Glimpse of Past – LDS Church History Nov 4-10

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November 6, 1832 (Tuesday) – Joseph Smith returned home from a rapid journey to Albany, New York and Boston. On the day of his return his son Joseph was born. November 5, 1833 (Tuesday) – Col. Thos. Pitcher, commanding the mob militia, in Jackson County, demanded that the Saints should give up their arms, which order was reluctantly complied with. During the following night and the next day the mob drove the Saints from their homes at the point of the bayonet. The exiles were thereby exposed to the most severe sufferings from cold and hunger. November 7, 1833 (Thursday) – On this and the following day the exiled Saints were busy crossing the Missouri river from Jackson to Clay County, Mo., where the inhabitants received them with some degree of kindness. November 9, 1856 (Sunday) – Capt. James G. Willie’s handcart company arrived in G.S.L. City, after great sufferings from scarcity of provisions, cold and over-exertion in the mountains. It left Iowa City, Iowa, July 15th, with 120 handcarts and six wagons, numbering about five hundred souls, of whom 66 died on the journey. Captain Abraham O. Smoot’s wagon train arrived the same...

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Glimpse of Past – LDS Church History Nov 1-3

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November 1, 1808 (Tuesday) – John Taylor was born in Milnthorpe, Westmoreland, England. November 2, 1836 (Wednesday) – Preparations were made for organizing a banking institution at Kirtland, O., to be called the “Kirtland Safety Society.” November 1, 1838 (Thursday)- Hyrum Smith and Amasa M. Lyman were brought as prisoners into camp. A court martial was held, and the prisoners were sentenced to be shot the following morning; they were, however, saved through the interference of General Doniphan. November 2, 1838 (Friday)- Joseph Smith, jun., and fellow-prisoners were taken to Far West under a strong guard and permitted to see their families, from whom they then were rudely torn and started under a strong guard, commanded by Generals Samuel D. Lucas and Robert Wilson, for Independence, Jackson Co., where they arrived on the 4th. November 1846– A memorial to the Queen of England “for the relief, by emigration, of a portion of her poor subjects,” was circulated for signatures among the British Saints. November 1847– Capt. James Brown returned to G.S.L. Valley from a visit to California, bringing about $5,000 in...

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