April 4, 1832
Joseph Smith took passage aboard a steamboat while traveling from Steubenville, Ohio, to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia).
Travels
April 24, 1832
Joseph Smith arrived in Independence after traveling first by steamboat and then an additional 300 miles by stagecoach.
April 28–29, 1832
Joseph Smith visited the Church members living above the Big Blue River.
May 6, 1832
Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Newel K. Whitney departed Independence by stagecoach. On their return to Kirtland, Ohio, near Greenville, Indiana, the horses became frightened. Joseph jumped safely from the coach, but Newel's foot caught in the wheel as he jumped. His leg and foot were broken in several places. Joseph tended him at Mr. Porter's public house in Greenville for four weeks. Sidney continued on to Kirtland alone.
October 5, 1833
Joseph Smith started on a journey to the eastern United States and Canada.
October 15, 1833
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon were refused entrance to preach in a Presbyterian meetinghouse.
October 18, 1833
Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Freeman Nickerson arrived at the house of Eleazer Freeman Nickerson.
October 24, 1833
When Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon returned from preaching in Waterford, Eleazer Freeman Nickerson and his wife "declared their belief in the work, and offered themselves for baptism."
October 29, 1833
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon departed for their return trip to Kirtland, Ohio.
November 1, 1833
While Joseph was en route to Kirtland, mobs attacked the Gilbert and Whitney Store in Independence, Missouri, partially destroying it, as well as the homes of many Saints.
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