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.
The letter was signed “Horace,” rather than “Francis,” and was sent from Burlington, Iowa Territory. It informed JS that word had reached Burlington that Hickok was confined in the Nauvoo prison and that “five to Six hundred Armed men” were planning to travel to Nauvoo to liberate him. The letter’s author indicated that he was using the name “Horace” to obscure his identity, “for were it known here that I had given notice of their procedings,” he wrote, “it would be unsafe for me to remain.” Hickok, a physician from Burlington, had recently arrested Jeremiah Smith, whom the Nauvoo Municipal Court had released following a habeas corpus hearing. Hickok had argued that the hearing be adjourned and asked for a copy of the court’s proceedings after the decision was rendered, but nothing indicates that he was arrested or incarcerated at Nauvoo. No other information about an armed body of men traveling to Nauvoo from Burlington at this time has been located. Hickok had, however, traveled to Springfield, Illinois, apparently without notifying people in Burlington. In late June, the Burlington Hawk-Eye noted the rumors of Hickok’s disappearance but reassured its readers that “there is not a syllable of truth in the report that Dr. Hickok of this city was imprisoned, much less, that he was killed, at Nauvoo, as we have seen in some papers. The Dr. returned to B. some time since and is alive and well.” (“Horace,” Burlington, Iowa Territory, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 2 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Journal, 29 and 30 May 1844; Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 100–102; “Don’t Believe It,” Hawk-Eye and Iowa Patriot [Burlington], 27 June 1844, [2]; Luther Hickok, Springfield, IL, to JS or Willard Richards, Nauvoo, IL, 6 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
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.
Hawk-Eye and Iowa Patriot. Burlington, IA. 1839–1851.
Alderman George W. Harris was elected president pro tempore in JS’s place. (Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 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.
On 26 April 1844, the mayor’s court fined Augustine Spencer one hundred dollars for assaulting his brother Orson and fined Higbee and the Fosters one hundred dollars each for refusing to help arrest Spencer. All three appealed to the Nauvoo Municipal Court. In addition, Higbee also appealed a ten-dollar fine issued by Alderman Daniel H. Wells on 1 April 1844 for “indecent, abusive & threatening language toward City Marshal.” (JS, Journal, 1 and 26 Apr. 1844; Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 102–107.)
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.