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.
TEXT: Possibly “come”.
By 30 June 1842, well over one hundred banks in the United States had failed since the Panic of 1837. As demand for specie payments increased, Illinois’s only chartered banks, the Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown, the Bank of Cairo, and the State Bank of Illinois, were forced to suspend specie payments on multiple occasions. By fall 1842, the notes of the State Bank were so devalued that the state treasury refused to accept them as payment for taxes. By February 1843, the state legislature passed acts requiring both the State Bank of Illinois and the Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown to cease operations and liquidate their assets, and in March 1843, the charter of the Bank of Cairo was repealed. In early 1842, JS wrote to Edward Hunter in the East: “The State Bank is down, and we cannot tell you what Bank would be safe a month hence, I would say that Gold and silver is the only safe money a man can keep these times, you can sell specie here for more premium, than you have to give, therefore there would be no loss, and it would be safe, The Bank you deposit in might fail before you had time to draw out again.” (Dowrie, Development of Banking in Illinois, 104, 114–115, 124–126; Pease, Frontier State, 308–315; An Act to Diminish the State Debt, and Put the State Bank into Liquidation [24 Jan. 1843], An Act to Put the Bank of Illinois into Liquidation [25 Feb. 1843], and An Act to Repeal the Charter of the Bank of Illinois [4 Mar. 1843], Laws of the State of Illinois [1842–1843], pp. 21–30, 36–39; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Edward Hunter, West Nantmeal, PA, 9 and 11 Mar. 1842, JS Collection, CHL .)
Dowrie , George William. The Development of Banking in Illinois, 1817–1863. University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 4. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1913.
Pease, Theodore Calvin. The Centennial History of Illinois. Vol. 2, The Frontier State, 1818–1848. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1922.
Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Thirteenth General Assembly, at Their Regular Session, Began and Held at Springfield, on the Fifth of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Two. Springfield, IL: Walters and Weber, 1843.
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
The term “rags” here may have referred to paper money, or perhaps to rags that could be used to produce paper. (“Rag,” in Oxford English Dictionary, 8:105.)
The Oxford English Dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, W. A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions. 12 vols. 1933. Reprint, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.