Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
Richards, Journal, 9 Aug. 1844; “Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1844, 5:693; see also Minutes, Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:30.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Andrus and Fuller, Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 24; Wilkinson et al., Brigham Young University, 4:255.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Wilkinson, Ernest L., Leonard J. Arrington, and Bruce C. Hafen, eds. Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years. Vol. 4. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1976.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to Letter from Thomas Ford, 17 Dec. 1842; Letter from Justin Butterfield, 17 Dec. 1842; Petition to Chauncey Robison, 26 Dec. 1842; Petition to the United States Circuit Court for the District of Illinois, 31 Dec. 1842; Petition to Thomas Ford, 31 Dec. 1842; Affidavit, 2 Jan. 1843.
JS, Journal, 5 Jan. 1843; Clayton, Journal, 5–6 Jan. 1843; Thomas Ford, Order Discharging JS, 6 Jan. 1843.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
JS, Journal, 7 and 10 Jan. 1843; Clayton, Journal, 7 and 10 Jan. 1843.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
John C. Bennett, Springfield, IL, to Sidney Rigdon and Orson Pratt, Nauvoo, IL, 10 Jan. [1843], Sidney Rigdon, Collection, CHL.
See Historical Introduction to Promissory Note to John Brassfield, 16 Apr. 1839; and the dismissals filed during the August 1840 term relating to the 1839 Daviess County grand jury indictments involving JS and others in the nolle prosequi docket entries for State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Treason; State of Missouri v. Baldwin et al. for Arson; State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Arson; State of Missouri v. Worthington et al. for Larceny; and State of Missouri v. JS for Receiving Stolen Goods, available in the Legal Records section of the Joseph Smith Papers website, josephsmithpapers.org.
On 1 September 1840, Boggs—apparently unaware that the Boone County Circuit Court dismissed the 1839 indictments the previous month—sent a requisition to Illinois governor Thomas Carlin for JS’s extradition. Although Carlin issued a warrant for JS’s arrest, the officer charged with arresting JS was unable to find him and returned the warrant to the governor unserved. Carlin reissued the same warrant in June 1841, resulting in a habeas corpus hearing before state supreme court justice Stephen A. Douglas during 8–10 June 1841. Douglas ruled that because Carlin’s initial warrant had been returned unserved, it was invalid and Missouri would need to initiate new extradition proceedings. (Requisition, 1 Sept. 1840, State of Missouri v. JS for Treason [Warren Co. Cir. Ct. 1841], Joseph Smith Extradition Records, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL; Editorial, Times and Seasons, Sept. 1840, 1:169–170; “The Late Proceedings,” Times and Seasons, 15 June 1841, 2:447–449.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
In summer 1842, Bennett accused JS of proposing marriage to both Sidney Rigdon’s daughter Nancy Rigdon and Orson Pratt’s wife, Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt. Because of these accusations, rumors spread that both Sidney Rigdon and Orson Pratt were aligned with Bennett. For months afterward, apprehension and mistrust marked JS’s relationships with both men. (Letter to Nancy Rigdon, ca. Mid-Apr. 1842; “Astounding Mormon Disclosures! Letter from Gen. Bennett,” Sangamo Journal [Springfield, IL], 8 July 1842, [2]; “Further Mormon Developments!! 2d Letter from Gen. Bennett,” Sangamo Journal, 15 July 1842, [2]; JS, Journal, 12–13 May 1842; 28 June 1842; 21 Aug. 1842; Letter from Sidney Rigdon, 1 July 1842; “Elder Rigdon,” Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1842, 3:922–923; Bennett, History of the Saints, 226–229, 241–245, 247–248; “John C. Bennett,” Times and Seasons, 1 Aug. 1842, 3:868–878; Account of Meeting, 15 July 1842; Minutes, 22 July 1842; Letter to Horace Hotchkiss, 26 Nov. 1842; Minutes, 20 Jan. 1843.)
Sangamo Journal. Springfield, IL. 1831–1847.
Bennett, John C. The History of the Saints; or, an Exposé of Joe Smith and Mormonism. Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1842.
After Pratt shared the letter with him, JS in turn shared it with a group of guests at a banquet at his home on 18 January. He subsequently delivered the letter to John Taylor, who made a copy of it and wrote an editorial denouncing Rigdon and his association with Bennett. Taylor probably intended to publish the letter and editorial in the Times and Seasons. (JS, Journal, 18 Jan. 1843; John C. Bennett, Springfield, IL, to Sidney Rigdon and Orson Pratt, 10 Jan. [1843], copy, JS Collection [Supplement], CHL; Historical Department, Journal History of the Church, 10 Jan. 1843.)
Historical Department. Journal History of the Church, 1896–. CHL. CR 100 137.
For a discussion of Clayton’s role as JS’s agent during this period, see Historical Introduction to Land Transaction with Chauncey Robison, 22 Oct. 1842.
The letter of reply from Butterfield is apparently no longer extant but is referenced in a reply from JS. (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Justin Butterfield, 18 Mar. 1843, JS Collection, CHL.)