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| Acton / Middlesex |
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Nov. 1, 1799 |
Thomas B. Marsh |
Birthplace. |
Thomas B. Marsh (h) |
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| Barre / Worcester |
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Sept. 17, 1794 |
John Corrill |
Birthplace. |
John Corrill |
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| Bedford
/ Bristol |
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Aug. 9, 1835 |
Nine of the "traveling High
Council" (the Twelve) |
Organize the Massachusetts Conference
(coterminous with commonwealth boundaries). |
HC 2:139. |
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| Boston
/ Suffolk |
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[1822–1829] |
Thomas B. Marsh |
"… engaged in a type
foundry … seven years …" Tries to be a Methodist for 2 years,
then Quietist. |
Thomas
B. Marsh (h) |
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June–October 1832 |
Orson Hyde, Samuel H. Smith |
Baptize, organize branch of 25 or 30. Also baptize
in Lynn, members added to Boston branch. Niles Register reports 15 are
baptized in Boston "some of whom are respectable persons … Certain
of these converts have cast considerable sums of money into the stock,
and all were about to depart for the 'promised land,' in Jackson
county, Missouri." |
¶ Orson
Hyde (h)
Niles Register, Sept. 8, 1832. Source |
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August 1836 |
Joseph and Hyrum
Smith, Sidney Rigden, Oliver Cowdery |
Spend about a month in the area. |
¶ Oliver
Cowdery |
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May [11], 1838 |
Wilford Woodruff, A. P. Rockwood |
Wilford visits Albert P. Rockwood in "Cambridgeport"
jail ("religious persecution"), speaks at Sister Vose's in
Boston (9 Myrtle Street), spends the night with Elder Ball and his Mother
(12 Butoph Street). |
¶ Wilford
Woodruff (h3); WWJ 1:246, 248. |
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May 14, 1838 |
Wilford Woodruff |
Walks from Boston to Holliston
(30 mi.), stayed at Deacon Haven's. Next day walks to Providence. |
¶ Wilford
Woodruff (h3) |
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Sept. 9, 1843 |
The Twelve |
Conference in Boylston Hall.
See Georgetown entry, this date. |
¶ Milton
Holmes |
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Oct. 14, 1844 |
Wilford Woodruff |
"I spent
the night at Br Phelps, And dreamed of being in the midst of rattle snakes.
I had power to kill them. A few nights previous I saw a monster of a serpent.
Tried to kill me but had no power." |
WWJ 2:474. |
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| Bradford
/ Essex |
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1811 |
|
Birthplace of John F. Boynton. |
¶ John
F. Boynton (h) |
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Spring 1832 |
Orson Hyde, Samuel H. Smith |
Organize branch. |
¶ Orson
Hyde |
| |
Aug. 7, 1835 |
The Twelve |
Conference (scheduled). |
¶ Minutes
of March 12, 1835
¶ Heber C. Kimball (h3) |
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Early May 1838 |
Wilford Woodruff,
Milton Holmes, James Townsend |
Arrive Bradford, Wilford continues
to Boston, Milton and James remain in Bradford. |
¶ Wilford
Woodruff (h3) |
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| Charlestown / Essex |
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Sept. 1830 |
Thomas B. Marsh |
Moves from Charlestown, Massachusetts
to Palmyra, New York. |
¶ Thomas
B. Marsh (h) |
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| Cummington [part of Springfield]
/ Hampshire |
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[July-Sept.] 1835 |
Noah Packard |
Organizes branch and ordains 2 teachers, then returns to home (Parkman). |
¶ Noah
Packard |
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| Dayton
/ Cattaraugus |
| |
April 1833 |
Zerubbabel Snow,
Freeman Nickerson |
Zerubbabel baptizes Freeman. |
Freeman
Nickerson |
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| Georgetown
(New Rowley until 1838) / Essex |
| |
May 8, 1838 |
Wilford Woodruff, Nathaniel Holmes |
"From [Newberryport] thence to Georgetown formerly
New Rowley Essex County Mass & spent the night at father Nathaniel Holmes.
35 m." |
WWJ 1:245. |
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By July 1838 |
Nathaniel Holmes |
Presides. |
Leaves, 38; WWJ
2:245. |
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Oct. 6, 1838 |
Wilford Woodruff,
Milton Holmes |
Arrives with Fox Islands Saints
enroute to Kirtland. Milton and family, Nathaniel
Thomas, and James Townsend join them. |
¶ Milton
Holmes |
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Sept. 9, 1843 |
The Twelve |
Boston conference. Elder Bryant
reports "not much spirit of gathering" among the 30
members of the Georgetown branch. E. Snow remarks little wonder "when
their Presiding Elder Nathaniel Holmes & his Son Elder Milton Holmes
has setteled down with the Church manifesting No disposition to gather
themselves. It was no wonder the Church had not the spirit of it." |
¶ Milton
Holmes |
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| Hopkinton
/ Middlesex |
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June 24, 1804 |
Willard Richards (h) |
Birthplace. |
. |
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| Lowell
/ Middlesex |
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Oct. 15, 1844 |
Wilford Woodruff |
Meets with Lowell branch. "It was rather
a squally time. Difficulties appear to be rising in this quarter. Some
dissatisfaction." |
WWJ 2:474. |
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| Lynn / Essex |
| |
Sept. 1832 |
|
Two missionaries convert 5
in Lynn and 15 in Lynn. (Members joined to Boston branch.) |
Niles Register (Baltimore),
Sept. 8, 1832 |
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| Pittsfield / Berkshire |
| |
Aug. 27, 1793 |
Edward Partridge |
Born. |
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| Plainfield
[16 mi. northwest of Chesterfield] / Hampshire |
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Summer
1833 |
Noah Packard |
Preaches several times without
success. |
¶ Noah
Packard |
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Late summer
1835 |
Noah Packard |
"Whilst addressing a public congregation at Plainfield, …violent hands were laid upon me by wicked and ungodly men, and this for the truth's sake. I however succeeded in establishing the standard of the everlasting gospel, in that place. I baptized three, and left many inclined to receive the truth." |
MA 2, no. 1 (Oct. 1835), 208. |
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| Quincy / Essex |
| |
May 6, 1839 |
Milton Holmes |
High council authorizes Milton
Holmes and other seventies to accompany the Twelve to England. |
¶ Milton
Holmes |
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| Richmond / Berkshire |
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1813 |
Willard Richards |
Family moves to Richmond from Hopkinton when Willard is about 9. |
Willard Richards (h) |
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| Rowley / Essex |
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1811 |
Milton Holmes |
Birthplace. |
¶ Milton
Holmes |
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| Salem
/ Essex |
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August 6, 1836 |
Joseph, Hyrum,
Sidney, Oliver |
Joseph receives revelation in
Salem. Gold, silver, treasure to be found. |
D&C 111 |
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| South
Dennis / Barnstable |
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Feb. 5, 1778/1779 |
Freeman Nickerson |
Birthplace. |
Freeman Nickerson |
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| Springfield / Hampden |
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April 7, 1803 |
Levi Hancock |
Birthplace. |
Levi Hancock |
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| Yarmouth / Barnstable |
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|
Freeman Nickerson |
"Since I arrived at Cape Cod, I have held 24
public meetings; the people have been very attentive. I have held two meetings
in a Methodist house one in the courthouse, two in a hall and the remainder
in a school and private houses." |
¶ Freeman
Nickerson |
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