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South Carolina Temperance Advocate
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
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The Mormon spring conference in Nauvoo, Illinois, from April 6-9, 1840, drew 3,000-4,000 attendees, resulted in 74 baptisms and 30 ordinations. Joseph and Hyrum Smith led; John Page and Orson Hyde commissioned for mission to Holy Land. Settlement growing with 300 houses built and daily immigrant arrivals.
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It is known that those people, since their dispersion in Missouri, have collected in great numbers in and around Commerce in this State on the Mississippi river. The name of Commerce, as we have heretofore stated, they have changed to Nauvoo, from the Hebrew or Egyptian, though of the signification of the term we are ignorant. They hold two great conferences every year—in the spring and fall: and that appointed for the present spring took place last week, commencing on the 6th and ending on the 9th inst. We learn that between 3,000 and 4,000 persons were present, and that considerable accessions were made to the church from the surrounding neighborhood. Our informant states that the number was 74, all received by baptism, and that at the same time thirty of the ablest men were ordained to preach the gospel.
The preachers present were Joseph and Hiram Smith, John Page, Orson Hyde, and two others. Messrs. Page and Hyde, with ten others, (probably chosen elsewhere) were commissioned to go to the Holy Land, and to preach the gospel to the Jews. They are to meet in Quincy next Sabbath, and from thence to take their departure for Palestine.
About 300 houses have been put up in Nauvoo since last October. Some of them are neat frame buildings, but the greater portion are log cabins, designed for temporary habitations merely. The ground assigned to each is generally one acre, though to some there are five acres.
The increase of population by immigration is very great. Our informant states that several families arrive every day. A gentleman living on the road from Quincy to Nauvoo assured him that on some days at least 15 families passed his house, all bound to the latter place.—Peoria Register.
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Nauvoo
Event Date
6th To 9th Inst.
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74 baptisms; 30 men ordained; john page, orson hyde, and ten others commissioned for mission to holy land; 300 houses built since last october; daily immigrant arrivals including up to 15 families per day on some days.
Event Details
Mormons held spring conference in Nauvoo with 3,000-4,000 present; accessions from neighborhood; preachers included Joseph and Hiram Smith, John Page, Orson Hyde, and two others; mission to preach to Jews in Holy Land; settlement growth with log cabins and frame buildings on assigned land; increasing population by immigration from Quincy road.