Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
Probably Frederick Taylor, former secretary of the Illinois Land Company in New York City. Taylor advertised his November 1842 departure from New York to the “Military Bounty Tract of Illinois,” which included all of Hancock County and the surrounding counties. While he advertised a willingness to perform any business service required of him, he particularly mentioned “paying taxes upon lands, making sales, examining titles, recording deeds, and surveying land.” William Clayton added that Taylor was “Clerk for the Ill[inois] Land Agency” and that Taylor and JS “viewed the Draft of the Temple; the Temple &c.” (“Illinois Lands,” New York Herald, 29 Oct. 1842, [2]; Frederick Taylor, “To Persons Having Land in the Far West,” New York Herald, 29 Oct. 1842, [4]; Clayton, Journal, 28 Jan. 1843; see also Taylor, Sketch of the Military Bounty Tract of Illinois, 1–12.)
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Taylor, F. A Sketch of the Military Bounty Tract of Illinois. . . . Philadelphia: I. Ashmead, 1839.
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The “falls” refer to the Des Moines rapids, an eleven-mile stretch of the Mississippi River above Keokuk, Iowa, where the river dropped some twenty-two feet in elevation. The rapids were unnavigable during seasons of low water. (Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, 188.)
Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.