Footnotes
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–.
A photocopy of a different document in the same folder at the Utah State Historical Society has an inscription in the same ink that reads: “Original note in possession of SA Murdock, SLC[,] copied 12-11-61,” suggesting that the copy of the Richards letter was made and donated at the same time. (See JS to Lyman Hineman, Promissory Note, Nauvoo, IL, 4 Mar. 1844, Zenos Gurley, Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents, ca. 1839–1844, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City.)
Gurley, Zenos. Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents, ca. 1839–1844. Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City.
Footnotes
Hall, America’s Successful Men of Affairs, 666; Ellery and Bowditch, Pickering Genealogy, 509; Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa, 231.
Hall, Henry, ed. America’s Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography. Vol. 2. New York: New York Tribune, 1896.
Ellery, Harrison, and Charles Pickering Bowditch. The Pickering Genealogy: Being an Account of the First Three Generations of the Pickering Family of Salem, Mass., and of the Descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill) Pickering, of the Third Generation. Vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: University Press, John Wilson and Son, 1897.
Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke County, Iowa. . . . Chicago: Lewis, 1886.
An Act to Authorize Henry Eno and Others to Erect a Dam across the Des Moines River [17 Jan. 1839], Statute Laws of the Territory of Iowa, p. 362, sec. 1.
The Statute Laws of the Territory of Iowa, Enacted at the First Session of the Legislative Assembly of Said Territory, Held at Burlington, A. D. 1838–’39. Dubuque, Iowa Territory: Russell and Reeves, 1839. Reprint, Des Moines: Historical Department of Iowa, 1900.
Iowa Writers’ Program, Work Projects Administration, Bentonsport Memories, 10–11; An Act Allowing the Holders of a Charter to Erect a Dam across the Des Moines at Bentonsport . . . [16 Feb. 1843], Local Laws of the Territory of Iowa, chap. 82, p. 89.
Iowa Writers’ Program, Work Projects Administration. Bentonsport Memories. American Guide Series. [Bentonsport, IA]: Work Projects Administration, 1940.
Local Laws of the Territory of Iowa, Enacted at the Session of the Legislature Which Commenced on the First Monday of December, 1843 [1842]. Iowa City, Iowa Territory: Hughes and Williams, 1843.
Land Patents for George Howe and Seth Richards, 1 Dec. 1841, nos. 381, 641, 5639, 5642, General Land Office Records, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
General Land Office Records. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior. Digital images of the land patents cited herein are available at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.
In his 3 February 1841 inaugural address, Nauvoo mayor John C. Bennett recommended the construction of a dam on the Mississippi River, as well as of a canal that would extend into the city of Nauvoo. Later that month, Newel Knight, Levi Jackman, and Samuel Rolfe petitioned the Nauvoo City Council to allow them to build a dam in the Mississippi River near Nauvoo. (; Newel Knight, Levi Jackman, and Samuel Rolfe, Petition, 13 Feb. 1841, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.)
Bentonsport lies along the Des Moines River, which flows over five hundred miles from southern Minnesota to its confluence with the Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa.
An Act to Authorize Henry Eno and Others to Erect a Dam across the Des Moines River [17 Jan. 1839], Statute Laws of the Territory of Iowa, pp. 362–363.
The Statute Laws of the Territory of Iowa, Enacted at the First Session of the Legislative Assembly of Said Territory, Held at Burlington, A. D. 1838–’39. Dubuque, Iowa Territory: Russell and Reeves, 1839. Reprint, Des Moines: Historical Department of Iowa, 1900.