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.
Roundy left Nauvoo four days earlier to carry to Illinois governor Thomas Ford in Springfield affidavits signed by those who had testified at JS’s habeas corpus hearing on 1 July 1843. (JS, Journal, 9 July 1843.)
William Clayton recorded in his journal entry for this date: “This A.M. J. sent for me. & when I arrived he called me up into his private room with E[mma Smith] and there stated an agreement they had mutually entered into They both stated their feelings on many subjects & wept considerable. O may the Lord soften her heart that she may be willing to keep and abide by his Holy Law.” Clayton’s entry for the previous day described Emma’s negative response to the revelation on eternal and plural marriage, suggesting that at least part of the day’s conversation between JS and Emma dealt with the revelation. The conversation may also have related to extensive tracts of land in the heart of Nauvoo that JS had deeded to Emma and their children the day before. Entries in Trustees Land Book B indicate that on 12 July 1843, JS deeded thirty-nine lots from the White Purchase and twenty lots from the Galland Purchase to “Emma Smith & others.” (Clayton, Journal, 12 and 13 July 1843; JS, Journal, 12 July 1843; Trustees Land Book B, White Purchase, 241–244, 246, 249, 251, 259–261, 265; Galland Purchase, 267–271, 273.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Probably either Moses Wilson, who had been involved with the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, or John Wilson, who had been a Whig candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1838. (“Joseph Smith, the Prophet,” Historical Record, Jan. 1888, 7:351; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 8, 12, 51, 70, 137–138, 140, 152, 160; JS, Journal, 5 May 1838.)
The Historical Record, a Monthly Periodical, Devoted Exclusively to Historical, Biographical, Chronological and Statistical Matters. Salt Lake City. 1882–1890.
Baugh, Alexander L. “A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1996. Also available as A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).