Footnotes
See Historical Introduction to Revelation, 1 Dec. 1831 [D&C 71].
Ambrose Palmer, 28 Jan. 1835, Letter to the Editor, LDS Messenger and Advocate, Jan. 1835, 1:62; “Progress of the Church of Christ,” The Evening and the Morning Star, June 1833, 100.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
The branch comprised ninety-three members by January 1835 and one hundred members by 6 June 1835. (Ambrose Palmer, 28 Jan. 1835, Letter to the Editor, LDS Messenger and Advocate, Jan. 1835, 1:62; Minute Book 1, 6–7 June 1835.)
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
See Minute Book 1, 8 Sept. 1834; 18 Nov. 1835; 10 June 1836.
It is unclear who was contemplating having Rigdon move to New Portage, Medina County, or why. One church member living in Medina County singled out Rigdon as the missionary “who opened the scriptures to our understanding in that clear light in which we had never before understood them.” Rigdon had also successfully presided over a council held in nearby Norton, Ohio, that settled a local controversy. JS’s later history explicitly linked the decision to keep Rigdon in Kirtland with the recital of “the proceedings of a former Conference” mentioned in the minutes here. The history states, “It had been suggested that Elder Rigdon might remove from Kirtland to New Portage, but after listening to the proceedings of a previous conference, in Portage, . . . it was decided that Elder Rigdon should not remove.” (Ambrose Palmer, 28 Jan. 1835, Letter to the Editor, LDS Messenger and Advocate, Jan. 1835, 1:62; Minutes, 2 May 1833; JS History, vol. A-1, 424.)
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
The effort to enlist the help of church members to build the House of the Lord in Kirtland began on 4 May 1833, when a conference of high priests appointed Hyrum Smith, Jared Carter, and Reynolds Cahoon as a committee to oversee the collection of funds for constructing the building. One month later, on 1 June 1833, the committee issued a circular to branches of the church advising them how to collect funds from its members. (Minutes, 4 May 1833; Hyrum Smith et al., Kirtland, OH, to “the Churches of Christ,” 1 June 1833, in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 36–38.)
A revelation dated 2 January 1831 directed members of the Church of Christ living in New York to move to Ohio, where they would be “endowed with power from on high” preparatory to engaging in “a great work . . . among all Nations.” A later revelation associated this endowment of power with the House of the Lord in Kirtland. (Revelation, 2 Jan. 1831 [D&C 38:32–33]; Revelation, 1 June 1833 [D&C 95:8]; see also Revelation, Feb. 1831–A [D&C 43:16].)