Footnotes
Although the letter itself has no date, JS’s reply to it states that the letter was written on 28 September 1835. (JS, Journal, 16 Nov. 1835.)
Minute Book 2, 11 Sept. 1833.
For an overview of the expulsion, see “A History, of the Persecution,” Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:19–20; Jan. 1840, 1:33–36.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, 27 June 1858, 7:54.
Journal of Discourses. 26 vols. Liverpool: F. D. Richards, 1855–1886.
JS, Journal, 16 Nov. 1835.
JS, Journal, 16 Nov. 1835.
Minute Book 1, 30 Jan. 1836.
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, 1835–1836.
Frederick G. Williams handwriting ends; Warren Parrish begins.
A June 1831 revelation assigned Whitlock and David Whitmer to travel to Missouri, preaching along the way. In the course of their journey, they preached in Paris, Illinois, to a group that included William E. McLellin. Referring to Whitlock’s three-hour sermon, McLellin declared, “I never heard such preaching in all my life. The glory of God seemed to encircle the man and the wisdom of God to be displayed in his discourse.” Whitlock also preached with Zebedee Coltrin in 1832 in “the north part of Illinois & Indiana Michigan. into Ohio.” (Revelation, 6 June 1831 [D&C 52:25]; McLellin, Journal, 24 July 1831; Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 28 Jan. 1832; Coltrin, Diary and Notebook, 26 Jan. 1832, [1].)
McLellin, William E. Journal, 18 July–20 Nov. 1831. William E. McLellin, Papers, 1831–1836, 1877–1878. CHL. MS 13538, box 1, fd. 1. Also available as Jan Shipps and John W. Welch, eds., The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831–1836 (Provo, UT: BYU Studies; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
Coltrin, Zebedee. Diary and Notebook, 1832–1833. Zebedee Coltrin, Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443, fd. 2.
See Zechariah 7:10; and Jeremiah 7:6.
See Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 46 [1 Nephi 17:45].