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.
Possibly Mercy Fielding Thompson, widow of Robert B. Thompson. Alternatively, the name may refer to Hannah Greenwood Fielding, wife of Joseph Fielding.
TEXT: Transliteration from Taylor shorthand: “[vowel]-nn-t-d”. Brigham Young recorded that his wife Mary Ann was “admited in to the hiest orderes Preast hood” on this day. (Young, Journal, 1 Nov. 1843, 21.)
Young, Brigham. Journals, 1832–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1, boxes 71–73.
Southwick’s letter and two affidavits signed by several citizens of Dixon, all dated 29 July 1843, were published in the 8 November 1843 issue of the Nauvoo Neighbor. Southwick originally sent the letter and affidavits to the editors of the Warsaw Message after Harmon T. Wilson, one of the officers who arrested JS in Dixon on 23 June 1843, questioned the accuracy of a statement Southwick had published in the Warsaw Message regarding JS’s arrest and subsequent discharge in Nauvoo. Wilson reported that Southwick’s statement “contains two unqualified falsehoods—the first that [Joseph H.] Reynolds,” the other arresting officer, “refused counsel an opportunity of a private interview with Smith—and the second, that the mormons, who from time to time met the company, were unarmed.” Wilson also charged Southwick with having suppressed many other facts relative to the events he described, while giving others “a high coloring.” Southwick responded to Wilson’s charges with a letter to the editor, asking the editors to publish the accompanying affidavits, which supported his version of the two points Wilson had disputed, “in order that the public may no longer be deceived” and “that the charge of falsehood may attach where it properly belongs.” Neither Southwick’s letter nor the two affidavits were published in the Warsaw Message. (Edward Southwick, Dixon, IL, to the Editors of the Warsaw [IL] Message, 29 July 1843, JS Collection, CHL; John Dixon et al., Affidavit, Lee Co., IL, 29 July 1843; J. D. McComsay et al., Affidavit, [Lee Co., IL], 29 July 1843, JS Collection, CHL; Notice, 15 July 1843, Warsaw Message, 15 July 1843, [3]; “Statement,” Warsaw Message, 12 July 1843, [3] [republished in “Extra” of same date]; Statement, Nauvoo Neighbor, 8 Nov. 1843, [2]–[3].)
Warsaw Message. Warsaw, IL. 1843–1844.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.