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.
JS responded to Butterfield by 19 March. (See JS, Journal, 19 Mar. 1843.)
In this letter, Bennet referred to the “peculiar distressed situation” about which JS had written him earlier—a reference, presumably, to John C. Bennett’s recent threats to have JS arrested on charges dating back to the Missouri conflict of 1838–1839. James Arlington Bennet recounted to JS the steps he had taken to thwart Bennett’s designs and assured JS that any effort to prosecute JS would be unsuccessful. Bennet also noted that John C. Bennett’s book attacking the Mormons was a failure, and he castigated New York Herald editor James Gordon Bennett, who continued to “make sport” of JS in the pages of his paper. JS responded two days after receiving the letter. (James Arlington Bennet, Arlington House, Long Island, NY, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 20 Feb. 1843, JS Materials, CCLA; JS, Journal, 18 Jan. and 17 Mar. 1843.)
Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, pp. 187–188; bk. B, pp. 42–43; Indenture, JS (Trustee-in-trust) to Lydia Dibble Granger, Hancock Co., IL, 15 Mar. 1843, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Nauvoo Registry of Deeds. Record of Deeds, bk. B, 1843–1846. CHL. MS 3443.
An announcement declared The Wasp was to be discontinued with the 19 April issue, its size doubled, and its title changed to Nauvoo Neighbor. The final issue of The Wasp was the 26 April 1843 issue, and the inaugural issue of the Nauvoo Neighbor, edited by John Taylor, appeared on 3 May 1843. Under the nameplate, the newspaper regularly printed the phrases approved by JS: “OUR MOTTO—THE SAINTS’ SINGULARITY—IS UNITY, LIBERTY, CHARITY.” The change of names may be partly attributable to the fact that James Arlington Bennet did not like The Wasp as a name for the paper. “Mildness should Characteris[e] every thing that comes from Nauvoo,” he wrote to JS, “& even a name . . . has much influence on one side or the other.” (“Prospectus of a Weekly Newspaper, Called the Nauvoo Neighbor,” The Wasp, 5 Apr. 1843, [1]; James Arlington Bennet, Arlington House, Long Island, NY, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 16 Aug. 1842, JS Materials, CCLA.)
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Rockwell was arrested in St. Louis in early March 1843 for the attempted murder of Missouri’s former governor Lilburn W. Boggs. Ultimately Rockwell was not indicted for shooting Boggs, but he was indicted for attempting to escape while the grand jury at Independence, Missouri, investigated the charges against him. The case was transferred to the Fifth Judicial Circuit with Austin A. King presiding as judge and Alexander Doniphan serving as Rockwell’s court-appointed attorney. The trial was held 11 December 1843; the jury convicted Rockwell of jailbreaking and sentenced him to five minutes’ imprisonment. Rockwell was released on 13 December and arrived in Nauvoo on 25 December 1843. (JS, Journal, 13 Mar. 1843; Smith, “Mormon Troubles in Missouri,” 249–251; and JS, Journal, 25 Dec. 1843.)
Smith, Heman C. “Mormon Troubles in Missouri.” Missouri Historical Review 4, no. 4 (July 1910): 238–251.
Haws’s sons Alpheus and Albert were seventeen and twelve years old, respectively. (Black, Early Members of the Reorganized Church, 3:376.)
Black, Susan Easton, comp. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 6 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993.