| After three days of
discussions, the high council of Zion and their two independent-minded presidents
reconcile. (¶ Thomas B. Marsh's
letter of May 1837 indicates the presidents "suffered themselves
to be corrected by the council.") At this meeting, the Far West city
plat is adopted, the presidents are among the five "wise men"
appointed to price and sell town lots, building committee named for the
House of the Lord with the presidents of the stake to superintend and receive
revelations for them. |
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| Date |
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April 7, 1837 |
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FWR
Far West Record: Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844, edited by Donald Q. Cannon and Lyndon W. Cook (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1983).
,
103–104. |
| Location |
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Far West, home of Levi
Jackman |
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Apparently
second session of the day. |
| Description |
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Council convened agreeable
to adjournment. |
| Clerk |
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John
Corrill |
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| Present: High
council |
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John
Whitmer and W. W. Phelps, presidents
John Murdock
Levi Jackman
T. B. Marsh (h)
D. W. Patten (h)
Solomon Hancock
Simeon Carter
Lyman Wight
Calvin Beebe
Elias Higbee, counselors |
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| Present: Bishop
and counselors |
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Bishop Edward
Partridge
Isaac Morley and John
Corrill, counselors |
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| Open |
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Prayer and singing "The
Towers of Zion soon shall Rise, &c." |
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| Adopted
resolutions |
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John Corrill to be clerk. |
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| Far
West plat |
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Far West city plat adopted
in present form. |
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| Alleys |
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Majority vote of residents
can open a block's alleys. |
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| Price
and sale of lots |
¶ |
Resolved, that the price and saile of town lots be left with the Judgment of the wise men, viz
W. W. Phelps, John Whitmer, Edward Partridge, Isaac Morley, and John Corrill. |
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Building
committee
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¶ |
… These quorums [high council and bishop's council] accept of Jacob Whitmer,
Elisha H. Groves, and George M Hinkle as building committee of the house
of the Lord in this City. |
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| Jacob
substitutes for David Whitmer |
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Also that Jacob Whitmer be received
as a high Counsellor until President David Whitmer
arrives at this place. |
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| Stake
presidents building superintendents, revelators |
¶ |
Resolved, that President David
Whitmer, John Whitmer and W. W. Phelps be appointed to superintend building of [104] the house
of the Lord in this City [of] Far West and receive Revelations Visions &c. concerning said
house. |
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| Close |
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Singing, prayer by John
Whitmer. |
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