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.
Miller returned to Nauvoo from his second trip to the pineries in 1843 on 8 July. Wight had been on a mission in the East to collect tithing from church members living there and to sell stock in the Nauvoo House. He returned to Nauvoo prior to Miller’s arrival. The company that left for the pineries on the Maid of Iowa included “a number of widows and children” who were to be employed in “cooking, washing and mending for the men, and making their clothes.” Miller later reported that the group arrived at the lumber mills in August. (JS, Journal, 8 July 1843; George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 26 June 1855, Northern Islander [St. James, MI], 16 Aug. 1855, [3]; George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 27 June 1855, Northern Islander, 23 Aug. 1855, [1].)
Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.