180 years ago today - Friday, May 3, 1844

I have attended the Grand Council as I will call it. Elder [Lucien] Woodworth has returned from Texas, the Prospect of our obtaining Room to form a Colony there is fair.

[Joseph Fielding journal, as quoted in Jedediah S. Rogers (editor), The Council of Fifty: A Documentary History, Signature Books (2014)]

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