Footnotes
Francis Barber Howell began operating a paper mill in Lockport, Ohio, around 1830. (Bidwell, American Paper Mills, 290.)
Bidwell, John. American Paper Mills, 1690–1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2013.
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“Index to Papers in the Historian’s Office,” ca. 1904, 7, Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Footnotes
During their July meeting, Reynolds assured Miller and Derby that the Missouri charges against JS, based on the 1838 conflict between Latter-day Saints and their neighbors, would not be revived. However, after Lilburn W. Boggs swore an affidavit on 20 July implicating JS in the assassination attempt on Boggs, Reynolds issued a requisition to Thomas Carlin for JS’s arrest and extradition. (JS, Journal, 12 and 24 July 1842; Letter from Calvin A. Warren, 13 July 1842; George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 26 June 1855, in Northern Islander, 16 Aug. 1855, [4]; Lilburn W. Boggs, Affidavit, 20 July 1842; Thomas Reynolds, Requisition, 22 July 1842.)
Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.
In his letter to Reynolds, Miller insisted that JS could not have been an accessory before the fact to the attempted assassination of Lilburn W. Boggs because JS had not been in Missouri during the previous three years and was engaged in military drills with the Nauvoo Legion on the day of the attempted assassination. Miller further argued that such an act was contrary to his opinion of JS’s character. (George Miller, St. Louis, MO, to Thomas Reynolds, Jefferson City, MO, 4 Sept. 1842, Records of Governor Thomas Reynolds, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.)
Records of Governor Thomas Reynolds, 1840–1844. MSA.
In 1841 Chambers was appointed governor of Iowa Territory by President William Henry Harrison. Chambers’s predecessor in office, Robert Lucas, had been sympathetic to the plight of JS and the Saints after their expulsion from Missouri. Apparently, sometime after Reynolds sent Chambers a requisition dated 20 August 1842, Chambers issued a warrant for JS’s arrest. He later indicated, however, that the warrant was never served. (Parish, Autobiography of John Chambers, 38; Robert Lucas, Burlington, Iowa Territory, to Martin Van Buren, Washington DC, 22 Apr. 1839, microfilm, Martin Van Buren, Correspondence, 1839–1844, CHL; State of Missouri, Office of the Secretary of State, Commissions Division, Register of Civil Proceedings, vol. A, p. 175; John Chambers, Burlington, Iowa Territory, to John Cowan, [Bald Bluff, IL], 10 Mar. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
Chambers, John. Autobiography of John Chambers. Edited by John Carl Parish. Iowa City, IA: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1908.
Van Buren, Martin. Correspondence, 1839–1844. Photocopies. CHL. MS 12809. Original at Library of Congress, Washington DC.
JS Office Papers / Joseph Smith Office Papers, ca. 1835–1845. CHL. MS 21600.
Hollister was in Quincy, Illinois, at this time, dispatched there by JS to notify him of any movement by officials to travel to Nauvoo in order to arrest him. In this capacity, Hollister sent a letter dated 1 September 1842 to Clayton informing him of plans to apprehend and extradite JS. (Letter to Emma Smith, 16 Aug. 1842; David S. Hollister, Quincy, IL, to Hyrum Smith, Nauvoo, IL, 12 Aug. 1842; David S. Hollister, Quincy, IL, to William Clayton, Nauvoo, IL, 1 Sept. 1842, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
According to a St. Louis directory published in 1842, Raplee was associated with the St. Louis Exchange at the corner of Second and Prune streets. (Saint Louis Directory, for the Year 1842, 112.)
The Saint Louis Directory, for the Year 1842; Containing the Names of the Inhabitants, and the Numbers of Their Places of Business and Dwellings; with a Sketch of the City of Saint Louis. . . . St. Louis: Chambers & Knapp, 1842.
1 September 1842.
In January 1841, the steamboat Leander started traveling on the Mississippi River between Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Natchez, Mississippi. It is unclear when it expanded its route, but it appears that it had made at least one trip on the Illinois River in June 1841. (“Vicksburg and Natchez Tri Weekly Packet,” Mississippian [Jackson, MS], 15 Jan. 1841, [3]; “Navigation on the Illinois River,” Peoria [IL] Register and North-Western Gazetteer, 29 Apr. 1842, [1].)
Mississippian. Jackson, MS. 1841–1842.
Peoria Register and North-Western Gazetteer. Peoria, IL. 1837–1843.
Jasper was the former sheriff of Adams County, of which Quincy was the county seat. (History of Adams County, Illinois, 420.)
The History of Adams County, Illinois. Containing a History of the County—Its Cities, Towns, Etc. . . . Chicago: Murray, Williamson, and Phelps, 1879.
Hollister’s letter arrived in Nauvoo on 3 September, the same day that an undersheriff and two other men arrived at JS’s home to arrest him. (David S. Hollister, Quincy, IL, to William Clayton, Nauvoo, IL, 1 Sept. 1842, JS Office Papers, CHL; JS, Journal, 3 Sept. 1842.)
2 September 1842.
The steamboat Amaranth apparently traveled routes on both the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. (“For Louisville, Cincinnati & Pittsburg,” Daily Missouri Republican [St. Louis], 13 July 1841, [3]; “Steamboat Disasters,” Sun [Baltimore], 6 Dec. 1842, [2].)
Daily Missouri Republican. St. Louis. 1822–1869.
Sun. Baltimore. 1837–2008.
The steamboat Ohio apparently traveled on the Mississippi River between Galena, Illinois, and St. Louis and possibly to points farther south. (“Collision,” Daily Picayune [New Orleans], 7 June 1843, [2].)
Daily Picayune. New Orleans, LA. 1837–1914.
Hyrum Smith departed from Nauvoo on his mission on the same day that Miller wrote this letter. (JS, Journal, 4 Sept. 1842.)