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| United Firm members agree upon terms of the dissolution of the company. |
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April 2, 1836 |
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Kirtland council, 2. |
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Upper room of the Printing Office, Kirtland, Ohio. |
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| Description |
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… individuals comprising the
firm of F. G. Williams & Co. (viz.) Joseph Smith Junr. Sidney Rigdon
Oliver Cowdery, W. W. Phelps, John Whitmer, and F. G. Williams, met … |
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[Joseph Smith] |
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| Clerk |
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W. A. Cowdery |
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| Debt, stock, release Phelps and Whitmer |
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[Meet to consider] the situation of the firm in a pecuniary
point of view, to devise ways & means to discharge the debts, to make
a partial division of of stock and to release from the responsibility of
the company Messrs. Wm. W. Phelps & John
Whitmer. |
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| Raise money |
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First. We deem it wisdom, considering the importance of our
contributing all in our power for the redemption of Zion, that J. Smith
Junr. and Oliver Cowdery be a board or committee whose duty it shall be
to raise all the money they can in Righteousness, for a season, to send
by, or to certain wise men appointed to purchase land in Zion in obedience
to a revelation or command of the Lord for the mutual benefit of the said
company or firm aforesaid. |
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| Pay debts |
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Second. It is mutually agreed that Sidney
Rigdon & F.
G. Williams exert themselves in devising ways & means with the stock
on hand, the available outstanding claims of the firm and such other means
as they may deem most proper to discharge the company debts. |
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| Presidency in Zion get boks |
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Third. It is also mutually understood & agreed that W. W. Phelps,
J. Whitmer & David Whitmer, have five hundred Books of Doctrine & Covenants
when bound and five hundred hymn books together with the subscription list
for the Messenger & Advocate and Northern Times now due the firm in
Clay Co. Missouri, and that Messrs. W. W. Phelps & John Whitmer be
released from the responsibility of all claims on them or either of them,
as joint partners in the firm aforesaid. |
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Minutes of May 14, 1836
Minutes of March 19, 1836
Ohio Minutes
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