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.
Construction of the temple in Kirtland began in the summer of 1833, at which time Reynolds Cahoon’s three younger sons were Pulaski, Daniel, and Andrew, ages twelve or thirteen, eleven, and eight, respectively. (Shurtleff and Cahoon, Reynolds Cahoon, 78.)
Shurtleff, Stella Cahoon, and Brent Farrington Cahoon, comps. Reynolds Cahoon and His Stalwart Sons: Utah Pioneers. Salt Lake City: Paragon Press, 1960.
A petition of this date signed by Alpheus Cutler, Reynolds Cahoon, Peter Haws, Hyrum Smith, and forty others urged JS to publish his decision in the case of Dana v. Brink. “By so doing,” they wrote, “we believe many will receive information, genuine in its place, and very important to husbands and wives.” The petition and decision were published on 22 March 1843 in The Wasp.
In April Brink appealed the 10 March decision before the Nauvoo Municipal Court, which determined that the municipal court had no jurisdiction in the case. Brink appealed again before the Hancock County Circuit Court in May 1843. No judgment was rendered until the May 1844 session, however, when a jury upheld JS’s decision but reduced the judgment from ninety-nine to seventy-five dollars. The court was unable to collect, and in September 1844 Dana filed a declaration demanding that the judgment and damages be collected. The case was continued for several terms of court thereafter without result. Finally, in October 1846, the court approved a motion that “this suit be dismissed at the plaintiffs Costs.” Dana may have settled privately with Brink and/or Moses Smith and Jonah R. Ball, who as cosigners on the bond required for appeal were legally obligated to pay if Brink did not. (JS, Journal, 19 Apr. 1843; Dana v. Brink [Nauvoo Mun. Ct. 1843], Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 53–54; Declaration, Sept. 1844, Dana v. Brink [Hancock Co. Cir. Ct. 1844], Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court, Civil and Criminal Files, box 21, microfilm 1,521,366, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Appeal, 23 May 1844, and Scifa, 19 Oct. 1846, Dana v. Brink [Hancock Co. Cir. Ct. 1844], Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Records, vol. D, pp. 114, 455, microfilm 947,496, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)