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.
In the morning, JS again started for the prairie with William Clayton, but illness forced him to return home. (Clayton, Journal, 1 Aug. 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Walker was the Whig candidate for the sixth congressional district seat in the upcoming election, to be held on 7 August 1843. His speech was a continuation of a response he had given to Joseph P. Hoge, the Democratic candidate for the same seat, on 29 July. In his 1 August speech, Walker referenced the help he had given JS after JS’s arrest in Dixon and “advocated all the federal whig measures.” Hoge spoke afterward and, according to one supporter, “completely demolished the whole superstructure erected by Mr. Walker.” (Pease, Illinois Election Returns, 1818–1848, xlv–xlvi, 140; “To the Editor of the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 2 Aug. 1843, [2]; see also “Official Returns,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 16 Aug. 1843, [2].)
Pease, Theodore Calvin, ed. Illinois Election Returns, 1818–1848. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Historical Library, 1923.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Hoge acknowledged, at least privately, a position his electoral adversary Walker had earlier espoused. On 30 June 1843, after his release from arrest at the conclusion of a habeus corpus hearing in the Nauvoo Municipal Court, JS boasted that he had “converted” Walker, one of his attorneys, to the use of habeas corpus in Nauvoo. State leaders and lawmakers had discussed and debated the Nauvoo Municipal Court’s right to issue writs of habeas corpus—as well as the court’s interpretation and use of that right— for some time. (JS, Journal, 30 June 1843.)
Illinois governor Thomas Ford had decided by 26 July 1843 that he would not attempt to rearrest JS on the writ he had issued on 17 June 1843. (Warrant for JS, 17 June 1843, copy, JS Collection, CHL; “Illinois and Missouri,” Times and Seasons, 15 Aug. 1843, 4:292–294.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
This note (duplicated in the next entry) possibly refers to William W. Phelps’s work with Willard Richards on JS’s history. Based on contemporary meanings of the word translate, Phelps may have been paraphrasing, interpreting, explaining, or altering something in the history. (Richards, Journal, 1 and 2 Aug. 1843; “Translate,” in Oxford English Dictionary, 18:409; “Translate,” in American Dictionary [1828].)
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Edited by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. 20 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit, I. the Origin, Affinities and Primary Signification of English Words, as far as They Have Been Ascertained. . . . Edited by Noah Webster. New York: S. Converse, 1828.
Probably Mason Brayman, whom Illinois governor Thomas Ford sent to Nauvoo as a “special agent” to gather facts about JS’s release after his arrest in Dixon. (Thomas Ford, Springfield, IL, to Mason Brayman, 3 July 1843, Illinois Governor’s Correspondence, 1816–1852, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; “Illinois and Missouri,” Times and Seasons, 15 Aug. 1843, 4:292.)
Illinois Governor’s Correspondence, 1816–1852. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Either circuit court clerk Jacob B. Backenstos or Hancock County sheriff William Backenstos. (Gregg, History of Hancock County, 240, 283.)
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.
Illinois governor Thomas Ford was in St. Louis at the time. JS, Mason Brayman, and others had been under the impression that Joseph H. Reynolds kept Ford’s 17 June 1843 writ for JS’s arrest after JS was discharged by the Nauvoo Municipal Court on a writ of habeas corpus and that Reynolds “would make it the pretext of another attempt to seize” JS. In his letter, Brayman reported that the writ actually had been returned to Ford and that it was “in his hands—dead.” Brayman also told JS that the affidavits JS had sent Ford “so clearly establish the fact that you are not a fugitive from the justice of Missouri . . . that he [Ford] will not, in my opinion, find the least difficulty in refusing to issue another warrant, should an hundred be demanded.” (Mason Brayman, Springfield, IL, to [JS], [Nauvoo, IL], 29 July 1843, CCLA, underlining in original.)