Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 3, 6 May 1845–13 January 1846

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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 3, 6 May 1845–13 January 1846
6 May 1845 • Tuesday, continued Page 1 10 May 1845 • Saturday Page 4 9 September 1845 • Tuesday Page 13 30 September 1845 • Tuesday Page 33 4 October 1845 • Saturday Page 42 11 January 1846 • Sunday Page 85 13 January 1846 • Tuesday Page 109
Source Note
See source note under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
Historical Introduction
See historical introduction under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
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what is right, he will warrant that every man will come out right and we shall triump over our enemies.

164
This paragraph and the following paragraph summarize detailed information that is tabulated in Clayton’s rough notes of the meeting.
Of the 25 companies of 100 families each now organizing, 20 companies by their captains made report, the sum total of said reports are as follows

916 Horses, 639 Wagons, 18 Buggs [buggies], 227 Yoke of Oxen 251 Cows, 54 men and Guns, and 70 teams ready to start at one hours notice.
165
A report of this meeting in the Record of Seventies summarized, “This day a council was held in the House of the Lord, for the purpose of inquiring as to who had the means, and where [were] prepared to go West immediately, if worst comes to worst. The Captains of Fifties, and tens were questioned on this matter and made their report. They reported Seventy span of horses an[d] seventy waggons ready for immediate service.” (Record of Seventies, bk. B, 13 Jan. 1846.)
Comprehensive Works Cited
Record of Seventies / First Council of the Seventy. “General Record of the Seventies Book B. Commencing Nauvoo 1844,” 1844–1848. Bk. B. In First Council of the Seventy, Records, 1837–1885. CHL. CR 3 51, box 2, fd. 1.

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H[eber] C. Kimball
14 June 1801–22 June 1868. Blacksmith, potter. Born at Sheldon, Franklin Co., Vermont. Son of Solomon Farnham Kimball and Anna Spaulding. Married Vilate Murray, 22 Nov. 1822, at Mendon, Monroe Co., New York. Member of Baptist church at Mendon, 1831. Baptized...
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arose to make some remarks concerning men and women teaching rediculous doctrines, saying that a woman cannot get an endowmant without a man, nor a man without a woman &c.
166
As Kimball here implies, unmarried individuals participated in temple endowment ceremonies in Nauvoo. See, for example, the cases of sixteen-year-old Eunice Billings and nineteen-year-old Zadoc Judd. (“A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Sept. 1910, 39:22; Kimball, Journal, 3 Jan. 1846; Judd, Autobiography of Zadoc Knapp Judd, 20; Record of Seventies, bk. B, 23 Jan. 1846.)
Comprehensive Works Cited
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
Kimball, Heber C. Journal, Nov. 1845–Jan. 1846. CHL.
Judd, Zadoc Knapp. Autobiography of Zadoc Knapp Judd (1827–1909). [Provo, UT]: Brigham Young University Library, 1954. Copy at CHL. MS 4545.

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1 June 1801–29 Aug. 1877. Carpenter, painter, glazier, colonizer. Born at Whitingham, Windham Co., Vermont. Son of John Young and Abigail (Nabby) Howe. Brought up in Methodist household; later joined Methodist church. Moved to Sherburne, Chenango Co., New...
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proposed to the capns. of 100s & 50s. to use their influence to have as few women and children as possible, go with the first company, but let us go and prepare a place for them, so that they can follow in the spring, bringing their cows and other things to make themselves comfortable.

He shall want all those men who are in danger [p. [112]]
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Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 3, 6 May 1845–13 January 1846
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[164]
This paragraph and the following paragraph summarize detailed information that is tabulated in Clayton’s rough notes of the meeting.
[165]
A report of this meeting in the Record of Seventies summarized, “This day a council was held in the House of the Lord, for the purpose of inquiring as to who had the means, and where [were] prepared to go West immediately, if worst comes to worst. The Captains of Fifties, and tens were questioned on this matter and made their report. They reported Seventy span of horses an[d] seventy waggons ready for immediate service.” (Record of Seventies, bk. B, 13 Jan. 1846.)
[166]
As Kimball here implies, unmarried individuals participated in temple endowment ceremonies in Nauvoo. See, for example, the cases of sixteen-year-old Eunice Billings and nineteen-year-old Zadoc Judd. (“A Sketch of the Life of Eunice Billings Snow,” Woman’s Exponent, Sept. 1910, 39:22; Kimball, Journal, 3 Jan. 1846; Judd, Autobiography of Zadoc Knapp Judd, 20; Record of Seventies, bk. B, 23 Jan. 1846.)
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
Kimball, Heber C. Journal, Nov. 1845–Jan. 1846. CHL.
Judd, Zadoc Knapp. Autobiography of Zadoc Knapp Judd (1827–1909). [Provo, UT]: Brigham Young University Library, 1954. Copy at CHL. MS 4545.