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.
In August or September 1842, Drown allegedly enlisted Christian Upperman to plant a brass kettle in the stable of Lemuel Mallory. Drown then swore an affidavit accusing Mallory—to whom Drown apparently owed a debt—of theft, with the intent of having Mallory incarcerated at Carthage. Upperman gave the details of the event to Justice of the Peace Orson Spencer the following spring, on 10 April 1843. On 3 October 1843, Upperman made another affidavit attesting to the truthfulness of his April statement before Justice Leonard Harrington. The following day, 4 October, Almon Bathrick made a complaint before Harrington, charging Drown of having committed perjury by falsely testifying to obtain a search warrant to search Mallory’s property in fall 1842. On 10 October 1843, Drown petitioned the Nauvoo Municipal Court for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming unjust arrest and confinement by Hancock County constable Samuel Waterman and stating that his rights had been denied in a trial before Harrington on 9 October. The municipal court met for the hearing on 11, 13, and 17 October. Although Drown was discharged, he was assessed $24.37½ for court costs, which was never collected. (Christian Upperman, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 10 Apr. 1843; Christian Upperman, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 3 Oct. 1843; Almon Bathrick, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 4 Oct. 1843, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 87–88; Charles Drown, Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, 10 Oct. 1843; Nauvoo Municipal Court, Writ for Charles Drown, 10 Oct. 1843; Nauvoo Municipal Court, Summons for Orson Spencer et al., 10 Oct. 1843; Nauvoo Municipal Court, Execution v. Charles Drown, 15 Jan. 1844; Nauvoo Municipal Court, Execution v. Almon Bathrick, 7 May 1844, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; General Church Minutes, 10–17 Oct. 1843.)
Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book / Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court. “Docket of the Municipal Court of the City of Nauvoo,” ca. 1843–1845. In Historian's Office, Historical Record Book, 1843–1874, pp. 51–150 and pp. 1–19 (second numbering). CHL. MS 3434.