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 “stone”.
An ordinance was passed on 4 March 1843 making gold and silver the only lawful tender in Nauvoo. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 4 Mar. 1843, 167; JS, Journal, 4 Mar. 1843.)
On 12 August 1839 JS, Hyrum Smith, and Sidney Rigdon contracted to purchase “upwards of five hundred acres” from Connecticut land speculators Horace Hotchkiss, John Gillett, and Smith Tuttle. By the terms of the contract, Hotchkiss and his partners continued to hold title to the land until they were paid in full, which had not happened by 1843. As title holders they, rather than JS, were responsible for paying the taxes on the land. (Brigham Young et al., “An Epistle of the Twelve,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:567–570; Horace Hotchkiss, Fair Haven, CT, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 27 May 1842, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Journal, 5 Jan. 1843.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
On 10 February 1843 John Cowan requested that a Mormon “preacher” move to Shokokon. JS later gave power of attorney to Lyman to sell land in Shokokon, Illinois. Lyman also oversaw the survey of a town site and began building in the area. He and his family remained there until late June 1843. (JS, Journal, 10 Feb. and 1 Mar. 1843; “Amasa Lyman’s History,” Deseret News, 8 Sept. 1858, 117–118; see also JS, Journal, 17 Feb. 1843.)
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.