Item Detail
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MSS 5873
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Bethian Bonney Nelson Letter
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Nelson, Bethian Bonney
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1836
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Lengthy letter from Bethiah Bonney Miller Nelson to her aged mother (and brother, Reverend Moses Miller of Heath, MA). She describes her life and the state of religion in Portage County, Ohio, including an annotated map of portage county drawn by her husband, Rev. Bonney. Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, June 20, 1836. This document contains original, unpublished religious data on towns relevant to Mormon history. This was the county of the Snow family, the county where Doctrine and Covenants 76 was received, and where Church headquarters were located temporarily in the early 1830s.