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.
McCoy, a Baptist reverend, was involved in a number of activities to drive church members from Jackson County, Missouri, in summer and fall 1833. Although McCoy clearly wanted the Mormons to leave Jackson County, he explained in a contemporaneous journal entry that he joined a company of vigilantes with the intent to prevent death and injury to the Mormons, after he perceived that the vigilantes were bent on revenge, and that he arranged for the group to remain at a distance from individual Mormon homes while he and a few others asked the Mormons to surrender their arms. (Lewis Abbott, Affidavit, Adams Co., IL, 25 June 1839, photocopy, Material relating to Mormon expulsion from Missouri, 1839–1843, CHL; Lemuel Herrick, Affidavit, Adams Co., IL, 8 Jan. 1840, photocopy, Material relating to Mormon expulsion from Missouri, 1839–1843, CHL; “A History, of the Persecution,” Times and Seasons, Jan. 1840, 1:33–36; McCoy, Journal, 6 Nov. 1833, quoted in Jennings, “Isaac McCoy and the Mormons,” 70–71.)
Material Relating to Mormon Expulsion from Missouri, 1839–1843. Photocopy. CHL. MS 2145.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Jennings, Warren A. “Isaac McCoy and the Mormons,” Missouri Historical Review 61, no. 1 (Oct. 1966): 62–82.
A reference to phrenology.