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 noted in his journal that JS and “a gentleman from Quincy” came to Clayton’s house about seven o’clock requesting help in settling a promissory note from JS to Justin Butterfield amounting, with interest, to $496.34. Clayton recorded, “J. requested me to go immediately to his house to ascertain Butterfields Tavern Bill also amount which was paid to B[utterfield] last winter which however could not be found. The man settled the Tavern Bill.” (Clayton, Journal, 1 May 1844.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Miller had gone to the pine country in March 1844 with instructions to bring his family, Wight, and Wight’s family to Nauvoo, preparatory to possibly relocating the Black River lumber company from Wisconsin Territory to the Republic of Texas. (JS, Journal, 10 Mar. 1844; George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 27 June 1855, Northern Islander [St. James, MI], 23 Aug. 1855, [1]–[2]; 6 Sept. 1844, [3]–[4]; Wight, Address by Way of an Abridged Account, 5.)
Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.
Wight, Lyman. An Address by Way of an Abridged Account and Journal of My Life from February 1844 up to April 1848, with an Appeal to the Latter Day Saints. [Austin, TX], [ca. 1848].