Footnotes
Monaghan, “New Mormon Letter,” 85–86.
Monaghan, Jay. “A New Mormon Letter.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 40, no. 1 (Mar. 1947): 85–86.
Footnotes
By July, Don Carlos Smith wrote Granger and mentioned he had heard Granger’s health was finally improving, but Granger died the next month. (Don Carlos Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Oliver Granger, Kirtland, OH, 11 July 1841, Don Carlos Smith, Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841, CHL; Obituary for Oliver Granger, Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1841, 2:550.)
Smith, Don Carlos. Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841. CHL.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
In July 1841, Horace Hotchkiss, a major creditor to the First Presidency for land purchased in Illinois, informed JS that Galland had never arrived in Connecticut to settle debts with Hotchkiss and his partners and that Galland had already left for the western United States. (Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 24 July 1841.)
Existing records do not reveal the circumstances or details of this judgment. Church leaders mortgaged the House of the Lord in Kirtland in July 1837 to Mead, Stafford & Co. Although the deed transferred ownership of the building to that firm, the church maintained use of the facility. Granger had apparently satisfied the mortgage debt by January 1841, since in a January 1841 letter JS said he was pleased that Granger had secured “the keys of the Lords House.” (Historical Introduction to Deed to William Marks, 10 Apr. 1837; Mortgage to Mead, Stafford & Co., 11 July 1837; Letter to Oliver Granger, 26 Jan. 1841.)
Agnes Coolbrith Smith was the wife of JS’s younger brother Don Carlos Smith. After learning that Granger had regained possession of Don Carlos’s property in Kirtland, Ohio, Don Carlos wrote a letter to Granger in February 1841 imploring him to arrange for the transfer of the house and lot back to himself. (Don Carlos Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Oliver Granger, Kirtland, OH, 14 Feb. 1841, Don Carlos Smith, Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841, CHL.)
Smith, Don Carlos. Letters to Oliver Granger, 1841. CHL.
The recent influx of British immigrants resulted from the apostles’ decision to help converts from Great Britain emigrate to the United States. (Fielding, Journal, 1840–1841, 10; Joseph Fielding, Liverpool, England, to Willard Richards, Preston, England, 25 Mar. 1840, Willard Richards, Papers, CHL; see also Letter from Brigham Young and Willard Richards, 5 Sept. 1840; Letter to Quorum of the Twelve, 15 Dec. 1840; and Report of the First Presidency to the Church, ca. 7 Apr. 1841.)
Fielding, Joseph. Journals, 1837–1859. CHL. MS 1567.
Richards, Willard. Journals and Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490.