Footnotes
Revelation, 4 Feb. 1831 [D&C 41].
Knight, Autobiography and Journal, 29–30; Revelation, 10 June 1831 [D&C 54:7–8]; see also Historical Introductions to Revelation, 20 May 1831 [D&C 51]; and to Revelation, 10 June 1831 [D&C 54].
Knight, Newel. Autobiography and Journal, ca. 1846. CHL. MS 767.
Coltrin, Diary and Notebook, 3 Aug., 1 Oct.–12 Nov., and 20–23 Nov. 1832; “Extracts of Letters from the Elders Abroad,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Feb. 1833, [5]–[6].
Coltrin, Zebedee. Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
Coltrin, Diary and Notebook, 13 Oct. 1832; 1830 U.S. Census, Madison, Geauga Co., OH, 192.
Coltrin, Zebedee. Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Minute Book 1, 4 Feb. 1833. Gee’s elder’s license, signed by Frederick G. Williams, explained that he had been “ordained an Elder under the hand of Sidney Rigdon according to the articles and covenants of this church on the fourth day of February AD 1833.” (Elder’s License for Salmon Gee, 4 Feb. 1833, Lysander Gee, Papers, CHL.)
Minute Book 1 / “Conference A,” 1832–1837. CHL. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.
Gee, Lysander. Papers, 1833–1902. CHL. MS 16233.
For examples of behavior that had been deemed inappropriate by JS, see Historical Introduction to Revelation, 9 May 1831 [D&C 50]; see also Letter to Hyrum Smith, 3–4 Mar. 1831; Revelation, ca. 8 Mar. 1831–A [D&C 46]; and Revelation, 9 May 1831 [D&C 50].
Murdock explained that he had been able “to speak the praises of God and the mysteries of the kingdom in other tonges according to promise and this without throwing me down or wallowing me on the ground or any thing unbecoming or immoral . . . so that I know that those odd actions and strange noises is not caused by the spirit of the Lord as is represented by brothe[r] King therefore in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by the spirit of the Living God, according to the authority of the holy Priesthood commited to me I command Brother Thomas King (as though I were present) to cease from your diabolical acts of in thusiasm and also from acting as an Elder . . . [and] to submit and let brother Gee be upheld by the prayer of faith of every brother & sister and if there be this union of spirit & prayer of faith, evry false spirit shall be bound and cast out from among you.” (John Murdock, Kirtland, OH, to Salmon Gee, Thompson, OH, 11 Feb. 1833, in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 26–27.)
JS Letterbook 1 / Smith, Joseph. “Letter Book A,” 1832–1835. Joseph Smith Collection. CHL. MS 155, box 2, fd. 1.
Minute Book 1, 2 Feb. 1833.
Minute Book 1 / “Conference A,” 1832–1837. CHL. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.
See Colossians 1:9.
See 2 Peter 3:18.
See Hebrews 13:1.
See 1 Peter 4:7.
See Romans 12:21.
See Hebrews 12:14; and Romans 14:19.
See Matthew 5:45; and Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 481 [3 Nephi 12:45].
See Romans 14:13.
See Acts 13:2.
See, for example, Romans 16:24; Philippians 4:23; and Revelation 22:21.
Williams had been JS’s counselor since 5 January 1833. Rigdon had been a counselor since 8 March 1832. (See Revelation, 5 Jan. 1833; and Note, 8 Mar. 1832.)