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.
Ten days earlier, JS spoke against the idea of members of a community holding their property in common. (JS, Journal, 14 Sept. 1843.)
Obtaining “the arch stones of the windows” was one of the builders’ most pressing needs in June 1843. According to William Clayton, by the beginning of the 1843–1844 winter, the temple’s stone walls were “as high as the arches of the first tier of windows all around.” (JS, Journal, 11 June 1843; Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 40–41.)
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
The conference was not termed a “general” conference because JS announced in October 1841 that there would not be another general conference of the church until the completion of the Nauvoo temple. (“Minutes of a Conference,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:578; “Conference Minutes” and “First Meeting in the Temple,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1845, 6:1008–1016, 1017–1018.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Possibly Priestly Haggin McBride, who served as circuit court judge of Monroe County, Missouri, from 1836 to 1844. (History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri, 194, 207–208.)
History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri, Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources. . . . St. Louis: National Historical Co., 1884.
The Nauvoo High Priests Quorum Record lists three men as being ordained to the office of high priest on 24 September 1843: Roswell Stevens, Theodore Turley, and Dimick B. Huntington. Huntington later wrote a reminiscence listing 25 September 1843 as the date he was “ordained a high priest under the hand of president Geo Miller.” (“Names of Members of the High Priests Quorum organized at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, April 7th, 1840,” Nauvoo High Priests Quorum Record, 24 Sept. 1843; Huntington, Reminiscences and Journal, [23].)
Nauvoo High Priests Quorum. Record, 1840–1891. CHL. CR 1000 2.
Huntington, Dimick B. Reminiscences and Journal, 1845–1847. Dimick B. Huntington, Journal, 1845–1859. CHL. MS 1419, fd. 1.