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.
A possible reference to Lord Kirkpatrick, who appears in Sir Walter Scott’s poem “The Lord of the Isles” as an ally of Robert Bruce in the Scottish war for independence. JS donated five volumes of Scott’s poems to the Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute. (Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute Record, 17 Apr. 1844; see also Jones, “Complete Record of the Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute,” 180–204.)
Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute Record, Jan.–June 1844. CHL. MS 3431.
Jones, Christopher C. “The Complete Record of the Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute.” Mormon Historical Studies 10, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 180–204.
Wilford Woodruff clarified this passage in his own account of this sermon: “We will rise up Washington like & break of[f] the wait that bears us down & we will not be mob[b]ed.” (Woodruff, Journal, 30 June 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
JS was in Dixon on 21 June 1843, two days before he was arrested at the home of Benjamin and Elizabeth Hale Wasson. Having been warned by William Clayton and Stephen Markham of a possible arrest attempt, he spent 22 June at the Wassons’. (Clayton, Journal, 18 and 21–22 June 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
TEXT: Possibly “have”.
The indictment leading to JS’s arrest in Dixon was handed down by Missouri’s Daviess County Circuit Court. (Indictment, June 1843, State of Missouri v. JS for Treason [Daviess Co. Cir. Ct. 1843], Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.)