Footnotes
Revelation, 8 July 1838–A [D&C 118:4]. Parley P. Pratt, who had been in England, returned to the United States in early July and did not return to England until October. (Pratt, Autobiography, 342–343.)
Pratt, Parley P. The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry and Travels, with Extracts, in Prose and Verse, from His Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Parley P. Pratt Jr. New York: Russell Brothers, 1874.
Woodruff, Journal, 18–19 Dec. 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
In the nineteenth century, the phrase “to take a car” meant to travel by railroad. (See, for example, “Journey to Our State Convention,” Universalist Union, 20 July 1844, 9:564; and Tourist; or, Pocket Manual for Travellers, 7, 97.)
Universalist Union. New York City, 1835–1847; Philadelphia, 1835–1837; Albany, 1835–1837; Troy, NY, 1835–1837; Hartford, CT, 1835–1837; Baltimore, 1837.
The Tourist or Pocket Manual for Travellers on the Hudson River, the Western Canal and Stage Road to Niagara Falls Down Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence to Montreal and Quebec. . . . 3rd ed. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1834.
Kimball stopped in Byron, New York, intending to visit his sister Eliza Kimball Hall and her husband, Harvey Hall. When he learned that they had recently relocated to Rochester, New York, he stayed the night with William Lewis, another friend of the Kimball family. He traveled to his sister’s home the next day. (Heber C. Kimball, Victor, NY, to Vilate Murray Kimball, Commerce, IL, 27 Dec. 1839, typescript, Heber C. Kimball Family Organization, Compilation of Heber C. Kimball Correspondence, 1983, CHL.)
Heber C. Kimball Family Organization. Compilation of Heber C. Kimball Correspondence, 1983. Unpublished typescript. CHL.
JS stated that he removed the gold plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon from a hill in Manchester Township, New York. (See JS History, vol. A-1, 7–8; and Oliver Cowdery, “Letter VII,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, July 1835, 1:158.)
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
On 1 January 1840, Kimball baptized William and Mary Murray. (H. Kimball to V. Kimball, 27 Dec. 1839; see also Brigham Young, New York City, NY, to Mary Ann Angell Young, Commerce, IL, 14 and 29 Feb. 1840; 5 and 7 Mar. 1840, George W. Thatcher Blair, Collection, CHL.)
Heber C. Kimball Family Organization. Compilation of Heber C. Kimball Correspondence, 1983. Unpublished typescript. CHL.
Blair, George W. Thatcher. Collection, 1837–1988. CHL.
The North River was an alternate name for the Hudson River. (See, for example, Morrison, Morrison’s North River Traveller’s Companion [1831].)
Morrison, Thomas. Morrison’s North River Traveller’s Companion: Containing a Map of the Hudson or North River, with a Description of the Adjoining Country. . . . Philadelphia: By the author, [1831]. Digital image available at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, www.leventhalmap.org/id/18281.
Kimball owed an additional twenty-four cents at this point in his journey. (Heber C. Kimball, New York, to Vilate Murray Kimball, Commerce, IL, 19 Feb. 1840, typescript, Heber C. Kimball Family Organization, Compilation of Heber C. Kimball Correspondence, 1983, CHL.)
Heber C. Kimball Family Organization. Compilation of Heber C. Kimball Correspondence, 1983. Unpublished typescript. CHL.
On 29 August 1839, Pratt left Nauvoo in company with his wife, Mary Ann Frost Pratt; his three children; Orson Pratt; and Hiram Clark. Parley P. Pratt and his family arrived in New York around October 1839. ([Parley P. Pratt], “Sketches of Travels in America, and Voyage to England,” LDS Millennial Star, July 1840, 1:49–50.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Young arrived in New York City on 31 January 1840, and Orson Pratt arrived in New York City around 1 January 1840. On 16 February, Kimball found the other missionaries at Parley P. Pratt’s residence located at “No. 58, Mott Street,” where they had boarded since their arrival in the city. (Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 26, 34; Orson Pratt to Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt, 6 Jan. 1840, in Times and Seasons, Feb. 1840, 1:61; B. Young to M. Young, 14 and 29 Feb. 1840; 5 and 7 Mar. 1840; H. Kimball to V. Kimball, 19 Feb. 1840.)
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Blair, George W. Thatcher. Collection, 1837–1988. CHL.
Heber C. Kimball Family Organization. Compilation of Heber C. Kimball Correspondence, 1983. Unpublished typescript. CHL.
In a 5 March 1840 letter to his wife, Kimball wrote, “The people are inquiring the way to Heaven. thare is cols [calls] on alls hands [to] come and preach to us.” On 22 November 1839, Parley P. Pratt similarly commented that the Columbian Hall in New York City could hold around one thousand people and that the church meetings there were “well filled with attentive hearers.” (Heber C. Kimball, New York City, NY, to Vilate Murray Kimball, 5 Mar. 1840, photocopy, Heber C. Kimball, Correspondence, 1837–1864, CHL; Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 22 Nov. 1839.)
Kimball, Heber C. Correspondence, 1837–1864. Private possession. Copy at CHL.
The Patrick Henry was a packet ship built in New York City in 1839. In 1840 it sailed under the command of Joseph C. Delano. The missionaries “paid $18.00 each for a steerage passage furnished our own provisions and bedding— paid the cook $1.00 each for cooking.” (Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 35; Sonne, Ships, Saints, and Mariners, 165.)
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Sonne, Conway B. Ships, Saints, and Mariners: A Maritime Encyclopedia of Mormon Migration, 1830–1890. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987.
Brigham Young’s history noted that “a large number of Saints came down to the wharf to bid us farewell, when we got into the small boat to go out to the ship, the brethren sang, ‘The gallant ship is under way’ we joined them as long as we could hear.” (Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 36.)
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Parley P. Pratt described these storms in a letter to his wife, Mary Ann: “It soon came on a heavy gale of wind, mingled with storm, which drove us perhaps ten miles per hour with out having up any sail. this lasted two or 3 days, and the mate said he had not seen such a gale in 13 years. the sea Looked like mountains and vallies. sometimes the ship would be on the top of a wave as high as a three story building, and the next moment it would plunge into a yawning gulf, where the water would be perhaps thirty feet higher than the vessel on every side and Every few minits a mountain wave would dash over the deck and drench the sailors and Every thing in sea water.” (Parley P. Pratt, Liverpool, England, to Mary Ann Frost Pratt, New York City, NY, 6 Apr. 1840, Parley P. Pratt, Papers, CHL; see also George A. Smith, Burslem, England, to C. C. Waller, 6 June 1840, in C. C. Waller, Ohio City, OH, to John Smith, Commerce, IL, 28 July 1840, John Smith, Papers, CHL; and Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 36.)
Pratt, Parley P. Papers, 1837–1844. CHL.
Smith, John. Papers, 1833–1854. CHL.
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
The apostles boarded at a “Mrs Beals, No 8 Union Street.” (P. Pratt to M. Pratt, 6 Apr. 1840.)
Pratt, Parley P. Papers, 1837–1844. CHL.
John Taylor and Theodore Turley, “being short of means,” separated in Auburn, New York, from the larger group of traveling missionaries on 29 November 1839, the day after Kimball left to visit his friends in Byron. Taylor, Turley, and Woodruff departed from New York aboard the Oxford on 19 December 1839. The three missionaries arrived in Liverpool on 11 January 1840. After briefly traveling to Preston, England, to visit relatives, Taylor began to labor in Liverpool on 22 January 1840. The branch in Liverpool numbered “about thirty Saints” in April 1840. (Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 32; Turley, Reminiscences and Journal, [15]; Woodruff, Journal, 18–19 Dec. 1839 and 11 Jan. 1840; John Taylor, Liverpool, England, to Leonora Cannon Taylor, 30 Jan. 1840, John Taylor, Collection, CHL; Richards, Journal, 13 Jan. 1840.)
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
Turley, Theodore. Reminiscences and Journal, Sept. 1839–July 1840. Photocopy. CHL. MS 1950.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Parley P. Pratt stayed behind with Taylor in Liverpool. (Clayton, Diary, 9 Apr. 1840; Heber C. Kimball and Joseph Fielding, Clitheroe, England, 6 May 1840, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, July 1840, 1:138.)
Clayton, William. Diary, Jan.–Nov. 1846. CHL.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
These three elders had presided over the church in England since Kimball completed an earlier mission there in 1838. (JS History, vol. B-1, 786; Thompson, Journal of Heber C. Kimball, 55.)
Thompson, Robert B. Journal of Heber C. Kimball an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Nauvoo, IL: Robinson and Smith, 1840.
Fielding wrote in his journal that the reunion “was indeed a time of Rejoicing, yet they look thin & weather beaten. Bro. Kimball is very thin, but they are in good Spirits, and the Spirits of the Saints are greatly revived by their coming.” (Fielding, Journal, 9 Apr. 1840, 7.)
Fielding, Joseph. Journals, 1837–1859. CHL. MS 1567.
Three days after arriving in Preston, the apostles held a meeting with five or six hundred in attendance, which Kimball described as “something like the day of Penticost, for there were some from various places, from a distance of 20 to 60 miles.” (Heber C. Kimball and Joseph Fielding, Clitheroe, England, 6 May 1840, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, July 1840, 1:138.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
During this 14 April 1840 council, “Brigham Young was unanimously chosen as the standing president of the Twelve,” and John Taylor was appointed the quorum’s secretary. (Woodruff, Journal, 14 Apr. 1840.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
A July 1838 revelation appointed Willard Richards as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (Revelation, 8 July 1838–A [D&C 118:6].)
The Cockpit, originally constructed for cock fighting, was a temperance hall by the early 1830s. The missionaries had used the arena for public sermons since September 1837. They paid “seven shillings sterling per week for the use of it, and two shillings per week for the lighting, it being beautifully lit up with gas.” (Fishwick, History of the Parish of Preston, 407; Winskill, Temperance Movement and Its Workers, 88; Fielding, Journal, Sept. 1837, 30; Thompson, Journal of Heber C. Kimball, 25–26; see also Walmsley, Reminiscences of the Preston Cockpit and the Old Teetotallers, 1–3.)
Fishwick, Henry. The History of the Parish of Preston in Amounderness in the County of Lancaster. Rochdale, England: Aldine Press, 1900.
Winskill, P. T. The Temperance Movement and Its Workers: A Record of Social, Moral, Religious, and Political Progress. Vol. 1. London: Blackie and Son, 1892.
Fielding, Joseph. Journals, 1837–1859. CHL. MS 1567.
Thompson, Robert B. Journal of Heber C. Kimball an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Nauvoo, IL: Robinson and Smith, 1840.
Walmsley, Thomas. Reminiscences of the Preston Cockpit and the Old Teetotallers. Preston, England: Guardian Printing Works, 1892.
See [Parley P. Pratt], “At a General Conference,” LDS Millennial Star, May 1840, 1:20–21.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.