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 his affidavit, Truman Gillet Jr. testified that “on or about the first day of June 1842, while passing up the Ohio River on Steemboat Massachusets,” he overheard a Missourian tell another man, “If Law could have succeeded in getting an introduction for us to ‘Jo’ Smith . . . we would have gagged him, or nabbed him.” Conversing with the Missourian the following day, Gillet learned that he and “some twelve or fourteen other men” had stopped in Nauvoo and enlisted Law’s help in getting an introduction to JS but that they had been stopped by the police. According to Gillet, the Missourian insisted that Law was aware of their plan to kidnap JS at the time. (Truman Gillet Jr., Affidavit, Nauvoo, IL, 18 June 1844, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
JS received a letter from Hugins the previous day, informing him that Jeremiah Smith had arrived safely in Burlington, Iowa Territory. Hugins’s letter also noted that he and Hickok had successfully prevented Thomas Johnson from getting an indictment against members of the Nauvoo Municipal Court for discharging Smith from arrest on a writ of habeas corpus. In his letter, which JS asked Hugins to show to Hickok, JS thanked Hugins for his help in the Jeremiah Smith affair and, after noting the recent threats against Nauvoo, asked Hugins to use his influence in favor of the Mormons. (Henry T. Hugins, Burlington, Iowa Territory, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 17 June 1844; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Henry T. Hugins, Burlington, Iowa Territory, 18 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
Probably J. R. Wakefield from New York City. (JS, Journal, 14 June 1844.)
Illinois governor Thomas Ford.
The Warsaw Signal reported two days later that about three hundred men in Carthage were “ready for action.” Thomas Geddes, colonel of the eighty-third regiment in the Illinois militia, noted that he had ordered the thirty-seven men of the Fountain Green Rifle Company to report to Carthage on 17 June 1844. (News Item, 20 June 1844, in Warsaw [IL] Signal, 19 June 1844, [2]; Thomas Geddes, Certificate, 25 Jan. 1849; Fountain Green Rifle Company Roll, 25 Jan. 1849, Fountain Green Vertical File, Hancock County Historical Society, Carthage, IL.)
Warsaw Signal. Warsaw, IL. 1841–1853.
Fountain Green Vertical File, Hancock County Historical Society. Carthage, IL
Probably Henry Norton, who later accused Hyrum Smith of treason. (Richards, Journal, 25 June 1844.)