July 6, 1840 ~ Monday MINUTES OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE A general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was held in the Carpenter's Hall, Manchester, Lancashire, England|Carpenters Hall on the 6th day of July 1840 it being the 1st day of the 4th month 11th year of the Church when the following officers of the travling high council|high council were present viz. Elder Brigham…

Moved & carried that Elders Thomas Kington|Thomas Kington, Alfred Cordon|Alfred Cordon, & Thomas Smith|Thomas Smith be ordained High Priest And John Albiston, b. 1782|John Albiston, be orda John Hopwood Bleazard|John Blezard, William Berry|William Berry, John Sanders, b. 1801|John Sanders, John Parkinson|John Parkinson, James Worsley|James Worsley, & John Allen, b. 1810|John Allen be ordained Elders & Joseph Slinger|Joseph Slinger George Walker|George Walker John Sivel Smith|John Smith Robert Caracticus Williams|Robert Williams, William…

the Latter-day Saints|Saints and from thence we went to Stoke-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England|Stoke and I felt truly to rejoice to once more meet the Saints in this region We had an interview with Elder Alfred Cordon|Cordon and preached at Stoke where we spent the night The next day I met Elder George Albert Smith|George A Smith and whith him and brother Theodore Turley|Turley I wrote a letter to…

Ezra Carter, b. 1773|in-law until the 5th of July, and then left for my native place, Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut|Farmington, where I arrived the third day after. While tarrying at my Aphek Woodruff, b. 1779|father's house I married my sister Eunice Hart Woodruff Webster|Eunice Woodruff to Mr. Dwight Webster|Dwight Webster. At my sister's marriage there were between forty and fifty persons, mostly our relatives. This was on…