Church of the Firstborn (Morrisite)

An eight-page Roll of Membership, Names of Persons Baptized into the Fulness of the Gospel was published in San Francisco in 1886.

[5] An introduction to the roll reads: "Names of persons baptized during the administration of Joseph Morris, at South Weber, Utah Territory, in the years of 1861 and 1862."

"[6] A copy of the Roll of Membership housed in the Archives of the Community of Christ includes notations in pencil identifying those in positions of authority next to the following individuals: John Banks, Prescy.

[7] Each time that happened, a handful of members would recover their possessions from the community pool and leave the congregation.

Those who stayed behind felt those who left were taking better stock and other items than they had initially contributed to the community pool.

Soon after three departing members—William Jones, one of Morris's first converts, John Jensen, and Lars C. Geertsen—vowed revenge after what they perceived as an unfair reckoning, they seized a load of wheat en route from Kingston to Kaysville for milling.

Ultimately, many of the members of the church began to regather in Deer Lodge County, Montana, under the leadership of George Williams, who declared himself to be the "Prophet Cainan" and Morris's rightful successor.

[8] Like most Latter Day Saint denominations, the Church of the Firstborn taught that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God.

Morris prophesied that Jesus would be reincarnated and born to an Arab in Jerusalem in 1909, and some have identified Dr. Dahesh as the fulfilment of that prophecy.

Jensen taught that the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, where he had been incarcerated, was actually Ezekiel's Temple.