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 letter, which had been solicited in July 1843, briefly described the history and doctrine of the church. It was published as a chapter in a book by Israel Daniel Rupp the following year. (JS, Journal, 7 Sept. 1843; JS, “Latter Day Saints,” in Rupp, He Pasa Ekklesia, 404–410.)
Rupp, Israel Daniel, ed. He Pasa Ekklesia [The Whole Church]: An Original History of the Religious Denominations at Present Existing in the United States, Contains Authentic Accounts of Their Rise, Progress, Statistics and Doctrines. Written Expressly for the Work by Eminent Theological Professors, Ministers, and Lay-Members, of the Respective Denominations. Projected, Compiled and Arranged by I. Daniel Rupp, of Lancaster, Pa. Philadelphia: J. Y. Humphreys; Harrisburg: Clyde and Williams, 1844.
On 29 July 1843, JS instructed that a power of attorney be sent to McBride in Kirtland, Ohio. A conference of the church on 4 October 1841 appointed McBride to replace the deceased Granger as agent of the church’s affairs in Kirtland and the eastern United States. (JS, Journal, 29 July 1843; “Minutes of a Conference,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:579; Obituary for Oliver Granger, Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1841, 2:550; Reuben McBride, Statement, 12 Dec. 1853, CHL.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
McBride, Reuben, Sr. Statement, 12 Dec. 1853. CHL. MS 3171.
TEXT: “Nauvoo Mansion.” is double underlined. JS and his family had moved from their “old house,” diagonally across the intersection of Water and Main streets, to the Nauvoo Mansion a few weeks earlier. On 3 October 1843, JS held a party at the new residence, celebrating the opening of the establishment as a hotel. (JS, Journal, 31 Aug. and 3 Oct. 1843.)
On 6 September 1843, a meeting of anti-Mormons convened at Carthage to hear resolutions, drafted by a committee that had been appointed on 19 August 1843, regarding the Latter-day Saints and JS. The committee charged that JS “has evinced, in many instances, a most shameless disregard for all the forms and restraints of Law: by boldly and presumptuously calling in question the acts of certain officers, who had fearlessly discharged the duties absolutely imposed upon them by the laws.” The committee also condemned JS’s 1 July 1843 discharge from arrest by the Nauvoo Municipal Court on a writ of habeas corpus and complained that “we have had men of the most vicious and abominable habits, imposed upon us, to fill our most important county offices, by his [JS’s] dictum . . . that he may the more certainly control our destinies, and render himself, through the instrumentality of these base creatures of his ill-directed power as absolutely a despot over the citizens of this county, as he now is, over the serfs of his own servile clan.” After airing similar grievances, the meeting’s participants resolved to resist all future “wrongs” imposed by the Saints “peaceably, if we can, but forcibly, if we must.” The gathering organized a central “corresponding committee” to communicate their views with other counties and formed eleven other committees in surrounding towns. Those gathered also assigned the president of the meeting to request that the governor of Missouri initiate another order for JS’s arrest and promised to provide services to enforce the order. In addition, they initiated a campaign among newspaper editors “friendly to the Anti-Mormon cause” in Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa Territory to publish the proceedings of the 6 September meeting. (JS, Journal, 19 Aug. 1843; “Great Meeting of Anti-Mormons!,” Warsaw [IL] Message, 13 Sept. 1843, [1]–[2].)
Warsaw Message. Warsaw, IL. 1843–1844.
According to the revised laws of the Nauvoo Legion, passed 8 July 1843, legion officers within ten miles of Nauvoo were to hold an officer drill on the day preceding the general, or legion, parade, which was to be held on the third Saturday in September. (Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 3 Feb. 1841, 2–3; 8 July 1843, 47–48.)
Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 1843–1844. Nauvoo Legion, Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3430, fd. 1.