Footnotes
See Historical Introduction to Letter from Elias Higbee, 20 Feb. 1840–A.
Coray, Autobiographical Sketch, 17, 19.
Coray, Howard. Autobiographical Sketch, after 1883. Howard Coray, Papers, ca. 1840–1941. Photocopy. CHL. MS 2043, fd. 1.
See Acts 24:16.
“The subscription” refers to the resolution in the report of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. (Report of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 4 Mar. 1840.)
See Job 3:17.
In a subsequent letter, Higbee identified the printer mentioned here as William Green. In response to Parley P. Pratt’s request to print the Book of Mormon and other church publications in New York, Hyrum Smith urged Pratt to send to the Commerce area any printers willing to settle there so that the First Presidency could supervise the printing. (Letter from Elias Higbee, 24 Mar. 1840; Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 22 Nov. 1839; Hyrum Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Parley P. Pratt, New York City, NY, 22 Dec. 1839, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 80–81.)
Rockwell and Foster were part of the group that traveled to the eastern United States with JS, Rigdon, and Higbee. (Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, 29 Oct. 1839, 66; Historical Introduction to Letter of Introduction from Sidney Rigdon, 9 Nov. 1839.)