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.
Earlier in the month, JS accepted an offer from Frierson to help the Saints petition Congress for redress for the losses they had suffered in Missouri. (Joseph L. Heywood, Quincy, IL, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 23 Oct. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Joseph L. Heywood, 2 Nov. 1843, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.)
A few days earlier, JS charged Sagers with trying to seduce Phebe Madison, “a yo[u]ng girl living at his [Sagers’s] house,” by suggesting that JS “tollerated Such things.” Sagers pled not guilty to the charge. The high council did not sustain the charge but stated that Sagers had apparently “taught false doctrine which was corrected by President Joseph Smith.” JS told those assembled that “the church had not received any license from him to commit adultery fornication or any such thing but to the contrary if any man commit adultery He could not receive the celestial kingdom or God even if he was saved in any kingdom it could not be the celestial kingdom He said he thought the many examples that had been manifest John C. Bennet & others was sufficient to show the fallacy of such a course of conduct, He condemned the principle in toto & warned those present against going into those evils, for they would shurely bring a Curse upon their heads.” A similar charge against Sagers surfaced the following April, at which time the high council decided it had already ruled on that issue and that it “had no right to deal with him on that item.” (Charges Preferred, JS to William Marks, 21 Nov. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 25 Nov. 1843 and 13 Apr. 1844; Woodruff, Journal, 25 Nov. 1843; see also Lucinda Sagers to “the Presidency and the Twelve,” no date, JS Collection, CHL.)
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
According to Wilford Woodruff, JS and the Twelve postponed meeting with Frierson because “it was late & we had not time during the evening.” (Woodruff, Journal, 25 Nov. 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.