| Counselor to Joseph Smith in the
presidency of the High Priesthood (1832). |
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[1784] in East Marlborough, Chester
county, Pennsylvania |
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Unless
otherwise noted, information is from Jesse Gause, 487–493. |
| Died |
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[1836] |
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| Father |
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William Goss |
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| Mother |
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Mary Beverly |
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| Ordinations |
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Counselor to Joseph Smith in the
presidency of the High Priesthood. (Sidney
Rigdon was chosen and ordained
at the same time.) |
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KRB,
10–11, qtd. in JS revelations, 111n40. |
| Events:
Quaker |
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1806 joins the Society of Friends
(Quakers).
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1811 moves to Fayette county, Pennsylvania
in 1808, then back to Chester county. |
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1812 moves to Wilmington, Delaware
to at the Friends' school. |
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| War
of 1812 |
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1814 military service (War of 1812). |
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1815 moves to Philadelphia, marries. |
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1816 moves to Belmont county, Ohio. |
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1821 moves to Jefferson county, Ohio
(3 months), back to Chester county, Pennsylvania (a few weeks), then Wilmington. |
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| Wife
dies, remarries |
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1828 Martha dies following the birth
of their fourth child. Jesse marries Minerva almost immediately
after Martha's death. |
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| Resigns
from Quakers |
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January 30, 1829 resigns from Society
of Friends. |
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| Moves |
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Moves to Shaker village in Hancock,
Berkshire county, Massachusetts. |
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| Child |
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New wife gives birth to their first
child. |
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| Shaker |
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August 1829 family
joins the Shakers. |
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Shakers
observe celibacy. For Shakers see note in D&C
49. |
| Ohio |
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October 22, 1831 arrives at the
Shaker village at North Union, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (19 miles southwest
of Kirtland) with Minerva and child, leaving Martha's children with
his sister. |
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Records of the Church at North Union,
177:12, series V–B, Shaker Manuscripts, Western Reserve Historical
Society, Cleveland, Ohio cited by Jesse Gause, 489. |
| Conversion |
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How, when, and by whom Jesse was
converted is not known, although in March (seven months earlier), Sidney
Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt (h), and former
Shaker Leman
Copley made an apparently unsuccessful proselyting effort among
the Shakers in North Union where, we later learn, Jesse's wife was living.
It would not be unreasonable to assume he also had been a member of the
North Union community. |
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| High
Priesthood presidency |
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March 15, 1832 Joseph
ordains Jesse and Sidney Rigdon to be his counselors in the presidency
of the High Priesthood.
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¶ Presidents
of the High Priesthood
D&C 81 |
| United
Order |
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April 1832 accompanies Joseph Smith
to Zion to establish the United Order there. |
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Minutes
of Apr. 26–27, 1832
Minutes of Apr. 30, 1832
Minutes of Apr. 30, 1832b
North Union, now known as Shaker Heights, is now part of southeast Cleveland. Thompson is east-northeast, and Pittsburgh southeast
of Kirtland. |
| Preach
to Shakers |
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August 1, 1832 starts with Zebedee
Coltrin on a mission to the Shakers
in North Union and Thompson, and a Rappite community near Pittsburgh. |
| Wife
refuses |
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Visits wife at North Union. She refuses
join the Mormons. |
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| North ] Jess Gaines [Jesse Gause]
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[August 1832] Jess Gaines [Jesse Gause]
of Hancock was also here of late; he is a Mormon, second to the Prophet,
Joseph Smith. We hope he will not return and bother us further. |
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Matthew Houston (North Union)
to Seth Y. Wells (Mt. Lebanon, New York) in Valley of pleasure, 94.
Hancock, Berkshire county, Massachusetts included a Shaker village from
1790 to 1960. |
| Never
heard from again |
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August 19, 1832 Jesse and Zebedee
Coltrin pray with and for each other "in the fellowship of the Gospel
of our Lord & saviour Jesus Christ." Then Zebedee, who has been
suffering from severe headaches, returns home, and Jesse is never heard
from again. |
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Zebedee's diary;
Jesse Gause, 491. |
| Excommunicated |
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December 3, 1832 excommunicated
in absentia. |
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Minutes
of Dec. 3, 1832 |
| Families |
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Martha Johnson (d. 1828),
md. 1815. |
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4 children |
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Minerva, md. immediately after
Martha's death in 1828. |
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1 child, born before Jesse and Minerva join the Shakers in 1829. |
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