Footnotes
On 26 June, Knight purchased from Isaac Galland about sixteen thousand acres in the “Half-Breed Tract” in southern Iowa Territory. JS, accompanied by Sidney Rigdon, Hyrum Smith, Newel K. Whitney, Vinson Knight, Wilford Woodruff, and possibly other Montrose Saints, visited Nashville, which Woodruff called “Blefens point,” apparently named after F. P. Blevins, an Iowa Territory landowner. (JS, Journal, 2 July 1839; Lee Co., IA, Land Records, 1836–1961, vol. 2, pp. 3–6, 13–16, 26 June 1839, microfilm 959,239, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Woodruff, Journal, 2 July 1839; Elias Smith, Journal, 24 June 1839; F. P. Blevins, Agreement with Alanson Ripley, Nashville, Iowa Territory, 28 June 1839, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Smith, Elias. Journals, 1836–1888. CHL. MS 1319.
The presidency gave blessings to Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Theodore Turley of the Quorum of the Seventy; and Mary Ann Angell Young, Leonora Cannon Taylor, and Phebe Carter Woodruff, who were wives of apostles in attendance. According to Woodruff, the blessings promised that “if we were faithful we had the promise of again returning to the bosom of our families & being blesed on our mission.” (Woodruff, Journal, 2 July 1839; JS, Journal, 2 July 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff, Journal, 2 July 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff, Journal, 2 July 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff corrected the date when he copied his discourse notes into his 1839 journal. JS’s journal records JS traveling to Montrose and holding a meeting there on 2 July. (Woodruff, Journal, 2 July 1839; JS, Journal, 2 July 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
See Richards, “Pocket Companion,” 10–15.
Richards, Willard. “Willard Richards Pocket Companion Written in England,” ca. 1838–1840. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, box 2, fd. 6.
Instead of “any other that ever was or ever will be given & revealed unto man in this world or that which is to come,” Woodruff’s journal version has “any of the word of God.” (Woodruff, Journal, 2 July 1839.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
See Jeremiah 2:34.
Instead of “all other sins are not to be compared to sining against the Holy Ghost & proving a traitor to thy brethren,” Woodruff’s journal version has “we may ever know by this sign that there is danger of our being led to a fall & aposticy, when we give way to the devil so as to neglect the first known duty but whatever you do do not betray your Friend.” (Woodruff, Journal, 2 July 1839, underlining in original.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.