Tag: Willard Richards

  • Masonic Endowment

    Masonic Endowment

    Excerpt from History of the Church, Vol. 4 Pg. 550 (March 15, 1842): 1

    “In the evening I received the first degree in Free Masonry in the Nauvoo Lodge assembled in my general business office

    Excerpt from History of the Church, Vol. 4 Pg. 552 (March 16, 1842): 2

    “Wednesday, March 16.—I was with the Masonic Lodge and rose to the sublime degree.”

    Excerpt from History of the Church, Vol. 5 Pg. 1,2 (May 4, 1842): 3

    “Wednesday, 4.—I spent the day in the upper part of the store, that is in my private office (so called because in that room I keep my sacred writings, translate ancient records, and receive revelations) and in my general business office, or lodge room (that is where the Masonic fraternity meet occasionally, for want of a better place) in council with General James Adams, of Springfield, Patriarch Hyrum Smith, Bishops Newel K. Whitney and George Miller, and President Brigham Young and Elders Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards, instructing them in the principles and order of the Priesthood, attending to washings, anointings, endowments and the communication of keys pertaining to the Aaronic Priesthood, and so on to the highest order of the Melchisedek Priesthood…”

    Duncan’s Masoic Ritual and Monitor, by Malcom C. Duncan, [1866]: 4

    References

    References
    1, 2, 3 History of the Church, Vol. 4 – https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/volume-4-chapter-32
    4 Duncan’s Masoic Ritual and Monitor – http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/dun/dun01.htm
  • Joseph’s Bar

    Joseph’s Bar

    From the Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 12 Dec. 1843, signed by Joseph Smith Jr. [mayor]: 1

    “An Ordinance for the health and convenience of travellers and other purposes.
    Section 1 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Nauvoo, that the Mayor of the City be and is hereby authorized to sell, or give Spirits, of any quantity he in his wisdom shall judge to be for the health, comfort or convenience of such travellers or other persons as shall visit his House from time to time
    Passed December 12. 1843
    Joseph Smith Mayor”

     

    References

    References
    1 Nauvoo City Council, Ordinance, 12 Dec. 1843; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 12 Dec. 1843, 194; signed by JS and Willard Richards – http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/ordinance-12-december-1843-c/1#source-note