Footnotes

1. [1]

   Letter from John Whitmer, 29 July 1833; [Edward Partridge], “A History, of the Persecution,” Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:17–19.

   Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

2. [2]

   Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson Co., MO, 18 Aug. 1833.

3. [3]

   See Parley P. Pratt et al., “‘The Mormons’ So Called,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Extra, Feb. 1834, [1]–[2].

   The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.

4. [4]

   JS, Journal, 25 Nov. 1833.

5. [5]

   Letter to Edward Partridge et al., 10 Dec. 1833.

6. [6]

   Letter from Edward Partridge, between 14 and 19 Nov. 1833.

7. [7]

   See Letter to Edward Partridge et al., 10 Dec. 1833.

8. [8]

   Letter to Edward Partridge, 5 Dec. 1833; Letter to Edward Partridge et al., 10 Dec. 1833.

9. [9]

   Letter to Edward Partridge et al., 10 Dec. 1833. After the violence in Jackson County in July 1833, JS stated that such tribulations were not a surprise to him and that he could “tell all the why’s & wherefores” of the “calamities,” but the actual expulsion of church members from Jackson County was a different issue, as the expulsion jeopardized the establishment of the city of Zion and the gathering of the Saints in Missouri. (Letter to Vienna Jaques, 4 Sept. 1833.)

10. [10]

    Ames, Autobiography, [10].

    Ames, Ira. Autobiography and Journal, 1858. CHL. MS 6055.

11. [11]

    Verily, I Say unto You, concerning Your Brethren Who Have Been Afflicted, [Kirtland, OH: ca. Jan. 1834], copy at CHL [D&C 101]. A March 1834 letter from JS to Edward Partridge, William W. Phelps, and others indicated that church leaders published the revelation because it had gone “into the hands of the world by stealth, through the means of false brethren,” and they worried that it would “reach the ears of the President and Governor, with a false coloring, being misrepresented.” Therefore, they decided to publish it and send it themselves “in its own proper light.” (Letter to Edward Partridge et al., 30 Mar. 1834, underlining in original.)

    Verily, I say unto you, concerning your brethren who have been afflicted. [Kirtland, OH: ca. Jan. 1834]. Copy at CHL.

12. [12]

    Revelation Book 1, pp. 183–189 [D&C 101]; Burket, Journal, [1]–[24].

    Burket, George. Journal, 1835–1836. George Burket Collection, 1835–1870. CHL. MS 22654, fd. 1.

13. [13]

    JS, Journal, 19 Dec. 1833.

14. [14]

    Letter to the Church in Clay Co., MO, 22 Jan. 1834.

15. [15]

    “A Scrap of Mormonism,” Painesville (OH) Telegraph, 24 Jan. 1834, [1].

    Painesville Telegraph. Painesville, OH. 1822–1986.

16. [16]

    Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, 155.

    Howe, Eber D. Mormonism Unvailed: Or, A Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion, from Its Rise to the Present Time. With Sketches of the Characters of Its Propagators, and a Full Detail of the Manner in Which the Famous Golden Bible Was Brought before the World. To Which Are Added, Inquiries into the Probability That the Historical Part of the Said Bible Was Written by One Solomon Spalding, More Than Twenty Years Ago, and by Him Intended to Have Been Published as a Romance. Painesville, OH: By the author, 1834.

17. [17]

    Letter to the Church in Clay Co., MO, 22 Jan. 1834. Missouri leaders sent a petition to President Jackson in April 1834 and enclosed a handbill with it, but the handbill appears to have been a recitation of the attacks in Missouri that had been published as an extra of The Evening and the Morning Star in February 1834. Neither the petition from Kirtland to Governor Dunklin nor the possible petition from Kirtland to President Andrew Jackson is extant. (Edward Partridge et al., Petition to Andrew Jackson, 10 Apr. 1834, copy, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL; Parley P. Pratt et al., “‘The Mormons’ So Called,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Extra, Feb. 1834, [1]–[2].)

    Phelps, William W. Collection of Missouri Documents, 1833–1837. CHL. MS 657.

    The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.

18. [18]

    Minutes, 24 Feb. 1834.

19. [19]

    Minutes, 17 Mar. 1834; Woodruff, Journal, 1 May 1834. The Camp of Israel was later known as Zion’s Camp. (See Account with the Church of Christ, ca. 11–29 Aug. 1834; and Backman, Profile, appendix E.)

    Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.

    Backman, Milton V., Jr., comp. A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio, and Members of Zion’s Camp, 1830–1839: Vital Statistics and Sources. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1983.