Footnotes
Whiting, “Paper-Making in New England,” 309; Gravell et al., American Watermarks, 235.
Whiting, William. “Paper-Making in New England.” In The New England States: Their Constitutional, Judicial, Educational, Commercial, Professional and Industrial History, edited by William T. Davis, vol. 1, pp. 303–333. Boston: D. H. Hurd, 1897.
Gravell, Thomas L., George Miller, and Elizabeth Walsh. American Watermarks: 1690–1835. 2nd ed. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.
See Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; and Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Jenson, Autobiography, 389; Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 48–52, 55.
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.
Bitton, David, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.
See the full bibliographic entry for Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 1839–1877, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Discourse, 24 Mar. 1844–A; JS, Journal, 24 Mar. 1844; Historian’s Office, Journal, 24 Mar. 1844; Abiathar Williams, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 27 Mar. 1844, and Merinus G. Eaton, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 27 Mar. 1844, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [2]; Law, Record of Doings, 29 Mar. 1844, in Cook, William Law, 48; “Preamble,” Nauvoo Expositor, 7 June 1844, [2].
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.
Council of Fifty, “Record,” 19 Mar. 1844. Rigdon had previously addressed the Council of Fifty on “the subject of the kingdom of God.” At a council meeting held on 5 April 1844, Rigdon observed that he “entertained no fears that legal exceptions to this council could or would be taken” and asserted that “there was nothing done here but he was willing should be proclaimed on the house tops.” (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 26 Mar. and 5 Apr. 1844.)
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 45. During winter 1843–1844, work on the temple halted, leaving the unfinished building with “walls . . . as high as the arches of the first tier of windows all round.” (Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 40–41.)
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Thompson, Autobiographical Sketch, 7–8; see also Editorial, Millennial Star, June 1844, 5:15. The exact date when Thompson felt impressed to raise money for the temple is unknown. Her autobiography suggests that it occurred after her marriage to Hyrum Smith in August 1843 and before Hyrum’s endorsement of the plan in the Millennial Star, which was dated 25 December 1843. Thompson and her sister, Mary Fielding Smith, “took down and kept a record of all the names” of those who contributed.
Thompson, Mercy Rachel Fielding. Autobiographical Sketch, 1880. CHL. MS 4580.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 43.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Woodruff, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
JS, Journal, 6–7 Apr. 1844; Richards, Reminiscences and Journal, 6 Apr. 1844; Willard Richards, Journal, 6–7 Apr. 1844; Woodruff, Journal, 7 Apr. 1844; “Conference,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 10 Apr. 1844, [2]. Among those in attendance were a group of American Indians. According to William Clayton, this group consisted of five Potawatomi, while Willard Richards recorded that there were four “Lamanites” and an interpreter present on the speaker’s stand. On 4 April 1844, eleven Potawatomi, who were seeking help to avoid losing their land, visited the Council of Fifty. It was probably members of this same group who sat on the stand at the April conference. Several Potawatomi delegations had previously traveled to Nauvoo to ask JS and the Latter-day Saints for assistance and advice in their struggles with white Americans. (Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6 Apr. 1844; JS, Journal, 6 Apr. 1844; Council of Fifty, “Record,” 4 Apr. 1844; JS, Journal, 18 Apr. 1843; Woodruff, Journal, 26 June 1843; Clayton, Journal, 18 Apr. 1843; 26 and 28 Aug. 1843; Letter to Paicouchaiby and Other Potawatomis, 28 Aug. 1843.)
Richards, Samuel W. Reminiscences and Journal, ca. 1843–1845. Samuel W. Richards, Papers, 1839–1909. CHL. MS 1841.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
During his discourse, Rigdon referenced the bad health he had suffered over the previous five years. He had contracted malaria while living in Commerce (later Nauvoo) in August 1839, and his poor health continued in subsequent years, limiting his activities. (Letter to John C. Bennett, 8 Aug. 1840; Sidney Rigdon, Nauvoo, IL, to H. W. Miller, 8 July 1840, in Times and Seasons, July 1840, 1:134–136; JS, Journal, 6 Apr. 1843.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Taylor echoed a series of appeals written by Latter-day Saints to their native states in 1843–1844. These entreaties, such as JS’s appeal to Vermont, were meant to invoke sympathy for the Saints and win support for their renewed efforts to obtain redress for their losses suffered during the Missouri expulsion of 1838–1839. Similar language was also used in General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States. Taylor’s comparison of the kingdom of God with the kingdoms of the world also reflected ideas in an editorial on theocracy published in the Times and Seasons in 1842, which may have been authored by Taylor. (Rogers, “Mormon Appeals for Redress and Social Justice, 1843–44,” 36–39; General Joseph Smith’s Appeal to the Green Mountain Boys, 21 Nov.–ca. 3 Dec. 1843; Parley P. Pratt, An Appeal to the Inhabitants of the State of New York . . . [Nauvoo, IL: John Taylor, (1844)]; Benjamin Andrews, “An Appeal to the People of the State of Maine,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Jan. 1844, [1]; Sidney Rigdon, “To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, in Legislative Capacity Assembled,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 31 Jan. 1844, [1]; Phineas Richards, “An Appeal, to the Inhabitants of Massachusetts,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 7 Feb. 1844, [2]; [Alphonso Young], “An Appeal to the State of Tennessee, by A. Young,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 28 Feb. 1844, [1]; General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States, ca. 26 Jan.–7 Feb. 1844; “The Government of God,” Times and Seasons, 15 July 1842, 3:855–858.)
Robers, Brent M. “To the ‘Honest and Patriotic Sons of Liberty’: Mormon Appeals for Redress and Social Justice, 1843–44.” Journal of Mormon History 39, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 36–67.
Pratt, Parley P. An Appeal to the Inhabitants of the State of New York, Letter to Queen Victoria: (Reprinted from the Tenth European Edition,): The Fountain of Knowledge, Immortality of the Body, and Intelligence and Affection. Nauvoo, IL: John Taylor, 1844.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Obituary for King Follett, Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Mar. 1844, [2]; see also Discourse, 7 Apr. 1844. JS had meant to preach a funeral sermon for Follett on 5 April but was unable to because of poor health. On 27 February 1844, Follett had been “stoning up a well” some fifteen feet underground when a rope lowering a bucket of rocks snapped and Follett was struck by the falling objects. Although the blow did not kill him instantly, Follett died eleven days later, having “suffered much.” He was buried on 10 March “in due Masonic form.” (Woodruff, Journal, 5 Apr. 1844; Notice, Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Mar. 1844, [2]; Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book, 10 Mar. 1844; see also Historian’s Office, Journal, 10 Mar. 1844.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book. / “Record of Na[u]voo Lodge Under Dispensation,” 1842–1846. CHL. MS 3436
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
The proclamation JS made during his 8 April discourse modified the Latter-day Saint practice of gathering. Previously, JS had instructed the Saints to gather in either Hancock County, Illinois, or Lee County, Iowa Territory. Stakes outside of these counties had been discontinued in 1841, although branches of the church continued to function in various parts of the United States. Later, in April 1843, JS counseled the Saints to leave Iowa Territory and settle in Illinois. (Letter to the Saints Abroad, 24 May 1841; Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 Apr. 1843; see also Discourse, 8 Apr. 1844.)
On 7 April 1844, JS spoke for two hours and fifteen minutes. On 8 April, Willard Richards recorded that JS brought the meeting to order at ten o’clock in the morning, after which William W. Phelps read 1 Corinthians 15 and Brigham Young said a prayer. JS then preached until 10:40, meaning that his discourse lasted less than forty minutes. (JS, Journal, 7–8 Apr. 1844.)
JS, Journal, 8–9 Apr. 1844; Clayton, Journal, 8–9 Apr. 1844.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 9 Apr. 1844.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Ellen Briggs Douglas, Letter to Family Members, 14 Apr. 1844, in Derr et al., First Fifty Years of Relief Society, 157–162.
Derr, Jill Mulvay, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds. The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.
Sally Carlisle Randall, Nauvoo, IL, to “Dear Friends,” 21 Apr. 1844, CHL.
Randall, Sally. Letters, 1843–1852. Typescript. CHL.
Law, Record of Doings, 1 June 1844, in Cook, William Law, 49.
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.
In his account of the April conference, William Goforth observed that four clerks were at work recording the “masterly sermons.” (William Goforth [Sissimus, pseud.], Nauvoo, IL, 10 Apr. 1844, Letter to the Editor, Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 May 1844, [2].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 6–9 Apr. 1844.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6–8 Apr. 1844; JS, Journal, 6–9 Apr. 1844.
Historian’s Office. General Church Minutes, 1839–1877. CHL
Woodruff, Journal, 6–9 Apr. 1844. The quality of Woodruff’s handwriting suggests that his account of the conference is a fair copy. Woodruff recalled in 1877 that “he had written” JS’s 7 April 1844 discourse “on the crown of his hat, standing in the congregation.” This suggests that at least on one occasion during the conference he took notes, which he then probably used to create the more polished account in his journal. (Bleak, Annals of the Southern Utah Mission, 10 June 1877.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Bleak, James Godson. Annals of the Southern Utah Mission, ca. 1898–1907. CHL. MS 318.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 10, 23–26, and 28 Apr. 1844; see also the docket for the 6 April 1844 minutes in Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6–9 Apr. 1844. Apparently, by 10 April there were plans to publish the discourses from the conference. (William Goforth [Sissimus, pseud.], Nauvoo, IL, 10 Apr. 1844, Letter to the Editor, Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 May 1844, [2].)
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Historian’s Office. General Church Minutes, 1839–1877. CHL
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Docket and notation in handwriting of Thomas Bullock.