Footnotes
Taylor, Heavens Are No Longer as Brass over Our Heads, 13; “The Gathering,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Nov. 1832, [6].
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.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
John S. Carter, Journal, 26 May 1833; Taylor, Heavens Are No Longer as Brass over Our Heads, 4.
Carter, John S. Journal, 1831–1833. CHL. MS 1440.
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.
Lyman, Journal, 26 Mar. and 7 Apr. 1834. The money for “papers” was probably for subscriptions to The Evening and the Morning Star; the money “for Revelaton” may have been for copies of a December 1833 revelation that had been printed as a broadsheet. According to Eber D. Howe, editor of the Painesville Telegraph, the revelation was taken to the “congregations” of the church, some of which paid “one dollar per copy” for it. (Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, 155.)
Lyman, Amasa. Journals, 1832–1877. Amasa Lyman Collection, 1832–1877. CHL. MS 829, boxes 1–3.
Howe, Eber D. Mormonism Unvailed: Or, A Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion, from Its Rise to the Present Time. With Sketches of the Characters of Its Propagators, and a Full Detail of the Manner in Which the Famous Golden Bible Was Brought before the World. To Which Are Added, Inquiries into the Probability That the Historical Part of the Said Bible Was Written by One Solomon Spalding, More Than Twenty Years Ago, and by Him Intended to Have Been Published as a Romance. Painesville, OH: By the author, 1834.
Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:72–73]; see also Revelation, 24 Feb. 1834 [D&C 103:23]; and Revelation, 22 June 1834 [D&C 105:27–29].
Revelation, 22 June 1834 [D&C 105:8].
Ames, Autobiography, 1834, [10]. At least one payment of $1,500 for the land was due in April 1835, and it is possible that another $1,500 payment, due in April 1834, had not yet been made. (Geauga Co., OH, Deed Records, 1795–1921, vol. 17, pp. 38–39, 10 Apr. 1833, microfilm 20,237, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; see also Revelation, 4 June 1833 [D&C 96:2]; and Geauga Co., OH, Deed Records, 1795–1921, vol. 17, pp. 359–361, 17 June 1833, microfilm 20,237, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
Ames, Ira. Autobiography and Journal, 1858. CHL. MS 6055.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Covenant, 29 Nov. 1834; JS, Journal, 29 Nov. 1834.
Tippets, Autobiography, 25.
Tippets, John Harvey. Autobiography, ca. 1882. Photocopy. CHL. MS 5668.
| Joseph Smith Junr.) | Presiding |
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| The amount in other property according to their said letter, is—— | —375.11 |
| aggregate | $.848.40 |
John Tippets later remembered that the council—which he mistakenly recalled as taking place on 9 December 1834—occurred “at candle lite.” (Tippets, Autobiography, 16–18.)
Tippets, John Harvey. Autobiography, ca. 1882. Photocopy. CHL. MS 5668.
Revised Minutes, 18–19 Feb. 1834 [D&C 102:2].
The Kirtland high council could function as long as at least seven of the twelve counselors were present. (Revised Minutes, 18–19 Feb. 1834 [D&C 102:6].)
Only two counselors were to speak when the high council dealt with an issue that was not considered difficult. (Revised Minutes, 18–19 Feb. 1834 [D&C 102:13].)
According to John Tippets, he, Joseph, and Caroline stayed in Kirtland “thro[u]gh the winter spring and sumer” and “obtaind a greate deal of good in struction.” In September 1835, they departed for Missouri, accompanied by John’s brother William, who had been a member of the Camp of Israel and who married Caroline. (Tippets, Autobiography, 20–22; JS, Journal, 23 Sept. 1835.)
Tippets, John Harvey. Autobiography, ca. 1882. Photocopy. CHL. MS 5668.