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.
In March, JS publicly accused Foster of publishing in the New York Weekly Tribune a negative letter about the Mormons in Nauvoo and then fined him when he disturbed the meeting by telling JS, “You shall hear from me.” In April, Foster pointed a gun at JS when JS and others tried to arrest him for refusing to help Nauvoo marshal John P. Greene arrest Augustine Spencer. (JS, Journal, 7 Mar. and 26 Apr. 1844.)
Probably William Richardson. (Gregg, History of Hancock County, 414–415; see also JS History, vol. F-1, 61.)
Gregg, Thomas. History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws. Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1880.
The trial was originally scheduled for the October 1844 term of the Hancock County Circuit Court. (Order to Issue Capias, 24 May 1844, State of Illinois v. JS for Perjury [Hancock Co. Cir. Ct. 1844], Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Docket Book, vol. D, p. 129, microfilm 947,496, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
Possibly William Withers, who had appeared in the Nauvoo mayor’s court in February 1844. (JS, Journal, 9 Feb. 1844.)