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Letter from Sidney Rigdon, 3 April 1840
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with, we
are therefore left to bear the loss without redress at present
Judge Higbee is on the way home, and has been for ten days, he obtained money
from Judge Young, to what amount I cannot say, but he will be able to tell you when he
gets home— The Judge continues his friendship, and is ready, to accommodate with
money, whenever called for— Shurely he is a friend indeed, and ought never to be
forgotten. I am up to this time with out means to get home; but I have no uneasin ess abo[u]t
it. I shall doubtless get means as soon as my health will admit of my going.
23 Oct. 1795–8 June 1843. Clerk, judge, surveyor. Born at Galloway, Gloucester Co., New Jersey. Son of Isaac Higbee and Sophia Somers. Moved to Clermont Co., Ohio, 1803. Married Sarah Elizabeth Ward, 10 Sept. 1818, in Tate Township, Clermont Co. Lived at ...
View Full BioMy health is slowly improving, and I, think if I have no relaps, I will be able to
leave for home some time in the month of May. I have not had a chill for about four
weeks, my appetite is quite good, and my food sits well on my stomach, and digests well,
but there are the remains, by spells, of that foulness of stoma ch, which has troubled me so
much; and those morbid sensations, which were the cause the cause of it, my feet and
legs swell every afternoon, con siderably. There is a great excitement got up here by A[lmon]
Babbitt about going to Kirtland, a number from Phild are going immediately. Now it is
my opinion that this is an unwise movement: large purchases have been made there for
the Saints, and if they should fail to purchase, it will leave us in difficulty. Grate
complaints are made and making against br. [Oliver] Granger in Kirtland, about his getting
drunk. It is said that he and Oliver Cowd[e]ry took a real drunken scrape together, and that
he went into the Pulpit and preached, when he was so drunk, that he could scarcely stand:
these reports come from defferent persons, and I suspect they are true; and they ought not
to go unreproved.
9 Oct. 1812–Sept. 1856. Postmaster, editor, attorney. Born at Cheshire, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Son of Ira Babbitt and Nancy Crosier. Baptized into LDS church, ca. 1830. Located in Amherst, Lorain Co., Ohio, July 1831. Served mission to New York, fall...
View Full BioLocated 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 InfoPort city founded as Quaker settlement by William Penn, 1681. Site of signing of Declaration of Independence and drafting of U.S. Constitution. Nation’s capital city, 1790–1800. Population in 1830 about 170,000; in 1840 about 260,000; and in 1850 about 410...
More Info7 Feb. 1794–23/25 Aug. 1841. Sheriff, church agent. Born at Phelps, Ontario Co., New York. Son of Pierce Granger and Clarissa Trumble. Married Lydia Dibble, 8 Sept. 1813, at Phelps. Member of Methodist church and licensed exhorter. Sheriff of Ontario Co. ...
View Full BioLocated 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 Info3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...
View Full BioI wish you would say to my family, that on yesterday I had a letter from George
[W.] Robinson, dated [p. 126]
14 May 1814–10 Feb. 1878. Clerk, postmaster, merchant, clothier, banker. Born at Pawlet, Rutland Co., Vermont. Baptized into LDS church and moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, by 1836. Clerk and recorder for Kirtland high council, beginning Jan. 1836. Married...
View Full BioSidney Rigdon, letter, NJ, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 3 Apr. 1840; handwriting of Howard Coray; in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 125–127; JS Collection, CHL.
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...
View Full BioPrincipal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, LDS church purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas. Served as church headquarters, 1839...
More Info6 May 1817–16 Jan. 1908. Bookkeeper, clerk, teacher, farmer. Born in Dansville, Steuben Co., New York. Son of Silas Coray and Mary Stephens. Moved to Providence, Luzerne Co., Pennsylvania, ca. 1827; to Williams, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania, by 1830; and...
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