November 18, 1839
Columbus, Ohio
Because of illness among the group traveling to petition the government, Joseph Smith and Judge Elias Higbee went on ahead in order to make better time by stagecoach to Washington, D.C.
Sources:
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 4:21
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