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.
According to Neibaur, on this day JS told him about his first vision of Deity and explained that Jane Silverthorn Law had asked to be sealed to him, JS, after he had refused to seal her to her husband, William Law, because William was an “adulterous person.” (Neibaur, Journal, 24 May 1844; JS, Journal, 18 Apr. 1844.)
Neibaur, Alexander. Journal, 1841–1862. CHL. MS 1674.
According to the compilers of JS’s history, Whitney was chosen to preside at the court. However, the Nauvoo Municipal Court docket book indicates that JS, not Whitney, presided at the sessions held on 16 and 30 May. (JS History, vol. F-1, 52; Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 97, 100.)
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.
The court had adjourned on 16 May 1844 to give Chauncey L. Higbee and Thomas Johnson an opportunity to obtain witnesses against Jeremiah Smith in Smith’s habeas corpus hearing. The court adjourned again on 23 May because only a minority of the justices was present. When it met again on 30 May, the court ordered Smith to be discharged from arrest. (JS, Journal, 16 and 30 May 1844; Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 97, 100–102.)
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.
Earlier draft notes for the following account of JS’s meeting with Indians are found in Appendix 5.