now  Leaps for Joy-- and my tears hide my paper and Shall  have to lay Down my pen. O the goodness of God--]  My Dear Breathren and Sisters Do offer up our prayer  to God in my behalf] I now procede again with my  Last Vision – immediately following after I Left  this place where the Breathren were gethered for this  Sollom Scene-- I Saw my Self five or Six hundred  Miles East in the State of new york

Located in northeast region of U.S. Area settled by Dutch traders, 1620s; later governed by Britain, 1664–1776. Admitted to U.S. as state, 1788. Population in 1810 about 1,000,000; in 1820 about 1,400,000; in 1830 about 1,900,000; and in 1840 about 2,400,...

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 in a Large  Village – [the <Scene> that I went through there I Shall have  entirely to Omit and many others things as <my> paper will not  hold out–] Dear Br Sidney [Rigdon]

19 Feb. 1793–14 July 1876. Tanner, farmer, minister. Born at St. Clair, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Son of William Rigdon and Nancy Gallaher. Joined United Baptists, ca. 1818. Preached at Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and vicinity, 1819–1821. Married Phebe...

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 in my travels I came where  I found our old Br Walter Scott and in Conversation with  him he yealded to me and we Clasped Each other in our  arms and it seem to me that we farely Melted  together on which he wilted all Down in my arms  and fell back on the ground I on Top of him [p. [3]]

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Letter from Joseph Bosworth, 17 February 1834
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