Footnotes

1. [1]

   Minute Book 1, Index, [1].

2. [2]

   Williams actually appears to have begun scribal work for JS as early as February 1832, around which time he began copying revelations into Revelation Book 2. (See Historical Introduction to Revelation Book 2; Frederick G. Williams, “Statement of Facts Relative to J. Smith and Myself,” no date, [1], Frederick G. Williams, Papers, CHL; and Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832.)

   Williams, Frederick G. Papers, 1834–1842. CHL. MS 782.

3. [3]

   Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832.

4. [4]

   Coltrin, Diary and Notebook, 1 Aug. 1832; see also Jennings, “Consequential Counselor,” 183–186. In an undated list of debts owed to him, Williams included time for “writing,” beginning “the first august 1832.” (Frederick G. Williams, “Account on Farm,” no date, Frederick G. Williams, Papers, CHL.)

   Coltrin, Zebedee. Diary and Notebook, 1832–1833. Zebedee Coltrin, Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443, fd. 2.

   Jennings, Erin B. “The Consequential Counselor: Restoring the Root(s) of Jesse Gause.” Journal of Mormon History 34 (Spring 2008): 182–227.

   Williams, Frederick G. Papers, 1834–1842. CHL. MS 782.

5. [5]

   See Revelation, 29 Aug. 1832 [D&C 99]; and Revelation, 22–23 Sept. 1832, in Revelation Book 2, p. 31 [D&C 84]. These copies were probably made soon after the revelations were dictated. Williams also spent much of the latter part of 1832 and the first part of 1833 writing for JS’s revision of the Bible. (See Historical Introduction to Revelation Book 2; and Faulring et al., Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible, 70–72.)

   Faulring, Scott H., Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds. Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004.

6. [6]

   Revelation, 5 Jan. 1833; see also JS, Journal, 3 Dec. 1832; and Minutes, 22–23 Jan. 1833.

7. [7]

   The minutes of a 22 January 1833 meeting also list Williams as “assistant scribe.” Williams used that designation in some of the revelations he copied into Revelation Book 2—revelations that were probably copied between late January and late February 1833. (Minutes, 22–23 Jan. 1833; Revelation, 6 Dec. 1832 [D&C 86]; Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 [D&C 88:1–126]; and Revelation, 3 Jan. 1833 [D&C 88:127–137].)

8. [8]

   See, for example, Minutes, 16 Nov. 1832.