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Covel, James

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Ca. 1770

1850 U.S. Census, Mortality Schedule, New York, New York Co., NY, 378, microfilm 1,415,128, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

–Feb. 1850.

1850 U.S. Census, Mortality Schedule, New York, New York Co., NY, 378, microfilm 1,415,128, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Preacher, doctor.

Stevens, Memorials of the Introduction of Methodism into the Eastern States, 119; Longworth, Longworth’s American Almanac [1822], 146; Longworth’s American Almanac [1827], 147.

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Stevens, Abel. Memorials of the Introduction of Methodism into the Eastern States: Comprising Biographical Notices of Its Early Preachers, Sketches of Its First Churches, and Reminiscences of Its Early Struggles and Successes. Boston: Charles H. Peirce, 1848.

Longworth, Thomas. Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory, for the Forty-Seventh Year of American Independence. Containing a List of Banks, Insurance Companies, Post-Office Establishments, &c. &c. New York: By the author, 1822.

Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory, for the Fifty-Second Year of American Independence. . . . New York: Thomas Longworth, 1827.

Likely born in Massachusetts.

Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusett, 2:101.

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Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. 4 vols. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1904.

From 1791–ca. 1797, served as Methodist itinerant preacher, first in Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, circuit; then in Otsego, Otsego Co., New York, circuit; Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, circuit; Marblehead, Essex Co., Massachusetts, circuit; and Lynn, Essex Co., circuit.

Stevens, Memorials of the Introduction of Methodism into the Eastern States, 119.

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Appointed a Methodist deacon, 1793.

Minutes of the Methodist Conferences, 122.

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Minutes of the Methodist Conferences, Annually Held in America; From 1773 to 1813, Inclusive. Volume the First. New York: Daniel Hitt and Thomas Ward, 1813.

Married Sarah Gould, 28 Oct. 1795, in Marblehead.

Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusettes, 2:101.

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Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. 4 vols. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1904.

Settled in Marblehead, by 1796.

Parks, Historical Sketch of Methodism, 186.

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Woodford, Robert J. “The Historical Development of the Doctrine and Covenants.” 3 vols. PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1974.

Appointed an elder in Methodist church, by 1797.

Minutes of the Annual Conferences, 73.

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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, For the Years 1773–1828. Volume 1. New York: T. Mason and G. Lane.

Moved to Maine, after 1800.

1800 U.S. Census, Marblehead, Essex Co., MA, 517; Jones, “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace,” 73.

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Jones, Christopher C. “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace: James Covel and the Historical Background of Doctrine and Covenants 39–40.” BYU Studies 51, no. 1 (2012): 66–98.

Moved to Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co., New York, 1808.

Jones, “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace,” 73; Dutchess Co., NY, Deed Records, 1718–1901, vol. 22, p. 46, 17 Nov. 1809, microfilm 565,028, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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Jones, Christopher C. “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace: James Covel and the Historical Background of Doctrine and Covenants 39–40.” BYU Studies 51, no. 1 (2012): 66–98.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Lived at Poughkeepsie until at least 1818.

Jones, “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace,” 75–77.

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Jones, Christopher C. “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace: James Covel and the Historical Background of Doctrine and Covenants 39–40.” BYU Studies 51, no. 1 (2012): 66–98.

Moved to New York City, by July 1822.

Dutchess Co., NY, Deed Records, 1718–1901, vol. 29, p. 14, microfilm 565,031, microfilm 565,031, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

With William Stilwell, he ordained first elders of African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 17 June 1822.

Rush and Collins, Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America, 84.

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Rush, Christopher, and George Collins. A Short Account of the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America. New York: By the authors, 1843.

A Communitarian; with William Stilwell and others, founded New York Society for Promoting Communities, ca. 1822.

Jones, “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace,” 80.

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Jones, Christopher C. “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace: James Covel and the Historical Background of Doctrine and Covenants 39–40.” BYU Studies 51, no. 1 (2012): 66–98.

Established medical practice and drugstore with his son, John C. Covel, in New York City.

Longworth’s American Almanac [1822], 147; Longworth’s American Almanac [1825], 134.

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Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory, for the Fiftieth Year of American Independence. . . . New York: Thomas Longworth, 1825.

Challenged Methodist establishment; presided over new Methodist Society meeting in New York City, 1826.

Jones, “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace,” 81.

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Jones, Christopher C. “Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace: James Covel and the Historical Background of Doctrine and Covenants 39–40.” BYU Studies 51, no. 1 (2012): 66–98.

Attended conferences of Methodist church in New York.

Minutes of the Annual Conferences, 269, 288, 304, 317, 321, 351, 390, 415, 441, 466, 564.

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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, For the Years 1773–1828. Volume 1. New York: T. Mason and G. Lane.

Resided in Canadice Township, Ontario Co., New York, 1830.

1830 U.S. Census, Canadice, Ontario Co., NY, 263.

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Elected president of Rochester Conference of Methodist Society, 13 Feb. 1830, in Ontario, Wayne Co., New York.

Drinkhouse, History of Methodist Reform, 241–242.

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Drinkhouse, Edward J. History of Methodist Reform Synoptical of General Methodism 1703–1898 with Special and Comprehensive Reference to Its Most Salient Exhibition in the History of the Methodist Protestant Church. Vol. 2. Board of Publication of the Methodist Protestant Church, 1899.

A Jan. 1831 revelation counseled Covel to be baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; soon after, Covel rejected command to be baptized.

Revelation, 5 Jan. 1831, in Doctrine and Covenants 59, 1835 ed. [D&C 39]; Revelation, 6 Jan. 1831, in Doctrine and Covenants 60, 1835 ed. [D&C 40].

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Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God. Compiled by Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835. Also available in Robin Scott Jensen, Richard E. Turley Jr., Riley M. Lorimer, eds., Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations. Vol. 2 of the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2011).

Died in New York City.

1850 U.S. Census, Mortality Schedule, New York, New York Co., NY, 378, microfilm 1,415,128, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

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