May 18, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith and other Church leaders excommunicated Francis M. Higbee, Charles Ivins, and two others for apostasy.
Sources:
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 6:398
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters, Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
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