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.
Avery was indicted for allegedly stealing a horse from Joseph McCoy of Clark County, Missouri. He was discharged at a habeas corpus hearing in Waterloo before the Clark County Circuit Court. On 21 December, William W. Phelps wrote to Jules White, deputy sheriff of Clark County, arguing that Avery had been abducted across state lines without due process. Phelps also cited the revised statutes of Missouri to show that Missouri’s statute of limitations prohibited indictment of a felony charge more than three years after the fact. Either or both of these arguments may have been the basis for the decision to discharge Avery. (State of Missouri, Mittimus, 13 Nov. 1843, State of Missouri v. Philander Avery [Clark Co. Cir. Ct. 1844], Clark Co. Circuit Court, Kahoka, MO; Daniel Avery, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 28 Dec. 1843; William W. Phelps, Nauvoo, IL, to J. White, Waterloo, MO, 21 Dec. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL; see also JS, Journal, 5 Dec. 1843.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.