Sometime between 20 October and 1 November 1839, , the clerk of a meeting of the in , Illinois, prepared this recommendation for JS. The timing and content of the recommendation strongly suggest that it was produced in support of JS’s trip to , where he and other appointed church members planned to petition the federal government for redress for property losses church members sustained in . According to the recommendation, the Quincy branch voted unanimously at a 20 October 1839 meeting to sustain JS as the “” of the church. Sloan then drafted the recommendation sometime before 1 November, when JS and his travel companions left Quincy for Washington DC. JS likely carried the recommendation—signed by Sloan and the meeting’s presiding elder, —with him to Washington and submitted it to Congress with other documents pertaining to the church’s petition for reparations.