Footnotes
Ehat and Cook, Words of Joseph Smith, 419n2.
Ehat, Andrew F., and Lyndon W. Cook, eds. The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1980.
Jessee, “Joseph Smith’s 19 July 1840 Discourse,” 390n1.
Jessee, Dean C. “Joseph Smith’s 19 July 1840 Discourse.” BYU Studies 19, no. 3 (Spring 1979): 390–394.
See Matthew 5:13; Book of Mormon, 1837 ed., 506 [3 Nephi 12:13]; Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:40]; and Revelation, 24 Feb. 1834 [D&C 103:10].
Although Peck was excommunicated, his family remained members of the church. They likely did not arrive in Quincy, Illinois, before mid-May 1839. (“Extracts of the Minutes of Conferences,” Times and Seasons, Nov. 1839, 1:15; William W. Phelps, Far West, MO, to Sally Waterman Phelps, St. Louis, MO, 1 May 1839, CHL.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Phelps, William W. Letter, Far West, MO, to Sally Waterman Phelps, St. Louis, MO, 1 May 1839. CHL.