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.
The Macedonia branch had earlier petitioned that John Smith be appointed to this position, and Smith was informed of the decision to ordain him in a letter from JS dated 12 December. (JS, Journal, 12 Dec. 1843; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to John Smith, [Macedonia, IL], 12 Dec. 1843, copy, JS Collection, CHL.)
Probably Jason Sherman, a lawyer in Carthage. (Jacob B. Backenstos, “Names of Carthage Greys & Mobbers,” 1846, Historian’s Office, JS History Documents, ca. 1839–1860, CHL; Gregg, History of Hancock County, 418; “Preamble and Resolutions,” Warsaw [IL] Signal, 19 June 1844.)
Historian’s Office. Joseph Smith History Documents, 1839–1860. CHL. CR 100 396.
Gregg, Thomas. History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws. Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1880.
Warsaw Signal. Warsaw, IL. 1841–1853.
Probably Artois Hamilton, owner of a hotel in Carthage. (Gregg, History of Hancock County, 715.)
Gregg, Thomas. History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws. Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1880.
On 21 December 1843, the Nauvoo City Council passed “an Ordinance to prevent unlawful search or seizure of person or property by foreign process in the City of Nauvoo.” Designed to prevent kidnapping, illegal arrests, and unlawful searches, the ordinance stipulated that all warrants originating outside Nauvoo must receive the signature of the Nauvoo mayor before they could be served in the city. (JS, Journal, 21 Dec. 1843; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 21 Dec. 1843, 197–198.)
Over the past four days, Hancock County constable Horace Eldredge had made three attempts to arrest Milton Cook in Carthage on a precept from Nauvoo justice of the peace Robert D. Foster. Each time, residents from Carthage had either protected Cook from arrest or forced Eldredge to release him. Bachman, Sherman, and Hamilton told JS that Carthage residents felt the Nauvoo ordinance passed “to prevent unlawful search, or seizure of person or property by foreign process in the City of Nauvoo” was “designed to hinder the execution of the Statutes in the City, consequently they, the Old Citizens felt disposed to stop the execution of processes, issueing from the City, in the County.” The Carthage citizens also objected to the fact that Foster’s precept required Eldredge to bring Cook before Foster himself, even though the statute on the maintenance of illegitimate children—which Cook was charged with breaking—provided that the accused could be brought before a justice other than the one issuing the process. JS assured the Carthage delegation that the ordinance was designed only to “prevent kidnapping under the pretence of Law, or process, and to further the apprehension of thieves &c” in Nauvoo. He also pointed out that the state statute on illegitimate children actually did require the accused to be brought before the justice or justices issuing the process. That evening, the city council passed a clarifying amendment to the ordinance on searches and seizures by foreign process stating that “nothing in the foregoing ordinance shall be so construed as to prevent, hinder or thwart the designs of Justice, or to retard the civil officers of the State or County in the discharge of their official duties.” (JS, Journal, 6, 8, and 9 Jan. 1844; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 21 Dec. 1843, 197–198; 10 Jan. 1844, 199–200; Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 10 Jan. 1844, 40–41; An Act to Provide for the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children [23 July 1827], Laws of the State of Illinois [1834–1837], pp. 332–333.)
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 “Wilson House” was owned and operated by John Wilson, an early Hancock County settler who had arrived in Carthage Township from Kentucky in 1834. (Gregg, Record of Biographies and Obituaries of Hancock County Pioneers, no. 38, John Wilson; see also Gregg, History of Hancock County, 767.)
Gregg, Thomas. Record of Biographies and Obituaries of Hancock County Pioneers. Edited by John Wilson and Warren L. Van Dine. No date. Typescript. Carthage Public Library, Carthage, IL.
Gregg, Thomas. History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws. Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1880.