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.
William Clayton visited JS at home to discuss a deed from Levi Moffet, who lived in Augusta, Iowa Territory. JS told Clayton “to go to Augusta to get the Deed signed.” (Clayton, Journal, 8–9 Sept. 1843; JS, Journal, 9 Sept. 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Markham was on his way to attend the September term of the Lee County, Illinois, circuit court for an upcoming case involving JS; the papers he carried with him may have been generated in connection with JS’s habeas corpus hearing before the Nauvoo Municipal Court on 1 July 1843. The case to be heard in Lee County, JS v. Joseph H. Reynolds and Harmon T. Wilson, was initiated following JS’s arrest in Dixon in June 1843, when JS swore an affidavit against the arresting officers, Wilson and Reynolds, claiming damages of ten thousand dollars. Markham, who had been with JS at the time of his arrest, returned to Nauvoo and reported on the case on 23 September 1843. (JS, Journal, 1 July 1843; Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 55–87, 116–150; JS, Affidavit, 24 June 1843, copy, JS Collection, CHL; Shepherd Patrick, Declaration, [ca. 24 June 1843], copy; Shepherd Patrick, Praecipe for Summons, 25 June 1843, copy, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Journal, 23 June and 23 Sept. 1843.)
Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book / Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court. “Docket of the Municipal Court of the City of Nauvoo,” ca. 1843–1845. In Historian's Office, Historical Record Book, 1843–1874, pp. 51–150 and pp. 1–19 (second numbering). CHL. MS 3434.
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
The Nauvoo Legion consisted of two cohorts, the first made up of cavalry and the second of infantry. Each cohort was commanded by a brigadier general. According to the “Revised laws of the Nauvoo Legion,” passed on 8 July 1843, officers of each cohort were to hold an officer drill on the day preceding the cohort parade, which was to be held on the second Saturday in September. (Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 3 Feb. 1841, 2–3; 8 July 1843, 47.)
Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 1843–1844. Nauvoo Legion, Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3430, fd. 1.