Footnotes
These apostles arrived in Liverpool on 6 April 1840 along with Reuben Hedlock, a member of the Seventy. (George A. Smith, Autobiography, 9 Mar. and 6 Apr. 1840, 92.)
Smith, George A. Autobiography, ca. 1860–1882. George Albert Smith, Papers, 1834–1877. CHL. MS 1322, box 1, fd. 2.
“Death of Col. Robert B. Thompson,” Times and Seasons, 1 Sept. 1841, 2:519–520. The letter is followed by items dated June and July 1840. (See Minutes, 2 July 1840, in JS Letterbook 2, p. 154; and Letter from William W. Phelps, with Appended Letter from Orson Hyde and John E. Page, 29 June 1840.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Note, in JS Letterbook 2, p. 153. Snow arrived in England, carrying JS’s letter, on either 21 or 22 October 1840. (JS History, vol. C-1, 1119; Lorenzo Snow, London, England, to “E. McConougley,” [1841], in Snow, Letterbook, [15].)
Snow, Lorenzo. Letterbook, ca. 1839–1846. CHL.
See John 11:48.
“Cousin Lemuel” refers to the American Indians. Laman and Lemuel, brothers in the Book of Mormon, were considered by early Latter-day Saints to be the ancestors of the American Indians.
The Half-Breed Tract comprised approximately 119,000 acres of Lee County, Iowa Territory, between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers that the federal government had set aside in 1824 for children of American Indians who had intermarried with white settlers. (Roberts and Moorhead, History of Lee County, Iowa, 1:55–56.)
Roberts, Nelson C., and S. W. Moorhead, eds. Story of Lee County, Iowa. 2 vols. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing, 1914.
See Mark 4:11.
The first company of English Saints to immigrate to the Nauvoo area comprised 41 individuals who departed Liverpool on 6 June 1840. The second company, numbering 201, left Liverpool on 8 September 1840. (Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 40; William Clayton, Penwortham, England, to Brigham Young and Willard Richards, Manchester, England, 19 Aug. 1840, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; Historical Introduction to Letter from Heber C. Kimball and Others, 25 May 1840; Clayton, Diary, 8 Sept. 1840.)
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
Clayton, William. Diary, Jan.–Nov. 1846. CHL.
Possibly a reference to the Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, a newspaper edited by Parley P. Pratt and published in Manchester, the first issue of which appeared the same month Young wrote this letter to JS. ([Parley P. Pratt], “Prospectus,” LDS Millennial Star, May 1840, 1:1–2.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
At a 14 April 1840 meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve in Preston, those present requested that “twenty of the Seventies be sent for, and that it be left discretionary with the president of the Twelve, to send for more if he think proper.” (“From England,” Times and Seasons, June 1840, 1:119.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.