Footnotes
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [2], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
McKee was listed in the 1840 census as being between thirty and forty years of age. He was apparently married with four children. (1840 U.S. Census, Claysville, Washington Co., PA, 192.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
“Minutes of a Conference,” Messenger and Advocate, Sept. 1837, 3:574.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, 756–757; “Caswall’s Prophet of the Nineteenth Century,” Millennial Star, Apr. 1843, 3:197.
Crumrine, Boyd. History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1882.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
There are apparently no extant copies of the Mormon Expositor. It was not regarded highly by church members—a New York City conference of the church held in October 1842 approved a resolution stating that the newspaper was “detrimental to the cause of the church of Christ” and asking that the clerk send the conference’s “disapprobation” to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in Nauvoo. Likewise, a special conference held in Philadelphia in October 1842 stated that Brown had published the newspaper “without the request or sanction” of the church, and the conference formally disapproved of the publication. According to the conference, the newspaper showed that Brown had “a total want of ability to conduct any paper.” (Minutes, New York City, NY, 19 Oct. 1842, in Times and Seasons, 15 Apr. 1843, 4:175; Philadelphia Branch Record Book, 31 Oct. 1842, 34–35.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Philadelphia Branch Record Book, 1840–1854. Microfilm. CHL. Original at CCLA.
Church members consecrated property to church leaders when they attempted to establish the city of Zion in Jackson County, Missouri, from 1831 to 1833. This consecration was in accordance with a February 1831 JS revelation directing members to donate their money, goods, and land to the church, after which they would receive back an inheritance, or stewardship, based on their circumstances, needs, and wants. A July 1838 revelation revised these instructions by directing church members to give all “their surplus property” to the bishop and then a “tenth of all their interest annually” thereafter. Based on these practices, a pamphlet published by La Roy Sunderland in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the late 1830s alleged that “all who submit to Mormon dictation, must yield up all their earthly property which they do not need for their support.” The pamphlet claimed that once church members handed over their property, church leaders would continue to hold it even if members wanted to leave the church. Apostle John E. Page refuted Sunderland’s accusations in a series of articles he published in summer 1842 in Pittsburgh (approximately forty miles from Claysville). (“Let Every Man Learn His Duty,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Jan. 1833, [5]; Revelation, 20 May 1831 [D&C 51:3–4]; Revelation, 9 Feb. 1831 [D&C 42:30–34]; Revelation, 8 July 1838–C [D&C 119:1, 4]; Sunderland, Mormonism Exposed and Refuted, 22, 33; “Mormonism Alias, Truth,” Morning Chronicle [Pittsburgh], 13 June 1842, [2]; “Mormonism—Concluded,” Morning Chronicle, 20 July 1842, [2].)
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
Sunderland, La Roy. Mormonism Exposed and Refuted. New York City: Piercy and Reed, 1838.
Morning Chronicle. Pittsburgh. 1841–1844.
During the winter, low water levels sometimes prevented river travel. In 1840, for example, church member Oliver Granger was delayed from going from Nauvoo to Kirtland, Ohio, because of low water levels on the Ohio River. (Letter from Hyrum Smith, 2 Jan. 1840.)