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.
George Anderson served as captain of the Osprey, a steamboat that regularly ran between St. Louis and Bloomington, Iowa Territory. (Green’s Saint Louis Directory for 1845, 12; “Osprey,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [4].)
Green, James. Green’s Saint Louis Directory (No. 1) for 1845: Containing the Names of the Inhabitants, Their Occupations, Places of Business, and Dwelling Houses; Also, a List of Streets and Avenues; Together With Other Useful Information, and an Advertisement Directory. Saint Louis: By the author, 1844.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
TEXT: Possibly “men”.
Probably William Rollosson. (JS, Journal, 30 Mar. and 27 May 1844.)
TEXT: Possibly “hea[r]d”.
Ianthus and Tallman Rolfe were the teenage sons of Samuel Rolfe, president of the Nauvoo priests quorum. According to another set of notes Richards made, Tallman made the threat about the city, while Ianthus said that “before 3 weeks the Mansion House would be strung to the ground.” (Richards, Minutes Concerning Threats, 11 June 1844, Historian’s Office, JS History Documents, ca. 1839–1860, CHL.)
Historian’s Office. Joseph Smith History Documents, 1839–1860. CHL. CR 100 396.
Fearing retaliation for publishing the Nauvoo Expositor, the families of William Law, Wilson Law, and Robert D. Foster “commenced packing” their possessions on this day and, with two other families, left Nauvoo for Burlington, Iowa Territory, the following day. On 11 June, Foster and Wilson Law each sold two town parcels in Nauvoo. Wilson Law sold his home and the Laws’ mill on 19 June 1844, and William Law sold his home in June 1845. The Lee County Democrat noted that a steamboat called the New Purchase “arrived here on Wednesday evening last from Nauvoo, bringing on board a large number of the dissenters with their families and their goods. . . . Most of them went to Burlington the same evening.” (Law, Record of Doings, 11 and 12 June 1844, in Cook, William Law, 56; “Outrage at Nauvoo,” Lee County [Iowa Territory] Democrat, 15 June 1844, [2]; Black et al., Property Transactions, 2:1371–1372; 3:1819, 1997–1999; 4:2349–2351, 2355–2358.)
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.
Lee County Democrat. Fort Madison, Iowa Territory. 1841–1847.
Black, Susan Easton, Harvey Bischoff Black, and Brandon Plewe. Property Transactions in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois and Surrounding Communities (1839–1859). 7 vols. Wilmington, DE: World Vital Records, 2006.