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 his journal, Clayton recorded what may have been a related incident: “Hyrum & I rode up to my house & J met Mrs Wdth and F and conversed some time.” These two individuals with whom JS met were probably Phebe Watrous Woodworth and Flora Woodworth, daughter of Phebe and Lucien Woodworth. JS married Flora Woodworth as a plural wife sometime in early 1843. (Clayton, Journal, 26 Aug. 1843; William Clayton, Affidavit, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 16 Feb. 1874, p. [7], Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, CHL; Helen Mar Whitney, “Travels beyond the Mississippi,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Nov. 1884, 13:87.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Smith, Joseph F. Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915. CHL. MS 3423.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
Captain Black Hawk had been an alias for Jonathan Dunham since at least 1838. Dunham left Nauvoo on 14 July 1843 on an expedition to the Potawatomi Indians living near the Missouri River in the vicinity of Council Bluffs, Iowa Territory. According to his journal, Dunham returned to Nauvoo on 26 August 1843. The exact purpose of Dunham’s expedition is unknown, though a delegation of Potawatomi chiefs had visited Nauvoo earlier in the year seeking advice from JS on how to deal with settlers living near their land. (Document Containing the Correspondence, 119; Dunham, Journal, 14 July–26 Aug. 1843; JS, Journal, 18 Apr. 1843; Henry King, Keokuk, Iowa Territory, to John Chambers, Burlington, Iowa Territory, 14 July 1843, Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs.)
Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders, &c., in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons; and the Evidence Given before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, at the Court-House in Richmond, in a Criminal Court of Inquiry, Begun November 12, 1838, on the Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr., and Others, for High Treason and Other Crimes against the State. Fayette, MO: Boon’s Lick Democrat, 1841.
Dunham, Jonathan. Journals, 1837–1846. Jonathan Dunham, Papers, 1825–1846. CHL. MS 1387, fds. 1–4.
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs . . . Iowa Superintendency, 1839–1849. Typescripts. National Archives Microfilm Publications, microcopy 234, reel 363. W ashington DC: National Archives, 1959.
On 15 March 1843, JS deeded to Granger the west half of Nauvoo block 161, lot 1, which was located immediately west of Dimick B. Huntington’s residence on the southwest corner of Durphy and Lumber streets. Robert D. Foster, as justice of the peace, certified the indenture on 6 July 1843. (JS, Journal, 15 Mar. 1843; Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, pp. 187–188; Indenture, JS [Trustee-in-trust] to Lydia Dibble Granger, Hancock Co., IL, 15 Mar. 1843, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.)