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.
During the winter of 1829–1830, several members of Rigdon’s reformed Baptist congregation moved onto Isaac Morley’s farm near Kirtland, Ohio, and attempted to live as a community where all property was held in common. Many had been, or continued to be, associated with Campbell’s movement, although Campbell himself opposed communal living. Comprising some fifty or sixty individuals in about a dozen families, the community at Morley’s farm suffered “confusion and disappointments” because “they considered from reading the scripture that what belonged to a brother belonged to any of the brethren, therefore they would take each others clothes and other property and use it without leave.” Following Rigdon’s 1830 baptism by Mormon missionaries, most members of the community were also baptized into the Church of Christ. In February 1831, a JS revelation effectively ended the community. (Staker, Hearken, O Ye People, 43–47, 108–109; Whitmer, History, 11.)
Staker, Mark L. Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2009.
See Isaiah 40:3; and Matthew 3:3.
Finch reported that “we kept up the discussion from two till seven o’clock in the evening on Community.” (Finch, “Notes of Travel in the United States,” [1].)
Finch, John. “Notes of Travel in the United States.” In Labor Movement, 1840–1860, edited by John R. Commons, 47–71. Vol. 7 of A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, edited by John R. Commons, Ulrich B. Phillips, Eugene A. Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews. Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1910.