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.
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Cowles charged Adams with “Unchristian Conduct” generally and specifically with adultery, breach of covenant, lying, and slandering and “for putting the stumbling Block of his Iniquity Before his face and Raising an Image of Jealousy and Causing people to worship it.” At least some of the charges appear to have stemmed from earlier allegations that Adams had committed adultery while he was proselytizing in the East in 1842, accusations which had been resolved in May 1843. Responding to Cowles’s charges, Adams “plead not guilty and read a document from the first Presidency and objected to any thing being brought up previous to the date thereof.” The high council agreed, and the charges were not sustained. Later, a notice was drawn up and published in the Times and Seasons certifying that Adams had been “honorably acquitted by the High Council in Nauvoo, from all charges heretofore preferred against him from any and all sources.” (“A Cowles V. S. G J Adams,” 1843, Nauvoo High Council Papers, CHL; George J. Adams to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 11 Oct. 1842, JS Collection, CHL; George J. Adams, Boston, MA, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 23 Feb. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 27 May 1843; Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1 and 7 Sept. 1843; “To Whom It May Concern,” Times and Seasons, 15 Aug. 1843, 4:303.)
Nauvoo High Council Papers, 1839–1844. CHL. LR 3102 23.
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.