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 Nauvoo city charter, passed by the Illinois state legislature on 16 December 1840, gave the Nauvoo Municipal Court authority to “grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases arising under the ordinances of the City Council.” (An Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 Dec. 1840, sec. 17.)
Half a year after JS’s death, the Illinois Senate passed a bill, on 19 December 1844, to repeal Nauvoo’s charter, and on 24 January 1845 the Illinois House of Representatives approved the bill. (Journal of the Senate . . . of the State of Illinois [1844], 19 Dec. 1844, p. 80; Journal of the House of Representatives . . . of the State of Illinois, 24 Jan. 1845, p. 276.)
Journal of the Senate of the Thirteenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Regular Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 5, 1842. Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1842.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Thirteenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Regular Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 5, 1842. Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1842.
Shepherd Patrick, Edward Southwick, Harmon Wasson, and Cyrus Walker provided JS with legal counsel during the June–July 1843 attempt to extradite him to Missouri and habeas corpus hearing. (JS History, vol. E-1, 1652–1653.)
Warrant for JS, 17 June 1843, copy, JS Collection, CHL.