[Joseph Smith] The first British converts arrive at Nauvoo.
[Source: 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, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
This is one of DMQ's few errors. They sailed from Liverpool on this day Saturday in 1840 and arrived in N.Y. harbor on Mon.July 20th -- interestingly, arrived exactly 7 years and 1 day before the 2 advance scouts Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow entered the Salt Lake Valley on 7-21-47. See HC 4:134,162.
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