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.
Tithing for the Nauvoo temple was defined as “one tenth of all any one possessed at the commencement of the building, and one tenth part of all his increase from that time till the completion of the same, whether it be money or whatever he may be blessed with.” (Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:626.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Cahoon was a member of the temple committee, which oversaw the construction of the Nauvoo temple and gave receipts to those who made donations for building the temple. As temple recorder, William Clayton was responsible for recording tithing and other donations made to the church—generally to be used for funding the construction of the temple—in the large ledger book titled “The Book of the Law of the Lord” and, later, in successor volumes. These donations were also concurrently recorded in the temple committee’s “Tithing Daybooks.” The daybook covering this period, which would have been labeled “Tithing Day Book A” and would have been a companion volume to the Book of the Law of the Lord, has not been located. (Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 30–31; Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:625–627; Book of the Law of the Lord, CHL; Trustee-in-trust, “Tithing Day Book B,” 1842–1844, Tithing Daybooks, CHL.)
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Tithing and Donation Record, 1844–1846. CHL.
From the time the first donations were recorded in the Book of the Law of the Lord in December 1841, JS and the Twelve had repeatedly instructed on the proper procedure for making donations. (See JS, Journal, 11 and 13 Dec. 1841; 6 Apr. 1843.)