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Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:

Orley Dwight Bliss autobiography and diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 615
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography and diary. Account is retrospective until 1864, when Bliss writes short daily entries about his journey from Salt Lake City to Nebraska by ox team to help gather the poor to Utah. On the return trip to Utah, Bliss describes weather conditions, daily camping locations and mileage, encounters with Indian tribes, and more than twenty deaths from cholera. Bliss immigrated to Utah at age 8 and participated in the Utah War. Several pages of family genealogy are included...
Dates: 1864-1865
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Lillburn W. Boggs letters received

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325661]
Identifier: MSS SC 2698
Scope and Contents Photographs of a handwritten and signed letters addressed to Lilburn W. Boggs and dated 22 and 24 July 1840. One of the items is from Chauncey Durkus denying reports that he has been involved in arresting Mormons in Illinois and taking them back to Missouri. The veracity of his statements was confirmed by the signatures of 37 residents of Lewis County, Missouri. The other item was signed by 11 residents of Lewis County claiming that persons; who went to Nauvoo, Illinois, to recover stolen...
Dates: 1840 July 24; 1840 July 22
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Joseph Smith, Jr. bonds

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342997]
Identifier: MSS 771
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten and signed bonds. Three of the items are signed by Smith, date form 1839 and 1841, and relate to purchases of property in Nauvoo, Illinois. The fourth item is dated 27 Sept. 1845 and deals with Nathaniel Whiting transferring property.

Dates: 1839-1845
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

The book of life of Hugh Moon

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342922]
Identifier: MSS 751
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Moon was born in Lancashire, England, converted to Mormonism with his parents, came to Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1848, moved to St. George, Utah, in 1861, and relocated to Farmington, Utah, in 1866.

Dates: 1869
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Bullock family financial papers, 1808-1833

 Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 772 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains promissory notes and other financial transactions and receipts surrounding the Bullock family. A majority of the notes are made to or from Francis Bullock. Dated 1808-1833.

Dates: 1808-1833
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Thomas Bullock papers

Thomas Bullock papers

 Collection
Identifier: Vault MSS 772
Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to the life and family members of Thomas Bullock. Includes personal and professional materials of journals, letters of correspondence, financial records, certificates, genealogical data, recorded blessings, and poems. His original and copied journal excerpts document day to day life, spiritual experiences, and recorded historical moments while living in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the Mormon Trail in 1858, and living in Utah. Letters of correspondence are penned by...
Dates: 1808-1991; Majority of material found within 1808-1892
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Burton and Fielding family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4133
Scope and Contents

The Burton genealogy includes biographical information and sketches about James and Isabella Burton and their descendants. The Fielding family correspondence consists of photocopies of handwritten letters, most written while Joseph Fielding was serving as a missionary in England.

Dates: 1838-1967
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Robert Taylor Burton brass band drum score

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233282646]
Identifier: Vault MSS 16
Scope and Contents

Handwritten brass band drum score. Burton wrote the score while a member of the Nauvoo Brass band in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Dates: 1844
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Edwin Cadwell letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305028]
Identifier: MSS SC 750
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 1 March 1847, and addressed to Thomas Dutcher of Garrettsville, Ohio. Cadwell writes about family matters and criticises Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, for not having the right spirit.

Dates: 1847
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

E. V. Carter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 405
Scope and Contents Handwritten record (plus photocopies) of Carter's journey frm Ohio to St. Louis via Wisconsin. ALS's dated Oct. 15, 24, 1845 (plus photocopies) to his wife, Mary Hine Carter, are revised transcripts of diary. Diary entry for November 13 describes a visit to the Nauvoo, Illinois Temple.This is a journal kept by E.V. Carter during his journey from Tallmadge, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri. He wrote of a lecturer, "Mr. Little John," at a Methodist house in White Pigeon Prarie,...
Dates: 1845
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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