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| Edmund Bosley (1776–1846) |
| New York convert, church financier. |
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| Born |
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June 25, 1776 in Northumberland, Pennsylvania |
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¶ Ancestry.com |
| Died |
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December 15, 1846 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska |
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| Father |
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John P. Bosley, b. December 6, 1734 in
Baltimore Co., Maryland; d. 1798 in Geneseo, Livingston, New York |
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¶ Ancestry.com |
| Mother |
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Hannah Bull, b.1798 in Baltimore, Maryland; d. 1798 in Geneseo,
Livingston, New York |
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| Livonia, New York |
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1822–1830 lives in Livonia, 9 miles southeast of Avon in Livingston
County, New York. |
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PWJS, 661. |
| Avon, New York |
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From the time father Bosley located near Avon he found and ploughed up
axes and irons, and had sufficient to make his mill irons, and had always
abundance of iron on hand without purchasing. |
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¶ Heber
C. Kimball (h2) |
| David W. Patten throws man out |
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March [26], 1833 David W. Patten and Reynolds
Cahoon preach at Edmund
Bosley's "where there
was a man present who had disturbed several of our meetings, and would
not be civil or quiet; he had defied any man to put him out of the [408]
house or make him be still. I felt stirred up in spirit, … and seizing
him by the neck with one hand and by the seat of the breeches with my other
hand, I carried him to the door, and threw him about ten feet on to a pile
of wood, which quieted him for the time being. From this circumstance the
saying went out that David Patten had cast out one Devil, soul and body." |
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¶ David
W. Patten (h) |
| Kirtland |
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1833 moves [?] to Kirtland. |
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PWJS 2:528–529 |
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March 12, 1834 Joseph and party (raising money for Zion's Camp) arrive
at Edmund's home, apparently in Avon. On the 14th they are at Father Beman's
(in Livonia?). |
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TS 6, no. 16 (Nov. 1, 1845), 1027. |
| Fund-raising mission |
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March 17, 1834 at a conference of elders in Avon, Edmund
is called on a mission with Freeman Nickerson,
Elder McWithey, and Roger Orton to raise $2,000 "for the present relief
in Kirtland. They all agreed to do what they could to obtain it, firmly
believing it could be accomplished by the first of April." Present:
Joseph Smith, Sidney
Rigdon, Parley
Pratt (h), Lyman Wight (h), John Murdock, Orson
Pratt, Orson Hyde, and six others
(probably including Nickerson, McWithey, and Orton, Henry Brown, who
are called on missions). Joseph, Sidney, and Lyman will return to
Kirtland. Joseph stays at Edmunds on the 16th. |
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TS 6, no. 16 (Nov. 1, 1845), 1027. |
| Sugar orchard |
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[Lyman Wight] … while at Father Bosley’s in his sugar orchard in 1834 he [Joseph Smith] thare <blessed and> ordained <me> to the office of Baneemy. |
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Lyman Wight letter, 3.
¶ D&C 103:16, Feb. 24, 1834. |
| Supports Joseph |
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August 28, 1834 concurs with testimony of Reynolds
Cahoon that "Joseph
Smith conducted himself properly on the journey to and from Missouri." [Edmund
is not listed in the History of the Church's "full list of those
who went up to Zion."] |
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Minutes of Aug. 28, 1834
HC 2:183–185. |
| Covenants to consecrate |
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[September 4, 1834] This day Edward [Edmund] Bosley said
that if he could obtain the management of his property in one year he
would put it in for the printing of the word of the Lord. |
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Diary-1, 86 // PWJS,
47.
put it in: consecrate it, HC 2:161. |
| Works on House of the Lord |
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March 7, 1835 blessed with ownership rights to the House of the Lord
for his work on the structure and called on a mission preach to "the sectarian
priests of this age." |
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¶ Minutes of March
7–8, 1835 |
| Excommunication |
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July 14, 1835 excommunicated by the council of all six Church presidents—O.
Cowdery, D. Whitmer, W.
W. Phelps, F. G. Williams, and J. Smith Jr.—for
covenant breaking. |
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Minutes of July
14, 1835 |
| Sells land to Joseph |
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October 3, 1835 sells 4 acres in Kirtland to Joseph Smith for $400. |
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Kirtland economy, 71. |
| High
council |
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October 29, 1835 high council meets at Edmund's home in Kirtland. |
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¶ Minutes
of Oct. 29, 1835 |
| Anointing |
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January 28, 1836 one of twenty-four elders anointed by quorum president
Alvah Beman in the House of the Lord. |
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Kirtland Elders Quorum Record,
4. |
| Kirtland Safety
Society |
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January 2, 1837 signs new Articles of Agreement for Kirtland Safety Society. |
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MA 3, no. 6 (Mar. 1837): 477. |
| Purchases 3000 shares |
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Purchases 3,000 shares of Safety Society stock for $100—the
same number and amount as Joseph Smith and John Johnson. According to one
source, Sidney Rigdon paid (subscribed?) $751.64 for his 3,000 shares;
though another source reports he
paid $12 on 2,000 shares in October and a total of $818.00 more by mid-November,
which included another 1,000 shares. These four were the largest stockholders. |
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Kirtland economy, 476, 79.
Safety Society ledger, 427–428. |
| Elder's quorum presidency |
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November 29, 1837 ordained second counselor to Reuben Hedlock in elders
quorum. |
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Kirtland Elders Quorum Record, 35. |
| Missouri |
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1838 living in Missouri. |
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PWJS 258–259. |
| Illinois |
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1839 moves to Illinois. |
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PWJS 258–259. |
| Damages |
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May 7, 1839 signs affidavit in Adams County,
Illinois suing for $2,400 in damages incurred as the result of Governor
Bogg's extermination order in Missouri: |
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Redress petitions, 144. |
| Mission to New York |
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April 6, 1843 called on a mission to Genessee, Livingston Co., New York
with Rodman Clark. |
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TS 4, no. 10 (Apr. 1, 1843):
158. |
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Family |
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| Wife |
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Ann Kelly, b. Oct. 29, 1778 in Pennsylvania. |
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¶ Ancestry.com |
| Children |
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Joshua, b. 1800
Daniel, b. Jan. 9, 1805 in Geneseo, Livingston, NY
Mary Ann, b. Apr. 3, 1816 in Elmira, Tioga, NY
William Bull, b. June 13, 1818 in Livonia, Livingston, NY |
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