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.
According to Wilford Woodruff’s journal, Samuel Smith “received his first anointing” and those in attendance “received good instruction.” (Woodruff, Journal, 17 Dec. 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Follett was one of many constables in Hancock County. Illinois law required that each county be divided into two to eight districts, with two constables elected in each district, except the district in which the county seat resided, in which four constables could be elected. Thus, each county could have up to eighteen elected constables at any given time. (An Act to Provide for the Election of Justices of the Peace and Constables [30 Dec. 1826], Laws of the State of Illinois [1834–1837], pp. 399–402, secs. 2, 4, 11; An Act to Amend an Act, Entitled, “An Act to Provide for the Election of Justices of the Peace and Constables” [13 Jan. 1829], Laws of the State of Illinois [1834–1837], pp. 417–418, secs. 1, 2, 7.)
Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835. Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835.
The arrest warrant for Elliot issued by Justice of the Peace Johnson was apparently based on the affidavit of Sisson Chase given to Johnson on 11 December 1843, which identified Elliot’s role in the capture of Avery on 2 December. (Sisson A. Chase, Affidavit, 11 Dec. 1843, in “Kidnapping,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Dec. 1843, [2]; JS, Journal, 5 Dec. 1843.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Usually referred to as the “upper stone house,” this tavern was located on the shore of the Mississippi River, between Brattle and Samuel streets, near Nauvoo’s upper landing, which was sometimes called the “upper stone house landing.” (See Littlefield, Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints, 145; Franklin D. Richards, “Visit to Pueblo, Independence, Carthage, Nauvoo, Richmond, Etc.,” LDS Millennial Star, 27 July 1885, 47:471; Wight, Reminiscences, 18–19.)
Littlefield, Lyman Omer. Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints: Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience. Logan, UT: Utah Journal Co., 1888.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Wight, Orange L. Reminiscences, May–Dec. 1903. Photocopy. CHL. MS 405.