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 the minutes of the Nauvoo Masonic lodge, JS did not attend the morning meeting of the lodge on this date. (Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book, 20 July 1843.)
Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book. / “Record of Na[u]voo Lodge Under Dispensation,” 1842–1846. CHL. MS 3436
On 30 January 1841, JS was elected sole trustee-in-trust for the church, with power “to receive acquire manage or convey property real personal or mixed for the sole use and benefit of said church” in compliance with Illinois law governing business transactions of trustees on behalf of religious corporations. JS made a certificate of the action on 2 February 1841, which was attested by Justice of the Peace Daniel H. Wells on 3 February 1841 and subsequently filed in the Hancock County recorder’s office. (Appointment, 2 Feb. 1841, Hancock Co., IL, Bonds and Mortgages, vol. 1, p. 95, microfilm 954,776, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; An Act concerning Religious Societies [6 Feb. 1835], Laws of the State of Illinois [1834–1835], pp. 147–149.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
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.
Granger was authorized to settle debts and other concerns of church leaders in Kirtland, Ohio, after JS moved to Missouri in 1838. (Certificate, JS to Oliver Granger, 6 May 1839, private possession, copy at CHL; Certificate, JS et al. to Oliver Granger, Commerce, IL, 13 May 1839, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 45–46; Recommendation for Oliver Granger, 1 Nov. 1839, private possession, copy at CHL.)
Smith, Joseph. Certificate, to Oliver Granger, 6 May 1839. Private possession. Copy at CHL. MS 18980.
Recommendation for Oliver Granger, 1 Nov. 1839. Private possession. Copy at CHL. MS 22086.
On 4 October 1841, a conference of the church resolved “that Elder Reuben Mc Bride be vested with power of attorney to go, settle, and if possible close a business concern left in an uncertain condition by Elder Oliver Granger,” who died in August 1841. McBride recalled receiving “a general power of att[orne]y to transact Business in the Estern and Middle States and more particularly Kirtland . . . and take charge of all the Church property in that place including the Temple.” The power of attorney was sent on 15 September 1843. (“Minutes of a Conference,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:579; Obituary for Oliver Granger, Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1841, 2:550; Reuben McBride, Statement, 12 Dec. 1853, CHL; JS, Journal, 15 Sept. 1843.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
McBride, Reuben, Sr. Statement, 12 Dec. 1853. CHL. MS 3171.
Sloan was appointed Nauvoo city recorder at the first meeting of the city council on 3 February 1841 and was reelected at the biennial election on 11 February 1843. He replaced the deceased Robert B. Thompson as “general church Clerk” on 2 October 1841. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 3 Feb. 1841, 1; 11 Feb. 1843, 159; “Minutes of a Conference,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:577.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The cancellation of this paragraph and the notation that the papers were delivered on 28 July indicate that the information should have been included in the previous day’s entry.
Clayton wrote that on this day he borrowed fifty dollars “of W. Bruster”—possibly William Brewster, who bought several pieces of land in and near Nauvoo in July 1843. (Clayton, Journal, 29 July 1843; Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 13, 19, and 21 July 1843, Vol. L, pp. 391–395, microfilm 954,599, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.