Footnotes
Revelation, Sept. 1830–A [D&C 29:8].
Revelation, Sept. 1830–B [D&C 28:9].
Prior to Rigdon’s arrival, Oliver Cowdery, John Whitmer, and Emma Smith served as scribes for this project. For more on JS’s Bible revision, see the Historical Introduction to Visions of Moses, June 1830 [Moses 1].
“Testimony of Brother E. Thayre,” True Latter Day Saints’ Herald, Oct. 1862, 82–83; Tucker, Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism, 76–79; Whitmer, History, 9–10; see also Austin, Life among the Mormons, 37; Mather, “Early Days of Mormonism,” 204; and Waterloo, NY, 26 Jan. [1831], Letter to the Editor, Reflector (Palmyra, NY), 1 Feb. 1831, 95. The two also stopped in Harmony, Pennsylvania. (Knight, Reminiscences, 8.)
Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.
Tucker, Pomeroy. Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism: Biography of Its Founders and History of Its Church. New York: D. Appleton, 1867.
Austin, Emily M. Mormonism; or, Life among the Mormons: Being an Autobiographical Sketch, Including an Experience of Fourteen Years of Mormon Life. Madison, WI: M. J. Cantwell, 1882.
Mather, Frederic G. “The Early Days of Mormonism.” Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science 26 (Aug. 1880): 198–211.
Reflector. Palmyra, NY. 1821–1831.
Knight, Joseph, Sr. Reminiscences, no date. CHL. MS 3470.
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John Whitmer likely created this heading when he copied the text into Revelation Book 1.
Members of the church in New York, especially in Colesville, had been frequently harassed during the previous six months. (JS History, vol. A-1, 42–48, 53; see also Letter to the Church in Colesville, 2 Dec. 1830.)
Newel Knight later recalled that at this time “the Spirit was being poured out copiously upon the Saints at Colesville, and a spirit of deep inquiry was manifesting itself, the Saints gave themselves to the study of the Scriptures, and in much prayer and supplication sought to understand them, and to more perfectly comprehend their import, and the revelations as given through the Prophet Joseph.” (Knight, History, 228–229.)
Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.
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