Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith wrote a letter to Oliver Cowdery. (1)
-- 175 years ago - about Dec 27, 1834
Joseph Smith exhibits to the Twelve what Young calls the "seer stone" but what Woodruff calls the "Urim and Thummim." Young says that at Nauvoo Smith finds two more seer stones on the banks of the Mississippi River. (2)
-- Dec 27, 1841
[Sermon] Orson Pratt: America a Choice Land - Its Aborigines, JD 12:338 - 346 (3)
-- Dec 27, 1868
[Utah] Apostle Wilford Woodruff tells stake conference in Snowflake, Arizona, "There will be no United States in the year 1890." (4)
-- 130 years ago - Dec 27,1879
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"
3 - Journal of Discourses, http://jod.mrm.org
4 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996
-- Tour through Mormon history: http://mormon-church-history.blogspot.com
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