Conference record · 1830 June General Conference · 1830-06-09
Preferred witness is contemporaneous conference minutes by Oliver Cowdery in Minute Book 2. The record preserves business, ordinations, and brief references to exhortation, but not full sermon texts. A later History A-1 narrative is included as a secondary witness and gives a retrospective description of instruction and spiritual manifestations.
Minutes taken at the time of the conference by Oliver Cowdery; does not preserve full sermon text.
Later narrative history begun in 1838 and compiled from multiple sources; provides retrospective description of the first conference.
Proofread against the source text.
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Heavyweight pass: JSP source URLs verified as the correct item/page for this conference; Minute Book 2 p.1 transcript and History A-1 pp.41-42 transcript both collated word-for-word against the JSP page transcripts (fetched directly, not jod.mrm.org) -- both witnesses match the vault text exactly, including original spelling ('recieved', 'seignior') and the canceled-word reading in History A-1 ('proceeded' not the struck 'called'). No missing or altered text found. Metadata (title, speaker, date, conference, fidelity, witnesses) confirmed accurate as recorded.
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