August 5, 1841

Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith received a letter from his brother William Smith regarding the Hotchkiss land purchase on which Nauvoo was built.
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 4:391
Letter from William Smith, 5 August 1841 
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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