Footnotes
“Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Jenson, Autobiography, 192, 389; Cannon, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891; Jenson, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891 and 19 Oct. 1897; Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 47–52.
Jenson, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Jenson: Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . . Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938.
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
Jenson, Andrew. Journals, 1864–1941. Andrew Jenson, Autobiography and Journals, 1864–1941. CHL.
Bitton, David, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878, microfilm, Aug. 1975, CHL.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
See the full bibliographic entry for Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 1840–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Four days earlier, Fields Jarvis wrote to JS offering him ferry rights in or near Shokokon. It is unclear, however, whether Cowan’s offer on 10 February was connected to Jarvis’s letter. (Letter from Fields Jarvis, 6 Feb. 1843.)
In warning Saints in the eastern United States about Cowan’s pretentions, Young described Cowan as “all love— Charm— Calculated to magnetize” and argued that he only sought to profit off JS and the Saints. It is unclear whether JS shared Young’s negative assessment of Cowan’s character. On several occasions in 1843 and 1844, Cowan met or corresponded with local and national politicians apparently on behalf of JS or the church. It is unclear whether JS sanctioned Cowan’s activities. (Boston Conference, Minutes, 11 Sept. 1843, 16–17, Historian’s Office, Minutes and Reports [Local Units], CHL; John Chambers, Burlington, Iowa Territory, to John Cowan, [Bald Bluff, IL], 10 Mar. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL; John Cowan, New Orleans, LA, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 23 Jan. 1844; John Cowan, New York City, NY, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 31 May 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
Historian’s Office. Minutes and Reports, 1840–1886. CHL.
After JS confronted Adams with the charge of adultery in September 1842, Adams confessed and promised to reform. However, in January 1843, while Adams was preaching in Boston, his wife, Caroline Youngs Adams, informed JS that George’s mistress had given birth to a child and she requested that JS privately recall Adams to Nauvoo for church discipline. (Letter from George J. Adams and David Rogers, 11 Oct. 1842; Letter from Caroline Youngs Adams, ca. 15 Jan. 1843.)