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.
Patrick sent Hall’s letter to “shew something of the state of public feeling” in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, after JS was discharged from arrest on 1 July 1843 and to inform JS of “an anti-Mormon party springing up” in Lee County, Illinois, where JS was arrested on 23 June 1843. In his letter to Patrick, Hall criticized the Nauvoo Municipal Court’s use of habeas corpus to discharge JS on 1 July, as well as Illinois governor Thomas Ford’s acceptance of the court’s decision. “If Illinois by her own authority cannot capture the prophet,” Hall threatened, “it will be but a small matter to raise volunteers enough here to raze the city of Nauvoo to the ground.” Hall also reported that “there is not a man in this community” who did not think Orrin Porter Rockwell was guilty of attempting to assassinate former Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs and that if Rockwell—who was awaiting trial in Independence—should be “discharged upon trial the power of man cannot save him.” (Shepherd Patrick, Dixon, IL, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 11 Aug. 1843, copy; J. Hall, Independence, MO, to [Shepherd Patrick], [Dixon, IL], 23 July 1843, copy, JS Collection, CHL; also published in J. Hall, “My Dear Old Friend,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 23 Aug. 1843, [2].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
In his remarks to Ford, JS noted that while “the ‘mormons’ are not very apprehensive that a company of Missouri ‘volunteers’ will come to ‘raze Nauvoo to the ground’ for some time,” he wanted to give Ford “the privilege of seeing and knowing for himself . . . the feelings of a part of Missouri.” JS also told Ford that “when any danger actually threatens, if your Excellency send the necessary order, we will endeavor to defend the honor of the governor, of the state, and of Nauvoo, according to the law of the land.” (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Thomas Ford, Springfield, IL, 21 Aug. 1843, copy, JS Collection, CHL.)
During the morning, JS rode out with a Mr. Moore. (Clayton, Journal, 21 Aug. 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
On 15 February 1841, the Nauvoo City Council passed “An Ordinance in Relation to Temperance,” which prohibited the vending of small quantities of whiskey and other distilled liquors. The ordinance stated that any person found guilty of an act contrary to the ordinance “shall, on conviction . . . be fined in any Sum not exceeding twenty five Dollars, at the discretion” of the mayor or presiding justice of the peace. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 15 Feb. 1841, 8.)