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.
In cases of debt less than fifty dollars, when the defendant was either hiding or resisting arrest, a justice of the peace could issue a writ of attachment that would give the constable authority to seize the defendant’s property to the amount to satisfy the debt. (An Act to Regulate Proceedings by Attachment before Justices of the Peace [27 Feb. 1837], Laws of the State of Illinois [1836–1837], pp. 12–13, secs. 1–2.)
Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837. Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837.
That is, JS’s red brick store.
TEXT: Or “25”.
“Decision,” The Wasp, 22 Mar. 1843, [2]–[3].
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Dr. William Brink charged Charles Dana ten dollars for his medical services, though Dana apparently refused to pay the bill prior to the trial.a Brink had repeatedly advertised his medical services as carrying the guarantee of “no cure no pay.”b Brink “filed an account . . . for services rendered plaintiff’s wife on the 22d and 23d of October, 1842, of $10,00” during the course of the trial, but JS refused to “allow this account as a set off,” citing contract law that prevented medical practitioners from collecting fees for services in cases of “gross carelessness or unskilfulness.”c
(aJS, Journal, 2 Mar. 1843. b“Medical Notice,” The Wasp, 2 July 1842, [3]. c“Decision,” The Wasp, 22 Mar. 1843, [3].)The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
The court awarded Charles Dana the full amount he sought (ninety-nine dollars), which was also essentially the maximum amount allowed by law. According to the notice of appeal from the mayor’s court, court costs totaled $11.59½. (Notice of appeal, 31 Mar. 1843, Dana v. Brink [Nauvoo Mun. Ct. 1843], Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; see also JS, Journal, 2 Mar. 1843.)