Footnotes
Evans, Register of the Stephen Post Papers, 3.
Evans, Max J. Register of the Stephen Post Papers 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, 1975.
Footnotes
Post, Journal, 14 July 1835; 27 Jan. and 13 Feb. 1836; Quorums of the Seventy, “Book of Records,” 9.
Post, Stephen. Journals, 1835–1879. Stephen Post, Papers, 1835–1921. CHL. MS 1304, box 6.
Record of Seventies / First Council of the Seventy. “Book of Records,” 1837–1843. Bk. A. In First Council of the Seventy, Records, 1837–1885. CHL. CR 3 51, box 1, fd. 1.
Post, Journal, 30 Nov. 1835–4 Apr. 1836; see also, for example, Post, Journal, 6 Feb. and 25 Apr. 1837.
Post, Stephen. Journals, 1835–1879. Stephen Post, Papers, 1835–1921. CHL. MS 1304, box 6.
Post, Journal, 13 Apr. 1836–2 Sept. 1838.
Post, Stephen. Journals, 1835–1879. Stephen Post, Papers, 1835–1921. CHL. MS 1304, box 6.
Stephen Post, “Reflections on the Order of God and Effects Flowing from It,” Elders’ Journal, Aug. 1838, 49–50. The August edition of the Elders’ Journal was published sometime after 15 August 1838. (See Historical Introduction to Elders’ Journal, Aug. 1838.)
See Historical Introduction to Affidavit, 5 Sept. 1838; Historical Introduction to Recognizance, 7 Sept. 1838; and Historical Introduction to Letter from Austin A. King, 10 Sept. 1838.
During spring and summer 1838, several small companies of Latter-day Saints journeyed from Ohio to join the main body of Saints in Missouri. (See Rockwood, Journal, 14 Oct. 1838.)
Rockwood, Albert Perry. Journal Entries, Oct. 1838–Jan. 1839. Photocopy. CHL. MS 2606.
TEXT: Possibly “comp[any]”.
At the time JS dictated this letter, Page was leading a company of Saints from Upper Canada to Missouri. While on the road, Page’s company joined with a larger company of Saints traveling to Missouri from Kirtland. This larger company, known as the “Kirtland Camp,” contained over five hundred Saints. At some point, Page likely wrote to JS about the progress of this large company and other groups Page met on the way. On 17 September, the day JS replied to Post, the Kirtland Camp passed through Jacksonville, Illinois—approximately two hundred miles from Far West. The company did not arrive at its final destination of Adam-ondi-Ahman until 4 October 1838. (Page, Journal Synopsis, [1]–[2]; Kirtland Camp, Journal, 13 Mar.–2 Oct. 1838; Tyler, Journal, 4 Oct. 1838, 74–75.)
Page, John E. Journal Synopsis, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 641.
Kirtland Camp. Journal, Mar.–Oct. 1838. CHL. MS 4952.
Tyler, Samuel D. Journal, July–Oct. 1838. CHL. MS 1761.
On 26 April 1838, JS dictated a revelation directing that “the City Far West should be built up spedily, by the gathering of my Saints,” and that JS should appoint further locations for gathering. (See Revelation, 26 Apr. 1838 [D&C 115:17–18].)
JS was likely referring to land patents granted by the federal government’s General Land Office. In 1836 JS and many other Latter-day Saints began acquiring patent titles for land in Caldwell County. JS’s own application was approved just ten days prior to the date of this letter, though the news had not yet reached JS. (See Application for Land Patent, 22 June 1836; and Land Patent, 7 Sept. 1838.)
JS was discussing a type of land speculation that increased in the western United States in the mid-1830s. In 1839, land speculator and recent Latter-day Saint convert Isaac Galland explained to a friend that the Illinois courts in particular expressed a preference for patent titles over other legal claims. “Patents are therefore in demand,” Galland reported, “and you may venture to purchase all that you can get at a fair price.” (Isaac Galland, Chillicothe, OH, to Samuel Swasey, North Haverhill, NH, 22 July 1839, CCLA; see also Rohrbough, Land Office Business, 221–249.)
Galland, Isaac. Letter, Chillicothe, OH, to Samuel Swasey, North Haverhill, NH, 22 July 1839. CCLA.
Rohrbough, Malcolm J. The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789–1837. New York: Ocford University Press, 1968.
By the late 1830s, many banks in the eastern United States had expanded their spheres of influence westward, and most western banks depended on eastern capital for financial stability. (Bodenhorn, History of Banking in Antebellum America, 185–189, 193–195; Knodell, “Interregional Financial Integration,” 291.)
Bodenhorn, Howard. A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Knodell, Jane. “Interregional Financial Integration and the Banknote Market: The Old Northwest, 1815–1845.” Journal of Economic History 48, no. 2 (June 1988): 287–298.
See Ezekiel 37:19. Post recorded using this passage in a sermon nearly four months prior to his letter to JS. (Post, Journal, 15 Apr. 1838.)
Post, Stephen. Journals, 1835–1879. Stephen Post, Papers, 1835–1921. CHL. MS 1304, box 6.
Ephraim was one of two sons of Joseph, son of Jacob, in the Old Testament. Several JS revelations in 1831 associated descent from Ephraim with membership in the church. (See, for example, Revelation, 11 Sept. 1831 [D&C 64:36]; Revelation, 29 Oct. 1831 [D&C 66]; Revelation, 3 Nov. 1831 [D&C 133:30–34]; and Mauss, “In Search of Ephraim,” 145–147.)
Mauss, Armand. “In Search of Ephraim: Traditional Mormon Conceptions of Lineage and Race.” Journal of Mormon History 25, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 131–173.
The Book of Mormon states that the Nephites and the Lamanites were descendants of Manasseh, a son of Joseph in the Old Testament. (See Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 248 [Alma 10:3].)
TEXT: “[Page torn]cord”.
The Book of Mormon and JS’s revelations taught that the prophecy in Ezekiel chapter 37 of the Old Testament, which mentions the “stick of Joseph,” was a reference to the writings of the Nephites in the Book of Mormon. (See Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 67 [2 Nephi 3:11–12]; and Revelation, ca. Aug. 1835 [D&C 27:5].)