Footnotes
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865. Bullock’s docket on the verso of the first leaf states “June 1843 | Minutes of a meeting.” The notation on the recto of the first leaf, “23 to 30 [blank] 43,” presumably referred to the date span between JS’s arrest on 23 June 1843 and his return to Nauvoo on 30 June.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
See the full bibliographic entry for Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 1839–1877, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Minutes, 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo Mun. Ct. 1843), JS Collection, CHL; Docket Entry, ca. 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo Mun. Ct. 1843), Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 55–56; see also Historical Introduction to Extradition of JS for Treason. The warrant is featured with JS’s petition to the Nauvoo Municipal Court. (Petition to Nauvoo Municipal Court, 30 June 1843.)
Clayton, Journal, 23 June 1843; JS History, vol. D-1, 1581–1582; see also Historical Introduction to Affidavit, 24 June 1843. The power of attorney designating Reynolds as the agent responsible to convey JS to Missouri is featured with JS’s petition to the Nauvoo Municipal Court. (Petition to Nauvoo Municipal Court, 30 June 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Clayton, Journal, 23 June 1843; JS History, vol. D-1, 1583–1584; “Habeas Corpus,” in Bouvier, Law Dictionary, 1:454.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Bouvier, John. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union; With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Deacon and Peterson, 1854.
“Arrest of Joseph Smith,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 19 July 1843, [2]; JS History, vol. D-1, 1587; Woodruff, Journal, 25 June 1843; Joseph H. Reynolds, St. Louis, MO, 10 July 1843, Letter to the Editor, Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald, 10 July 1843, [2]; see also “Part 4: June–July 1843.”
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald. St Louis, MO. 1843–1844.
Edward Southwick, St. Louis, MO, 12 July 1843, Letter to the Editor, Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald, 12 July 1843, [2]; Minutes, 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo Mun. Ct. 1843), JS Collection, CHL; Docket Entry, ca. 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo Mun. Ct. 1843), Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 55–56.
Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald. St Louis, MO. 1843–1844.
Clayton, Journal, 2 July 1843; JS, Journal, 2 July 1843; see also Joseph H. Reynolds, St. Louis, MO, 10 July 1843, Letter to the Editor, Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald, 10 July 1843, [2].
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald. St Louis, MO. 1843–1844.
Clayton, Journal, 2 July 1843; JS, Journal, 2 July 1843; see also Joseph H. Reynolds, St. Louis, MO, 10 July 1843, Letter to the Editor, Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald, 10 July 1843, [2].
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald. St Louis, MO. 1843–1844.
“4th of July Celebration, at Nauvoo,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 28 June 1843, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Woodruff, Journal, 4 July 1843; JS, Journal, 4 July 1843; Levi Richards, Journal, 4 July 1843; Clayton, Journal, 4 July 1843; “Trip to Nauvoo on the 4th,” Quincy (IL) Whig, 12 July 1843, [3].
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Richards, Levi. Journals, 1840–1853. Levi Richards, Papers, 1837–1867. CHL. MS 1284, box 1.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.
George Alley, Nauvoo, IL, to Joseph Alley, Lynn, MA, 4 July 1843, George Alley, Letters, microfilm, CHL.
Alley, George. Letters, 1842–1859. Microfilm. CHL.
Woodruff, Journal, 4 July 1843.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff, Journal, 4 July 1843.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
After relocating from Missouri to Illinois in 1839, Latter-day Saint men in Hancock County joined the county’s militia regiment. Because Missouri militia officials had confiscated church members’ arms in the wake of the 1838 conflict between church members and their opponents, in September 1840 the Saints petitioned the state of Illinois for new arms. (Samuel D. Lucas, “near Far West,” MO, to Lilburn W. Boggs, 2 Nov. 1838, copy, Mormon War Papers, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City; Don Carlos Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Thomas Carlin, 27 Sept. 1840; Adjutant General’s Office, Rank Roll, 13 Jan. 1841, Illinois Governor’s Correspondence, 1816–1852, Illinois State Archives, Springfield.)
Mormon War Papers, 1838–1841. MSA.
Carlin, Thomas. Correspondence, 1838–1842. In Office of the Governor, Records, 1818–1989. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Wilford Woodruff’s account of this discourse clarifies that JS referenced the surgery he received after he contracted typhoid fever as a child and suffered a severe inflammation in his leg. The Illinois militia statute required all able-bodied men to perform militia duty, with fines assessed for failure to attend regimental musters. However, the law exempted “licensed ministers of the gospel” from militia service, as well as individuals with “bodily infirmity or disability.” (JS History, vol. A-1, 131; Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 2, [9], [11]–[12]; bk. 3, [1]–[2]; An Act for the Organization and Government of the Militia of this State [2 Mar. 1833], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois, pp. 469, 478, 487, secs. 1, 32, 51, 54; see also Wirthlin, “Nathan Smith,” 319–337.)
The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois: Containing All the Laws . . . Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835; and at Their Second Session, Commencing December 7, 1835, and Ending January 18, 1836; and Those Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837; and at Their Special Session, Commencing July 10, and Ending July 22, 1837. . . . Compiled by Jonathan Young Scammon. Chicago: Stephen F. Gale, 1839.
Wirthlin, LeRoy S. “Nathan Smith (1762–1828) Surgical Consultant to Joseph Smith.” BYU Studies 17 (Spring 1977): 319–337.
In February 1841, the Nauvoo City Council organized the Nauvoo Legion, a city militia that was independent of the Hancock County militia regiment, and JS was elected lieutenant general. (Minutes, 3 Feb. 1841; Minutes, 4 Feb. 1841.)
TEXT: A corresponding symbol appears at the top of the recto of the fourth leaf, indicating that the inscription continues at that point.