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.
Bennet was appointed inspector general of the Nauvoo Legion, with the rank of major general, on 12 April 1842. In a letter dated 10 April 1843, responding to both JS’s letter of 17 March and Willard Richards’s letter of 19 March, Bennet stated that he had intended to come to the legion parade to be held on 6 May but that illness prevented him from making the trip. (Certificate, Moses Anderson to James Arlington Bennet, Springfield, IL, 30 Apr. 1842, Thomas Carlin, Correspondence, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; James Arlington Bennet, Arlington House, Long Island, NY, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 10 Apr. 1843, JS Materials, CCLA; JS, Journal, 6 May 1843.)
Carlin, Thomas. Correspondence, 1838–1842. In Office of the Governor, Records, 1818–1989. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Possibly James Woods, an attorney from Iowa Territory. (“At the Request of the Friends,” Times and Seasons, 1 July 1844, 5:563–564; see also Black, “Esquire James Weston Woods,” 113–122.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Black, Susan Easton. “Esquire James Weston Woods: Legal Counsel to Joseph Smith.” Mormon Historical Studies 4 (Fall 2003): 113–122.
The deed to Carlos Granger has not been located. However, Robinson wrote a letter to JS a week earlier explaining that he wanted Granger “to have all the land he has payed for” and that he had left a deed to that land with Sidney Rigdon for Rigdon to give to Granger. (George W. Robinson, La Harpe, IL, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 26 Apr. 1843, JS Collection, CHL.)