Footnotes
Willard Richards served as JS’s scribe in 1841 and then as JS’s private secretary from 1842 to 1844. (Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 454.)
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
“Index to Papers in the Historian’s Office,” ca. 1904, draft, 4; “Index to Papers in the Historian’s Office,” ca. 1904, 4, Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 8; see also the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection in the CHL catalog.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
The first issue of the Times and Seasons was printed in July 1839 and reissued in November of the same year. The paper was devoted to publishing “all general information respecting the church.” (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return, May 1890, 257–258; “Prospectus of the Times and Seasons,” Times and Seasons, Nov. 1839, 1:16.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Twelve months before Hewitt wrote this letter, church members were only just beginning to settle in the Commerce area. At a council of church members on 24 April 1839 in Quincy, Illinois, it was resolved that as many church members “as are able, move on to the north [to Commerce] as soon as they possibly can.” (Minutes, 24 Apr. 1839.)
Judy was a member of the Far West, Missouri, elders quorum in 1837 and 1838. (Minute Book 2, 31 Aug. 1838.)
The Times and Seasons was edited by Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith. A subscription to the monthly periodical cost one dollar per year, payable in advance. (Masthead, Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:32.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Probably Daniel Stanton, a high priest living in Quincy at the time. (Daniel Stanton, Affidavit, 18 Mar. 1840, Record Group 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, National Archives, Washington DC; Minutes, 25–26 Oct. 1831.)
Record Group 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives / Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to the Committee on Judiciary during the 27th Congress. Committee on the Judiciary, Petitions and Memorials, 1813–1968. Record Group 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789–2015. National Archives, Washington DC. The LDS records cited herein are housed in National Archives boxes 40 and 41 of Library of Congress boxes 139–144 in HR27A-G10.1.
Rose was born 25 February 1792 in Orange, New York. (“Members of the Quorum When Organized and up to the Year 1852,” Second Quorum of Seventies, Records, vol. 1, p. 21, in Seventies Quorum Records, CHL.)
Seventies Quorum Records, 1844–1975. CHL. CR 499.
Probably Hiram Dayton, who was born 1 November 1799 in Herkimer, New York, and was living in Commerce at the time Hewitt wrote this letter. (Hiram Dayton, “The Sufferings and Loss of Property of Hiram Dayton and Family,” 26 May 1879, Historian’s Office, History of Persecutions, 1879–1880, CHL; Temple Records Index Bureau, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 61.)
Historian's Office. History of Persecutions, 1879–1880. CHL.
Temple Records Index Bureau of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974.
Curtis was born 5 May 1805 in Steventown, New York, and was baptized on 7 July 1831 by Solomon Hancock in Fountain County. (“Died,” Deseret News [Salt Lake City], 4 Nov. 1863, 124.)
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
See John 21:1–3.