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.
TEXT: Possibly “resoluti[o]n”.
This meeting may have been prompted by an inaccurate report that “the Governor of Mo has issued another writ for President Joseph Smith & is about to make an appeal or demand of the Governor of Illinois.” At the meeting, Phelps, Cahoon, and Stout drafted resolutions in response to the “repeated unlawful demands by the State of Missouri for the body of General Joseph Smith” and the recent kidnappings of Illinois citizens, like Philander and Daniel Avery, to Missouri. Maintaining JS’s innocence of any crime committed in Missouri, the meeting participants asked Illinois governor Thomas Ford to “not issue any more writs against the said General Joseph Smith, or other Latter-Day Saints (unless they are guilty)” and to “take some lawful means and measures to regain the citizens that have been kidnapped by the Missourians.” They also asked the governor to “prevent the said Missourians and Government from committing further violence upon the citizens of Illinois.” (Woodruff, Journal, 7 Dec. 1843; Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 9 Dec. 1843, [1]; “Public Meeting,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 13 Dec. 1843, [1]; JS, Journal, 6 Dec. 1843; see also JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Thomas Ford, Springfield, IL, 6 Dec. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
In a letter dated 12 December 1843, Thomas Ford acknowledged receiving the meeting’s resolutions as well as a letter JS wrote to him on 6 December requesting instructions for dealing with the kidnappings of Philander and Daniel Avery. Ford instructed JS not to call out any portion of the Nauvoo Legion in the case and advised against anyone from Nauvoo trying to rescue those who had been kidnapped. He also argued that his powers in such cases were limited to making “a demand upon the Governor of Missouri for the surrender of the fugitives to be tried by the courts of this state” if “the guilty persons should be charged with . . . Kidnapping by indictment or affidavit duly certified.” Referencing a “new demand” that JS be delivered to Missouri, which Missouri governor Thomas Reynolds allegedly intended to make, Ford assured JS that he would take no steps “but such as the Const[it]ution and laws may require.” (Dellmore Chapman, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 6 Dec. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL; Thomas Ford, Springfield, IL, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 12 Dec. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Thomas Ford, Springfield, IL, 6 Dec. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
TEXT: “1000” is set off by two dots on each side of the number.