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.
On 16 September 1841, JS secured a bond from Erie Rhodes for 153½ acres and conveyed his full interest in the bond to William Clayton a month later. Rhodes died on 17 October 1841, prior to the execution of a deed. When Rhodes’s widow, Eunice Wright Rhodes, petitioned the Hancock County Circuit Court to assign her dower’s interest in her husband’s real estate, Clayton, through his solicitors, submitted a bill to the court requesting the bar of her dower’s right to the land in the bond. On 21 October 1843, the court barred Eunice Rhodes of her right of dower to this parcel of property—likely because the bond was paid in full by April 1842—and ordered the execution of a deed to Clayton. (Bond, 16 Sept. 1841, Hancock Co., IL, Bonds and Mortgages, 1840–1904, vol. 1, pp. 228–229, microfilm 954,776; Hancock Co., IL, Chancery Court Records, 1838–1924, vol. B, pp. 445–446, 449–451, microfilm 955,133, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
On 11 September 1843, the petition to obtain state arms was presented to JS, commanding officer of the Nauvoo Legion, for his signature. Phelps left Nauvoo on 24 October, in company with Jonathan Dunham, to take the petition to Governor Thomas Ford in Springfield. (JS, Journal, 11 Sept. and 24 Oct. 1843.)
Butterfield had represented JS in JS’s habeas corpus hearing in Springfield in January 1843. However, in his position as United States attorney for Illinois, Butterfield opposed JS’s petition for bankruptcy. Opposing the bankruptcy was apparently the chief purpose of Butterfield’s visit to Nauvoo. (JS, Journal, 2–5 Jan. 1843; 6 Oct. 1843.)
Hyrum and Mary Fielding Smith had six children living at the time.
Clayton was elected Nauvoo city treasurer on 11 February 1843. Hovey and Sleeper may have been charged five dollars as a flat fee to obtain a license allowing them to hold an auction or as a charge to use the municipal space for the auction. Though no city ordinance provided particulars on fees for licensing or renting space to auctioneers, the Nauvoo city charter granted the city council authority to “license, tax, and regulate auctions” and other retailers. A city ordinance passed on 12 July 1842 included a detailed list of percentages of auctioned goods and property that were required as payment to the city treasurer. (City Charter, sec. 12; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 12 July 1842, 88–93, secs. 6, 7; 11 Feb. 1843, 159.)