According to a letter Heber C. Kimball wrote to Parley P. and Mary Ann Frost Pratt in June 1842, new converts were moving to Nauvoo “from most Evry State in the union.” (Heber C. Kimball, Nauvoo, IL, to Parley P. Pratt and Mary Ann Frost Pratt, “Manchester or Liverpool,” England, 17 June 1842, Parley P. Pratt, Correspondence, CHL.)
Pratt, Parley P. Correspondence, 1842–1855. CHL. MS 897.
“Joe Smith,” Quincy (IL) Whig, 24 Sept. 1842, [2].
Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.
“Gov. Carlin, Smith and Rigdon,” Quincy (IL) Whig, 3 Oct. 1840, [1].
Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.
See Luke 22:48.
Warren was a leader of colonial protests against the policies of the British government in Boston during the 1770s and was killed fighting the British Army in the Battle of Bunker Hill. (Frothingham, Life and Times of Joseph Warren, chaps. 4–6, 16.)
Frothingham, Richard. Life and Times of Joseph Warren. Boston: Little, Brown, 1865.
This is likely a reference to Anthony Wayne, an American general in the Continental army during the American Revolution. However, Wayne did not die during the Revolution; he perished in 1796, shortly after his military service in the Northwest Indian War. (Nelson, Anthony Wayne, 42, 299.)
Nelson, Paul David. Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early Republic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
See Romans 8:38–39.
This is a reference to former Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs.