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.
According to the conference minutes kept by William Clayton, Daniel Russell stated that he had not known there were church funds in the money bag and that he had spent all of the money. (General Church Minutes, 6 Apr. 1843; compare “Special Conference,” Times and Seasons, 1 May 1843, 4:182; and JS History, vol. D-1, 1514–1515.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The published minutes of the conference clarify that Samuel Russell spoke up from the congregation and stated that his brother was not out of money and that his brother still had the twenty dollars that had been donated to the church, along with some dried fruit that had been sent along for the president. (“Special Conference,” Times and Seasons, 1 May 1843, 182; JS History, vol. D-1, 1514–1515.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
An idiom meaning “to pass over or disregard a person.” JS’s point was that people donating money to the temple should not bypass him, as trustee-in-trust for the church, by giving funds directly to the temple committee. In December 1841 JS had made a similar point, forbidding the temple committee from receiving funds for building the temple unless those funds were directed to JS and recorded by the temple recorder. (“Nose,” in Oxford English Dictionary, 7:216; JS, Journal, 11, 13 Dec. 1841.)
The Oxford English Dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, W. A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions. 12 vols. 1933. Reprint, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.
The “incorporation” to which JS is referring is a reference to his compliance with an Illinois statute authorizing religious societies to elect or appoint a trustee or trustees to hold property for the society. Following the procedure outlined in the statute, a special conference of the church elected JS “sole Trustee in Trust for the Church” on 30 January 1841. JS made a certificate of the action on 2 February 1841, which was attested by Justice of the Peace Daniel H. Wells on 3 February 1841 and subsequently filed in the Hancock County recorder’s office. (An Act concerning Religious Societies [6 Feb. 1835], Laws of the State of Illinois [1834–1835], pp. 147–149; Appointment, 2 Feb. 1841, copy, JS Collection, CHL.)
Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835. Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835.