Footnotes
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Footnotes
Mason, “Decree in Partition of the Half Breed Tract,” 442–443; Wick, “Struggle for the Half-Breed Tract,” 16–29; Flanders, Nauvoo, 28–29.
Mason, Charles. “Decree in Partition of the Half Breed Tract in Lee County, Iowa, 1840.” Annals of Iowa 14, no. 6 (Fall 1924): 424–460.
Wick, B. L. “The Struggle for the Half-Breed Tract.” Annals of Iowa 7, no. 1 (Apr. 1905): 16–29.
Flanders, Robert Bruce. Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965.
Mason, “Decree in Partition of the Half Breed Tract,” 449–455.
Mason, Charles. “Decree in Partition of the Half Breed Tract in Lee County, Iowa, 1840.” Annals of Iowa 14, no. 6 (Fall 1924): 424–460.
Mason, “Decree in Partition of the Half Breed Tract,” 455; Lee Co., IA, Land Records, 1836–1961, vol. 3, pp. 352–353, 14 May 1842, microfilm 959,239, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
Mason, Charles. “Decree in Partition of the Half Breed Tract in Lee County, Iowa, 1840.” Annals of Iowa 14, no. 6 (Fall 1924): 424–460.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Nickerson may have been motivated by family interests to press his claim in January 1843. On 10 January 1843, Nickerson’s brother, Levi, purchased sixty-five acres on island 7, the third largest island across from Nauvoo, where he was apparently already living at the time of purchase. (Lee Co., IA, Land Records, 1836–1961, vol. 3, p. 575, 10 Jan. 1843, microfilm 959,239, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
“The Memoirs of President Joseph Smith,” Saints’ Herald, 4 Dec. 1934, 1544–1545.
Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.
The high council trial that JS attended the previous day was likewise held in the main room, or lodge room, of JS’s store. (JS, Journal, 18 Feb. 1843.)
For example, JS’s journal recorded that one day earlier JS had attended the high council trial of Josiah Ells, but there is no record of JS’s attendance in the high council minutes for that date. (See JS, Journal, 18 Feb. 1843; and Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, 18 Feb. 1843, 31–32.)
Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, ca. 1839–ca. 1843. Fair copy. In Oliver Cowdery, Diary, Jan.–Mar. 1836. CHL.
The day after the high council meeting, while presiding over a session of the mayor’s court, JS saw two boys fighting out of the window. He promptly halted the court, went outside, and separated the two boys, all while lecturing the bystanders “for not interfering in such cases” and humorously stating that “no body is allowed to fight in this city but me.” (JS, Journal, 20 Feb. 1843.)
Mason, “Decree in Partition of the Half Breed Tract,” 455; Lee Co., IA, Land Records, 1836–1961, vol. 3, pp. 352–353, 14 May 1842, microfilm 959,239, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; JS, Journal, 19 Feb. 1843; “The Memoirs of President Joseph Smith,” Saints’ Herald, 4 Dec. 1934, 1544–1545.
Mason, Charles. “Decree in Partition of the Half Breed Tract in Lee County, Iowa, 1840.” Annals of Iowa 14, no. 6 (Fall 1924): 424–460.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.
Snider was a substitute for Samuel Bent. (Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, 28 Jan. 1843, 26; 25 Feb. 1843, 1.)
Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, ca. 1839–ca. 1843. Fair copy. In Oliver Cowdery, Diary, Jan.–Mar. 1836. CHL.
Higbee was a substitute for Henry G. Sherwood. (Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, 19 Nov. 1842, 15; 25 Feb. 1843, 1.)
Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, ca. 1839–ca. 1843. Fair copy. In Oliver Cowdery, Diary, Jan.–Mar. 1836. CHL.
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