Footnotes
Revelations dated 30 December 1830 and 2 January 1831 directed church members to gather in Ohio. According to an article in the Painesville Telegraph, Sidney Rigdon arrived on 1 February and JS arrived three days later. (Revelation, 30 Dec. 1830 [D&C 37:1, 3]; Revelation, 2 Jan. 1831 [D&C 38:32]; [Matthew S. Clapp], “Mormonism,” Painesville [OH] Telegraph, 15 Feb. 1831, [1].)
Painesville Telegraph. Painesville, OH. 1822–1986.
Copley was formerly a member of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, more commonly known as Shakers. (See Historical Introduction to Revelation, 7 May 1831 [D&C 49].)
Rigdon’s son later recalled that his father’s congregation in Mentor, Ohio, had “bought him a little farm . . . and were engaged in building him a house on it” when Oliver Cowdery and Parley P. Pratt introduced him to the Book of Mormon. After Sidney and Phebe Rigdon were baptized, the family moved in with other converts in the Kirtland area. (Rigdon, “Lecture on the Early History of the Mormon Church,” 14, 19–20.)
Rigdon, John Wickliff. Lecture on the Early History of the Mormon Church, [1906]. CHL. MS 3516.
Book of Commandments 43; Doctrine and Covenants 61, 1835 ed.
Whitmer, History, 11; see also Acts 2:44–45.
JS History, vol. A-1, 93.
JS History, vol. A-1, 92–93.
Knight, Autobiography and Journal, 29–30; see also Historical Introduction to Revelation, 20 May 1831 [D&C 51].
Knight, Newel. Autobiography and Journal, ca. 1846. CHL. MS 767.
Revelation, 9 Dec. 1830; [D&C 36:1] JS History, vol. A-1, 94; Young, “Incidents,” 3.
Young, Emily Dow Partridge. “Incidents of the Life of a Mormon Girl,” ca. 1884. CHL. MS 5220.
Young, “Incidents,” 3–4; see also Partridge, Genealogical Record, 5–6.
Young, Emily Dow Partridge. “Incidents of the Life of a Mormon Girl,” ca. 1884. CHL. MS 5220.
Partridge, Edward, Jr. Genealogical Record. 1878. CHL. MS 1271.
Revelation, 30 Dec. 1830 [D&C 37:1]; Young, “Incidents,” 5.
Young, Emily Dow Partridge. “Incidents of the Life of a Mormon Girl,” ca. 1884. CHL. MS 5220.
The word “at” was crossed out and “out” was inserted in its place by John Whitmer sometime after his initial inscription of the manuscript. (Revelation Book 1, p. 61.)
Text supplied based on John Whitmer’s later insertion in the manuscript. (Revelation Book 1, p. 61.)
John Whitmer likely created this heading when he copied the text into Revelation Book 1.
The 2 January 1831 revelation directing the members in New York to remove to Ohio had promised the reception of “my law” in Ohio. The first part of a revelation titled in Revelation Book 1 “The laws of the Church of Christ” was received five days after this 4 February revelation. (Revelation, 2 Jan. 1831 [D&C 38:32]; Revelation, 9 Feb. 1831 [D&C 42:1–72].)