Footnotes
JS, Journal, 22 Sept. 1835.
See Minutes, 14 Sept. 1835; and Minutes, 16 Sept. 1835.
See JS, Journal, 14–19 Nov. and 18 Dec. 1833; and Blessing to Frederick G. Williams, in Patriarchal Blessings, 1:13.
Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.
Bishop Edward Partridge and Isaac Morley, one of Partridge’s counselors, might also have received blessings at this time if they had not been away from Kirtland preaching in the eastern United States. (Patriarchal Blessings, 1:1–15; JS, Journal, 27 Mar. 1836; Partridge, Diary, 21–25 Sept. 1835.)
Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.
Partridge, Edward. Diaries, 1818 and 1835–1836. Edward Partridge, Papers, 1818–1839. CHL. MS 892, box 1, fds. 1–2.
Whitmer was appointed to this position at the meeting in which the Missouri high council was organized. JS later related that David Whitmer’s 1834 ordination called him “to be a leader, or a prophet to this Church” in the event that JS fell out of favor with God. (Minutes and Discourse, ca. 7 July 1834; Minute Book 2, 15 Mar. 1838.)
Whitmer departed Liberty, Missouri, around 24 August 1834. (Whitmer, Daybook, 24 Aug. 1834; JS, Journal, 27 Mar. and 2 Apr. 1836.)
Whitmer, John. Daybook, 1832–1878. CHL. MS 1159.
See Revelation, 22–23 Sept. 1832 [D&C 84:88].
See Isaiah 52:12; 58:8; Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 498–499, 501 [3 Nephi 20:42; 21:29]; and Revelation, 7 May 1831 [D&C 49:27].
See Revelation, 3 Nov. 1831 [D&C 133:28].
According to John Whitmer, on 24 September 1835, church leaders at Kirtland met to organize the return to Zion. John Whitmer said that meeting participants, “according to a previous commandment given, appointed David Whitm[er] Capt of the Lords host.” JS’s journal for the same date records, “This day drew up an Article of inrollment for the redemton of Zion that we may obtain volenteers to go next Spring to Mo [Missouri].” (Whitmer, History, 81; JS, Journal, 24 Sept. 1835.)
See Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:18]; and Revelation, 24 Feb. 1834 [D&C 103:11].
See Isaiah 49:2; and Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 54 [1 Nephi 21:2].