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Minutes, 1–2 November 1831

 
During the first half of November 1831, JS held a series of council meetings in Hiram

Area settled by immigrants from Pennsylvania and New England, ca. 1802. Located in northeastern Ohio about twenty-five miles southeast of Kirtland. Population in 1830 about 500. Population in 1840 about 1,100. JS lived in township at home of John and Alice...

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, Ohio, at which the primary business was planning the publication of a compilation of revelations. Such a compilation, now known as Revelation Book 1, already existed in a manuscript called “The Book of Commandments and Revelations.” The November 1831 meetings focused on setting the publication project in motion.
The minutes of the conference held on 1–2 November 1831 recorded the decision to print 10,000 copies (later reduced to 3,000) of what was to be called the Book of Commandments. During the meetings, JS solicited a “testimony” from the elders present to accompany the volume.
This text appears in Minute Book 2, copied into that record book by Ebenezer Robinson

25 May 1816–11 Mar. 1891. Printer, editor, publisher. Born at Floyd (near Rome), Oneida Co., New York. Son of Nathan Robinson and Mary Brown. Moved to Utica, Oneida Co., ca. 1831, and learned printing trade at Utica Observer. Moved to Ravenna, Portage Co....

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 in spring 1838. He apparently copied this document from minutes taken at the time of the conference in November 1831.

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Minutes, 1–2 November 1831
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