3,000 gather in unfinished Nauvoo Temple for the first official meeting (the walls are only 4 feet high).
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
November 12, 1842 ~ Saturday
7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 Was spent in the printing office
& in the City Council. Elder Taylor & myself
had an interview with Joseph Smith & he wished
we us to take the responsibility of the printing
office upon usourselves & liberate him from it
he proffered to rent the property to us for simple
interest & we concluded to take it. We spent
several days in the City Council passing a law
relative to writ of Habus Corpus. After it was
passed Joseph felt secure to stay at home as
the law protected him as well as all other
citizens
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Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
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Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
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