170 years ago today - August 10, 1845. Sunday.

[William Clayton] ...a letter was read from Pittsburgh from Amos Fielding dated ... that Sidney Rigdon has had a revelation requiring his followers to sell their property and give him the avails of it to purchase land in the East to build up the kingdom. ...

[Source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://bit.ly/WilliamClayton]

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  1. 2 months after the baptism of Wm. Bickerton - Joseph Smith's and Sidney Rigdon's true and eventual successor in the presidency of the church.

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