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| Detroit
/ Wayne |
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June 15, 1831 |
Lucy Mack Smith,
Almira Mack, Hyrum Smith, John
Murdock, John Corrill, Lyman Wight |
Visit Mack relatives in Detroit. The next day,
finding no one interested in their message, the men wipe their feet "as
a testimony against that city." Hyrum and John Murdock |
¶ John
Murdock |
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Oct.
1834 |
Oliver
Cowdery |
"Detroit is a small town
on the West bank of the River of the same name; is pleasantly situated … it
is said that some hundreds have fallen victims to [cholera this season] … contains
no more than 4000 inhabitants … [a] stage runs daily from Detroit
to [Pontiac]." |
MA 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1834):
6. |
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| Florence (Florence
Bay, Lake, Pond, or Island?) / ? |
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May 1832 |
Gideon and Jared
Carter |
"Brother Jared has been
to Michigan and raised up three small ones. There is the greatest prospect
in Florence that there ever has been: I baptised ten there." |
Gideon H. Carter, EMS 2,
no. 14 (July 1833): 108. |
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| Monroe
/ Monroe |
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Sep. 10, 1818 |
Algernon Sidney
Gilbert |
Purchases a small lot for a
store near the harbor. |
¶ Algernon
Sidney Gilbert |
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June 10, 1820 |
Algernon Sidney
Gilbert |
Sells Monroe store, starts another
one in Mentor, Ohio. |
¶ Algernon
Sidney Gilbert |
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| Pekin
Township (16 mi. W of Detroit; Redford, March 1833) / Wayne |
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| Pontiac
/ Oakland |
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Early summer 1831 |
Lucy Mack Smith,
Hyrum and Samuel H. Smith, Almira Mack, John
Murdock, John
Corrill, Lyman Wight |
Visit Mack relatives in Pontiac. David Dort
and wife are converted. |
¶ 1831
Chronology |
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Feb. 16, 1833 |
Jared Carter |
Samuel Bent: Jared
has been here 5 weeks and baptized 22, including himself, wife,
and children. He ordained Samuel an elder and they have been traveling
together two weeks. |
EMS 1, no. 11 (Apr.
1833). |
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1833 |
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Branch is organized
(year before Joseph arrives). |
Edward Stevenson
manuscript, The Life and History, Elder Edward Stevenson. LDS Church
Archives. |
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Oct. 1834 |
Joseph
and Samuel H. Smith, Oliver
Cowdery, Frederick G. Williams, David
Whitmer,
Amos and Roger Orton visit |
Visit. |
MA 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1834):
6; Edward Stevenson Reminiscence
(2) |
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1838–1844 |
S. Wilbur Denton |
Co-editor of Pontiac's Jacksonian newspaper. |
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1844–1848, 1853–1860 |
S. Wilbur Denton |
Postmaster |
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| White
Pigeon Prairie (on Indiana border, 24 mi. NE of Elkhart, Indiana) / St.
Joseph |
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Named for Indian chief
White Pigeon, who was friendly to early travelers and white settlers. Third
village settled (ca 1826) in current Illnois. Situated on the road from
Detroit to Chicago. On October 30, 1829, the original St. Joseph County
was organized into five large townships, of which White Pigeon Township
was one. It included the present townships of Lockport, Florence, Fabius,
Constantine, Mottville, and White Pigeon. Short-lived White Pigeon Academy
was incorporated in 1831, by which time the village included a tavern and
stage stop. |
White
Pigeon History
Fabius
Township History
Tales of Early
Niles by Ballard |
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Our drive of twelve
miles to breakfast was very refreshing. The roads were the best we had
travelled since we left New York State. We passed through a wilderness
of flowers; trailing roses, enormous white convolvulus, scarlet lilies,
and ground-ivy, with many others, being added to those we had before seen.
Milton must have travelled in Michigan before he wrote the garden parts
of "Paradise Lost." Sturgis's and White Pigeon Prairies are highly
cultivated, and look just like any other rich and perfectly level land.
We breakfasted at White Pigeon Prairie, and saw the rising ground where
the Indian chief lies buried, whose name has been given to the place. |
Harriet Martineau, " "Picture
of Michigan," Society in America. London: Saunders and
Otley, 1837. Link
to source. |
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June 30, 1831 |
Hyrum Smith, John Murdock |
Preach a sermon on way to Independence. Next
day travel 20 miles and overnight with Potawatomie Indians. "… received
supper and breakfast from them and gave them some articles we had for their
kindness." |
Murdock autobiography, 23. |
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