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.
The ordinance “authorized and licensed” JS “to keep a Ferry for the term of perpetual succession across the Mississippi River” at Nauvoo. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1 June 1843, 175.)
Sloan, who was to receive a salary of one hundred dollars for his services as city recorder for the year 1842, made additional claims against the city for money he had spent on various items—including “rent, fuel, & Candles”—while performing his work. After some discussion, it was agreed that the “charge for rent fuel & Candles, & a further deduction of ten dollars, be taken off his claim.” The city council agreed to pay the balance of $147.40 “for business done by him for the City, in the year 1842.” (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 1 and 7 June 1843, 16–18; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1 June 1843, 176.)
JS assigned to Clayton his full interest in a bond Rhodes had made to JS on 16 September 1841. Although this conveyance was made on 1 June 1843, it was dated 11 October 1841. (JS, Assignment to William Clayton, Nauvoo, IL, [1 June 1843]; Bond, Erie Rhodes to JS, 16 Sept. 1841, Hancock Co., IL, Illinois Circuit Court, Chancery Court Records, 1838–1924, vol. B, pp. 444–445, 449–450, microfilm 955,133, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; see also Introduction to Clayton v. E. W. Rhodes et al.)