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.
JS “gave notice” of this special conference on 24 September 1843. (“Minutes of a Conference,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:578; JS, Journal, 24 Sept. 1843.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
At a meeting held on 13 August 1843 in Nauvoo, JS told assembled church members that he had evidence that Rigdon had agreed to betray him into the hands of the Missourians. Those present voted to disfellowship Rigdon and to take away his license on condition that the report was true. Rigdon’s case was discussed again on 27 August. (JS, Journal, 13 and 27 Aug. 1843.)
In May and June 1839, Oliver Granger and Vinson Knight, agents for JS as the legal “trustee- in-trust” for the church, purchased from Isaac Galland almost eighteen thousand acres of land in the Half-Breed Tract in Iowa Territory. Butterfield, United States attorney for Illinois, had arrived in Nauvoo two days earlier. Butterfield was opposing JS’s application for bankruptcy, believing JS had more assets, particularly land, than he had disclosed in his petition. (JS, Journal, 4 Oct. 1843; Oaks and Bentley, “Joseph Smith and Legal Process,” 740–741, 756–763; “Keokuk,” Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:24; Lee Co., IA, Land Records, 1836–1961, vol. 1, pp. 507–509, 29 May 1839, microfilm 959,238; vol. 2, pp. 3–6, 13–16, 26 June 1839, microfilm 959,239, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; see also Cook, “Isaac Galland,” 271–274.)
Oaks, Dallin H., and Joseph I. Bentley. “Joseph Smith and Legal Process: In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo.” Brigham Young University Law Review, no. 3 (1976): 735–782.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.