History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2Smith, Joseph, Jr.
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History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
_March 8th_.--Met pursuant to adjournment. Evan M. Greene, Levi
Osgood, Alpheus Harmon, Joseph C. Kingsbury, Ira Bond, Z. H.
Brewster, Samuel Tompkins, John Ormsby, Luman Carter, John Smith,
Samuel H. Smith, Thomas Fisher, Starry Fisk, Amos R. Orton and
Almon Sherman were blessed. Amos R. Orton was ordained an Elder and
a missionary to the Lamanites. Andrew H. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey,
Sebe Ives, Ebenezer Jennings, Oliver Granger, Orson Johnson,
Warren Smith, James Lake, and William Redfield were blessed, and
William Redfield was ordained an Elder. Cyrus Lake, {208} Harvey
Smith, Isaac Cleveland, William Baker, Samuel S. Brannan, John
Wheeler, Henry Baker, William Fisk, Henry Wilcox, George W. Gee,
David Clough, and Lorenzo D. Young were blessed, and Elder Young
was set apart as a missionary to the Lamanites. Jas. Durfee,
Jos. Coe, Thos. Gates, Loren Babbitt, Blake Baldwin, and Jos. B.
Baldwin were blessed. John Johnson, John Tanner and Gad Yale were
blessed; and Gad Yale, being one who went to the relief of the
brethren in Missouri, was blessed accordingly. Henry G. Sherwood,
Sidney Tanner, Joseph H. Tippits, Robert Quigley, and Erastus
Babbitt were blessed, and Samuel Canfield was blessed and ordained
an Elder. Phineas H. Young, Samuel Rolfe, and Calvin H. Stoddard
were blessed, and Elder Young was ordained a missionary to the
Lamanites. Erastus Rudd, Josiah Fuller, Isaac H. Bishop, Roswell
Murray, Benjamin Wells, Nehemiah Harman, Thomas Hancock, Oliver
Wetherby, Joshua Grant, Jun., William Draper, Jun., Ransom Van
Leuven, Tunis Rappellee, John Rudd, and Samuel Wilcox were blessed.
Moses Martin, who went to Missouri, was set apart to be one of the
Seventies, and blessed and warned as follows: "If thou art not
purified, thou wilt not be able to execute thy commission. Thou
wilt fall into the snares and into the hands of enemies who will
take thy life; thou must begin to make a complete reformation in
thyself."
Oliver Cowdery,
Clerk.
The following belong to the Seventies, but the date of their
ordinations is not definitely known: Milo Andrus, Joseph
Winchester, Zerubbabel Snow, Heman T. Hyde, Henry Brown. Nelson
Higgins, (Hezekiah Fisk was blessed, but was not one of the
Seventies,) Henry Beaman, Jesse Huntsman, Royal Barney, Zebedee
Coltrin, Henry Herriman, and Lorenzo D. Barnes. James L. Thompson
was blessed, but not ordained.
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