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.
Probably Daniel Repsher, who had worked as a sailor as a teenager and joined the church in October 1843. Repsher assumed command of the Maid of Iowa on 11 May 1844. The Maid of Iowa returned to Nauvoo on 21 May 1844. (Seventies Quorum Records, Biographies, 17A, 1:1; Clayton, Journal, 11 and 12 May 1844; JS, Journal, 21 May 1844; Historian’s Office, Journal, 21 May 1844, 1:13.)
Record of Seventies / First Council of the Seventy. “Book of Records,” 1837–1843. Bk. A. In First Council of the Seventy, Records, 1837–1885. CHL. CR 3 51, box 1, fd. 1.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
The previous day, Willard Richards told Bullock that he was “to take charge of the Maid of Iowa as Clerk.” William Clayton, who had served as the boat’s clerk on some trips since September 1843, instructed Bullock in his duties. Clayton also noted that Repsher asked JS to let him serve as the clerk on this trip but that JS “would not consent to it.” (Historian’s Office, Journal, 13 May 1844, 1:12; JS, Journal, 21 Sept. 1843; Clayton, Journal, 14 May 1844.)
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
The following month, a notice in the Nauvoo Expositor identified a “New Brick Store of S. M. Marr, on Knight Street, east of the Temple.” (“Administrator’s Sale,” Nauvoo Expositor, 7 June 1844, [3].)
John Reed defended JS in trials in Chenango and Broome counties, New York, in 1830 and was accepted as a delegate from Chemung County, New York, at the state convention held in Nauvoo on 17 May 1844 to nominate JS as a candidate for United States president. Reed’s speech was probably similar to the one he gave three days later at the convention, where he spoke about the persecution JS had suffered in New York and the two trials in which he had defended JS in 1830. (JS History Drafts, 1838–ca. 1841; “State Convention,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 22 May 1844, [2]; “Some of the Remarks of John S. Reed,” Times and Seasons, 1 June 1844, 5:549–552.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
According to William Clayton, JS “related some of the proceedings of the apostates in Nauvoo.” Sarah Pea Rich noted that “the prophet spoke with power concerning his present persicution and shewed forth the caractor of the Laws.” (Clayton, Journal, 14 May 1844; Rich, Journal, 14 May 1844.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Rich, Sarah Pea. Autobiography, 1885–1893. 2 vols. Sarah Pea Rich, Autobiography and Journal, 1884–1893. CHL. MS 1543.
Probably Mary Woodworth, who was about six years old. (1850 U.S. Census, District 21, Pottawattamie Co., IA, 83[B].)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
On this day, Willard Richards noted that he spent time “initiating Lyman Wight.— on Quorum.” (Richards, Journal, 14 May 1844.)
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.