Mission - Conference Minutes in Preston, England, 15 April 1840

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Mission - Conference Minutes in Preston, England, 15 April 1840

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Church History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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    At a general conference of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints held in the Temperance Hall Preston, Lincashire, England, on the fifteenth day of April Eighteen hundred & forty—Er Kimball was called to preside & Elder Wm Clayton chosen as clerk— It being the tenth day of the first month of the eleventh year of the church. The meeting was opened by singing & prayer by Er Kimball Elder Kimball then called upon the Elders to represent the different branches of the church—When— Er
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    Er Wm Clayton repd the church at Manchester— 240 M, 2 Ers 5 P, 4 Trs, 1 D Er Wm Clayton repd the church at Stockport 40 M, 1 P, 2 Trs, 1 D Er Wm Clayton repd the church at Dukinfield— 30 M, 1 P, Er Wm Clayton repd the church at Altrincham 8 M, 1 P, 1 Tr Er Wm Clayton repd the church at Peover & Macclesfield 30 M, 3 P. Er Wm Clayton repd the church ...
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    Moved & Secd that bro Jno Bleazard of Sawlesbury be ordained to the office of a Priest. Card. Moved & secd that bro James Corbridge of Thornley be ordained to the office of a Priest. Card. Er Kimball then laid before the conference the importance and propriety of ordaining a Patriarch— to bestow Patriarchal blessings on the fatherless &c— Referred to the Twelve whose business it is to select & ordain him according to the directions of the spirit. After various remarks & addresses being given by the ...
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    Willd. Woodruff Minutes of a conference held in Preston, Lancashire England, April 15, 1840