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Dec 6, 2018 · Marsh was born on November 1, 1799 in the town of Acton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts to James and Mary Law Marsh. At the age of fourteen he “ran away” from home and placed himself in several Vermont and New York areas.
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Marsh was born in the town of Acton, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts on November 1, 1799. His father was James Marsh. His mother was Mary Law. He spent his early life farming in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. As a young man, Marsh developed a pattern of traveling and working for various employers. Marsh ran away at age fourteen to C...
Marsh left his home in Boston and journeyed west, traveling with a Benjamin Hall. In his words, "I believed the Spirit of God dictated me to make a journey west." He stayed at Lima, in Livingston County, New York, for three months before returning home. On the way home, he stopped at Lyonstown, where a woman informed him of the Golden Plates which ...
Joseph Smith organized the first Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on the 14th and 15th of February 1835. Smith arranged the members by age. As there was confusion over David W. Patten's birth date, Thomas B. Marsh was identified as the eldest of the Quorum and so designated quorum president. According to Marsh's autobiographical sketch, published in 1...
In April of 1838, Church presidents Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon moved to Far West, which became the new Church headquarters. Although disfellowshipped, David and John Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery, W. W. Phelps and other former leaders (who were known as the "dissenters") continued to live in the County. By early June, some of the more zealous Saints,...
In 1857, Thomas Marsh was rebaptized. Marsh wrote an autobiography in 1864, recounting his church service and rebellion. It was published in the Millennial Star of that year. However, his religious affiliation still may not have been fixed. According to Elder Thomas Job, a missionary of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (n...
Despite his prominence in early church history, Marsh is rarely mentioned in instructional classes, discourses on religion or sermons in the modern church. Marsh's conversion story is occasionally cited as an example of how powerful the Book of Mormon can be in convincing people of the truthfulness of the church. When his apostasy is mentioned, he ...
Allen, James B. and Leonard, Glen M. The Story of the Latter-day Saints.Deseret Book Co., Salt Lake City, UT, 1976. ISBN 0-87747-594-6.Baugh, Alexander L. , A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri,BYU Studies, 2000.Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders &c. in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons; And the Evidence Given Before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of th...Journal of Discourses, Liverpool, England, 1854-1886.Marsh was born in the town of Acton, Massachusetts, to James Marsh and Molly Law. He spent his early life farming in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. As a young man, Marsh developed a pattern of traveling and working for various employers. Marsh ran away at age 14 to Chester, Vermont, and worked as a farmer for
Jan 16, 2019 · He was the first apostle ordained in 1835, was separated from the Church in 1839, and was rebaptized in 1857. See Harper, Saints, 1:120, 321, 346. See also Kay Darowski, “ The Faith and Fall of Thomas Marsh ,” in Revelations in Context, March 19, 2013, online at history.lds.org.
Origen looked upon it much as he looked upon the Epistle of James, but did not make the "Jude, the brother of James," one of the twelve apostles. Eusebius treats it as he does James, and Luther, followed by many modern conservative scholars (among them Neander), rejects it.
HISTORY OF THOMAS BALDWIN MARSH (Written by himself in Great Salt Lake City, November, 1857.) I was born in the town of Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, November 1, 1799. My father, James Marsh was born in Douglas, Massachusetts, March 27, 1751. My mother, Mary, daughter of Titus Law, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, March 18, 1759.
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Jan 8, 2013 · Thomas B Marsh was, for a time, an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, until his excommunication. He eventually returned to the church. Thomas B. Marsh was born in 1799 in Massachusetts, the son of James Marsh and Mary Law. In 1820, he married Elizabeth Godkin and began a grocery business.
