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.
Williams and Eaton made separate affidavits on 27 March 1844 detailing information they had received from Chauncey L. Higbee, Joseph H. Jackson, and Robert D. Foster, including details about the “spiritual wife system” and accusations that JS had committed murder. Both men also reported being invited to a secret meeting, and Williams reported Jackson saying that “he should not be surprised if in two weeks there should not be one of the Smith family left alive in Nauvoo.” In his affidavit, Eaton detailed Foster’s claim that someone had attempted to seduce his wife, Sarah Phinney Foster, while he was away. (Merinus G. Eaton, Affidavit; Abiathar Williams, Affidavit, Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [2]; see also JS, Journal, 23 and 24 Mar. 1844.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.