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 “on”.
Three days earlier JS gave instructions to notify Cowan of this appointment. (JS, Journal, 15 Apr. 1843.)
Wilford Woodruff reported that the Quorum of the Twelve gathered to confer with JS on this date, but “President Smith not being Presant the conference adjourned untill next day.” (Woodruff, Journal, 18 Apr. 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Possibly the southeast quarter of Section 25, Township 7 North, Range 8 West, at least part of which was sold to “sundry English brethren” on 19 April 1843. (Trustees Land Book B, 17 and 19 Apr. 1843, 17–18; Deed, JS [Trustee-in-trust] to Thomas Hamonds et al., [17 Apr. 1843], Nauvoo Restoration, Incorporated, Collection, CHL.)
Nauvoo Restoration, Incorporated. Collection, 1818–2001. CHL. MS 9622.
JS heard this case on 6 April 1843. (JS, Journal, 6 Apr. 1843.)
TEXT: Brown ink commences.
William Clayton noted that the delegation consisted of three “Indian Chiefs.” The draft notes of JS’s history identify the Indians as members of the Potawatomi tribe, as did the “Mr. Hitchcock” who evidently served as interpreter. (Clayton, Journal, 18 Apr. 1843; Historian’s Office, JS History, draft notes, 18 Apr. 1843; Henry King, Keokuk, Iowa Territory, to John Chambers, Burlington, Iowa Territory, 14 July 1843, in U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs . . . Iowa Superintendency, 1839–1849. Typescripts. National Archives Microfilm Publications, microcopy 234, reel 363. W ashington DC: National Archives, 1959.
The three Potawatomi chiefs were reportedly “dissatisfied with the white people bordering on their lands” and, having heard that JS could talk to the “Great Spirit,” came seeking his advice about how to deal with them. They also “wanted to know if Smith would give them any assistance in case of an outbreak on the frontier” and told him that “they had smoked the pipe with ten tribes who had agreed to defend each other to the last extremity.” JS replied that “he could give them no assistance, that his hands were tied by the U. S. but that he could sympathize with them” and advised them to “be friendly to the neighbouring tribes, and pray a great deal to the G[rea]t Spirit.” (Henry King, Keokuk, Iowa Territory, to John Chambers, Burlington, Iowa Territory, 14 July 1843, in U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs.)
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs . . . Iowa Superintendency, 1839–1849. Typescripts. National Archives Microfilm Publications, microcopy 234, reel 363. W ashington DC: National Archives, 1959.