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.
To prevent kidnapping, illegal arrests, and unlawful searches of property, this ordinance stated that all warrants originating outside of Nauvoo must receive the signature of the Nauvoo mayor before they could be served in the city. Anyone attempting to serve a warrant without complying with the ordinance would face a fine of up to one hundred dollars and imprisonment for up to six months. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 21 Dec. 1843, 197–198; “An Ordinance to prevent unlawful search or seizure,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 27 Dec. 1843, [3].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
JS proposed this memorial on 8 December 1843. The completed memorial requested that Congress grant Nauvoo all the powers and rights belonging to territories of the United States until the state of Missouri provided redress for the losses the Saints sustained there in the 1830s. The memorial also asked that the mayor of Nauvoo be authorized to call upon federal troops, when necessary, to help the Nauvoo Legion “repel the invasion of mobs, keep the public peace, and protect the innocent from the unhallowed ravages of lawless banditti that escape justice on the Western Frontier.” The city council signed the memorial on 12 February 1844. (JS, Journal, 8 Dec. 1843; Hyrum Smith et al., Memorial to U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 21 Dec. 1843, Record Group 46, Records of the U.S. Senate, National Archives, Washington DC; JS, Journal, 12 Feb. 1844.)
On 12 February 1844, the city council instructed Pratt to leave immediately for Washington DC with the memorial. (JS, Journal, 12 Feb. 1844.)
Greene was elected city marshal in place of Henry G. Sherwood, who was “expecting soon to leave the city.” Greene also replaced Sherwood as assessor and collector in the fourth municipal ward of Nauvoo. Greene filed his bonds in the recorder’s office and took his oaths as marshal, assessor, and collector the following day. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 21 Dec. 1843, 29; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 11 Nov. 1843, 190; 21 and 22 Dec. 1843, 198.)
Probably either James Holman or his brother Joshua Holman.
Beginning with its 31 May 1843 issue, the Nauvoo Neighbor ran a notice asking everyone who had “documents, facts, incidents, or other matter” relating to the history of the church to deliver them to JS’s office for use in JS’s history, which was being compiled by Willard Richards and William W. Phelps. (“Church History,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 31 May 1843, [4]; JS, Journal, 20 Jan. 1843.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.