[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph and Emma set out with their family to visit Emma's sister, Elizabeth Hale Wasson, at Inlet Grove near Amboy, Illinois. They return home before reaching Amboy because Frederick breaks his leg. (1)
-- Jul 8, 1842
[Lucy Mack Smith] John C. Bennett publishes exposés in the Sangamon Journal over the next three months, then compiles them in a book. (1)
-- Jul 11, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith bought a horse, which he named Joe Duncan. (2)
-- Jul 15, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith was worried that Elder Orson Pratt had taken his life and organized a search for him. Elder Pratt returned that evening. (2)
-- Jul 16, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith rode out to the prairie with his clerk, William Clayton, hoed some potatoes, and dined with Cornelius P. Lott, who maintained Joseph Smiths farm. (2)
-- Jul 17, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith attended a meeting at a grove near the Nauvoo Temple but became sick and stayed at home the rest of the day. (2)
-- Jul 29, 1842
[Lucy Mack Smith] Eliza R. Snow becomes a plural wife of Joseph Smith. (1)
-- Aug 4, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith and 15 other brethren practiced fencing with Colonel Brewer. (2)
-- Aug 6, 1842
Joseph Smith prophesied Saints would be driven to Rocky Mountains. (3)
-- about Aug 6, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith prophesied that the Saints would be driven to the Rocky Mountains, endure many afflictions, and become a mighty people. (2)
-- Aug 6, 1842
[Joseph Smith] Joseph prophecies that the Saints will move to the Rocky Mountains and become a mighty people there. (4)
-- Aug 8, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith was arrested on a charge of being an accessory to an assault with intent to kill ex-Governor Lilburn Boggs of Missouri and was placed under custody of the city marshal after the court issued a writ of habeas corpus. (2)
Footnotes:
1 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
3 - Ludlow, Daniel H. editor, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Macmillan Publishing, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
4 - More Good Foundation, Timeline, http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org/joseph_smith_timeline
Mormon History Timeline /Chronology
http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/
