The subpoenas were issued “for witnesses on the defence.” (“Statement of Facts,” Times and Seasons, 1 July 1844, 5:564.)

Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

JS and Hyrum were apparently confined in the “crim[i]nals cell.” (Richards, Journal, 25 June 1844; see also Ford, History of Illinois, 338.)

Ford, Thomas. A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847. Containing a Full Account of the Black Hawk War, the Rise, Progress, and Fall of Mormonism, the Alton and Lovejoy Riots, and Other Important and Interesting Events. Chicago: S. C. Griggs; New York: Ivison and Phinney, 1854.

A notation on this list of names indicates it was “copied for J. P. Green [John P. Greene],” the Nauvoo city marshal. (Willard Richards, List of Witnesses in Carthage and Nauvoo, 26 June 1844, JS Office Papers, CHL.)

The mittimus, signed by Robert Smith, on which JS and Hyrum Smith were currently incarcerated. Noting that a continuance had been granted until noon on 27 June, the mittimus commanded the jailor to keep them “in the Jail of the county there to remain until . . . said Examination according to Law.” (Mittimus, 26 June 1844, State of Illinois v. JS and Hyrum Smith for Treason [J.P. Ct. 1844], copy, JS Office Papers, CHL.)

Thomas Ford had visited JS and Hyrum Smith in a room they had been moved to following breakfast. It was located on the second floor and furnished with a bed, a “chair or two, and some mattresses.” They stayed in this room the night of 26 June and during the day of 27 June. Ford identified it as a “larger room . . . more airy and comfortable than the cells” and distinct from the jailor’s living quarters. (John S. Fullmer, Preston, England, to George A. Smith, 27 Nov. 1854, p. 8, Historian’s Office, JS History Documents, ca. 1839–1860; Jones, Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, 6; Ford, History of Illinois, 338.)

Historian’s Office. Joseph Smith History Documents, 1839–1860. CHL. CR 100 396.

Jones, Dan. The Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, 1855. CHL. MS 153.

Ford, Thomas. A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847. Containing a Full Account of the Black Hawk War, the Rise, Progress, and Fall of Mormonism, the Alton and Lovejoy Riots, and Other Important and Interesting Events. Chicago: S. C. Griggs; New York: Ivison and Phinney, 1854.

TEXT: Possibly “Recd”.

In his letter, Clayton told JS of a Mr. Marsh who had offered to pay bail for JS “to any amount” if needed and who wanted to give JS some corn he had. Clayton also told JS that a messenger was about to be sent to Judge Jesse Thomas—before whom JS hoped to have a habeas corpus hearing in Nauvoo—and that Captain James Singleton, who had arrived in Nauvoo with some policemen that morning under orders from Ford to protect the city, was requesting Ford recall him and his men because Singleton found “no difficulties to settle here but there is plenty to settle at home.” Clayton closed by telling JS that “all [was] peace in Nauvoo” and that the people there had no fears in spite of threats “that the mob [were] determined to attack the City” in JS’s absence. (William Clayton, Nauvoo, IL, to JS, Carthage, IL, 26 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)

James, Hunter, and Lewis had left Nauvoo for Springfield earlier in the month to deliver to Ford letters and other documents about the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor press and threats against the Mormons. Ford had not received the papers, however, probably because he left Springfield for Carthage the same day the Mormon party left Nauvoo. Ford arrived at Carthage on 21 June. (JS, Journal, 15, 17, and 21 June 1844; John Taylor, Statement, 23 Aug. 1856, p. 22, Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, ca. 1839–1856, CHL; “Mormon Troubles,” Sangamo Journal [Springfield, IL], 27 June 1844, [3]; see also JS History, vol. F-1, 172.)

Sangamo Journal. Springfield, IL. 1831–1847.