Footnotes
Cole et al., Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions, 22; Edelman, “Brief History of Tape,” 45–46.
Cole, David J., Eve Browning, and Fred E.H. Schroeder. Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Edelman, Jonathan. “A Brief History of Tape.” Ambidextrous 5 (Falling in 2006): 45–46.
JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
Footnotes
Minutes, 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo Mun. Ct. 1843), JS Collection, CHL; see also “Part 4: June–July 1843”; Ford, History of Illinois, 315–316; Docket Entry, ca. 1 July 1843, Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo Mun. Ct. 1843), Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 55–56; Affidavit, 24 June 1843; and Petition to Nauvoo Municipal Court, 30 June 1843.
Ford, Thomas. A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847. Containing a Full Account of the Black Hawk War, the Rise, Progress, and Fall of Mormonism, the Alton and Lovejoy Riots, and Other Important and Interesting Events. Chicago: S. C. Griggs; New York: Ivison and Phinney, 1854.
Clayton, Journal, 2 July 1843; Shepherd Patrick et al., Affidavit, [Nauvoo, IL], 2 July 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL; Joseph H. Reynolds, St. Louis, MO, 10 July 1843, Letter to the Editor, Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald, 10 July 1843, [2].
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Old School Democrat and Saint Louis Herald. St Louis, MO. 1843–1844.
Thomas Ford, Springfield, IL, to Mason Brayman, 3 July 1843, Illinois Governor’s Correspondence, 1816–1852, Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Illinois Governor’s Correspondence, 1816–1852. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Gregg, History of Hancock County, Illinois, 240, 283.
Gregg, Thomas. History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws. Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1880.
JS, Journal, 1 Aug. 1843. The last page of the letter bears the inscription “Springfield July 29— /[18]43 | Communicatin | from | M. Brayman | Received Augt 1.—” in the handwriting of Willard Richards. This may be a contemporaneous endorsement noting the date of reception. However, the inscription was written on the letter where dockets were normally written, and it is possible that its date was retrospectively based on JS’s journal entry for 1 August 1843. It is also possible that the inscription is a contemporaneous docket with a date based on the personal knowledge of Richards, who was JS’s secretary.
Ford denied Joseph H. Reynolds’s request for “a detachment of militia to assist in retaking” JS because Ford had already fulfilled the requirements of the law and because JS had not resisted arrest; Ford did not consider the situation to be an “extreme emergency” that would justify his deployment of the militia. (“Illinois and Missouri,” Times and Seasons, 15 Aug. 1843, 4:292–294; see also An Act for the Organization and Government of the Militia of this State [2 Mar. 1833], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois, p. 483, sec. 43.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois: Containing All the Laws . . . Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835; and at Their Second Session, Commencing December 7, 1835, and Ending January 18, 1836; and Those Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837; and at Their Special Session, Commencing July 10, and Ending July 22, 1837. . . . Compiled by Jonathan Young Scammon. Chicago: Stephen F. Gale, 1839.
For more on the intrigue surrounding the extradition, Thomas Ford, and the August election, see Hedges, “Extradition, the Mormons, and the Election of 1843,” 127–147.
Hedges, Andrew H. “Extradition, the Mormons, and the Election of 1843.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 109, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 127–147.
In the 1842 gubernatorial election, Ford received 454 votes, and his political opponent, Joseph Duncan, received only 5 votes in the Nauvoo precinct. (Hancock Co., IL, Nauvoo Precinct, Election Returns, 1 Aug. 1842, [14], CHL.)
Hancock Co., IL, Nauvoo Precinct, Election Returns, 1 Aug. 1842. CHL. MS 15329.