Footnotes
This six-leaf gathering was either a binding error or the result of one sheet coming loose from the binding before the book was inscribed, as the book’s inscription and pagination runs through this gathering without skipping any text or page numbers.
The journal entries are inscribed on pages 26, 31, 33, 36, 39, 43, 44, 48, 56–61, 66–67, 88–95, 122–135, and 164–215.
Footnotes
Thompson died on 27 August 1841. (“Death of Col. Robert B. Thompson,” Times and Seasons, 1 Sept. 1841, 2:519.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The six canonized revelations constitute, in order of their recording by Thompson, sections 124, 125, 105, 111, 87, and 103 in the current Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The three uncanonized revelations include one dated 20 March 1841 and two dictated on 12 January 1838 before JS departed Ohio and moved to Missouri.
See JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; Richards, Journal, 1 July 1842; and Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 30.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, 1845. CHL
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 30–31.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, 1845. CHL
For more on this division of labor, see Smith, “Book of the Law of the Lord,” 131–163.
Smith, Alex D. “The Book of the Law of the Lord,” Journal of Mormon History 38 (Fall 2012): 131–163.
The Joseph Smith Papers Project has labeled this second volume “Book of the Law of the Lord, Book B.” See Historical Introduction to Book of the Law of the Lord, Book B.
For more on the Nauvoo penny fund, see Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A, 216.
See Book of the Law of the Lord, Book B, 551.
Trustee-in-Trust. Tithing and Donation Record, 1844 May–1846 January. CHL.
[£ S D] | $ cts | ||
1845 | Amount brought up | £10–6–6½ | |
Ap[ri]l | Jemima Howard | £0–0–3½ | |
2 | Mary Howard | £0–0–3½ | |
[2] | Betty Shipley | £0–0–7 | |
[2] | Ann Swindles | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Ellen Bardsley | £0–0–7 | |
[2] | Hannah Moors | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Mary [Moors] | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Susan Driver | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Rachel Bradsham | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Sarah [Bradsham] | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Betty [Bradsham] | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Mary P. Adrhead | £0–0–3½ | |
[2] | Susan Sherwood | £0–1–7 | |
[2] | Martha Higgins | £0–0–7 | |
[2] | Hannah [Higgins] | £0–0–7 | |
[2] | Betty Adrhead | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Hannah Rewbottom | £0–0–3 | |
[2] | Elizabeth Lyon | £0–2–1½ | |
[2] | Mary Stowport Junr | £0–0–3 | |
[2] | Ann Slater | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Sarah Bostook | £0–0–5 | |
[2] | Maria Allen | £0–0–3½ | |
[2] | Alice Ginne | £0–0–2 | |
[2] | Jane Woodcock | £0–0–2½ | |
[2] | Sarah Kellitt | £0–0–2 | |
[2] | Mary Booth | £0–0–1 | |
[2] | Susannah Adrhead | £0–0–2 | |
[2] | Ann Bray | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Ashton Under Lyne Branch | ||
[2] | Catherine Lowe | £0–0–7 | |
[2] | Mary Moss | £0–0–6 | |
[2] | Betsy Moss | £0–0–6 | |
[2] | Ann Moss | £0–0–6 | |
[2] | Martha Lord | £0–1–0 | |
[2] | Mary Lord | £0–1–0 | |
[2] | Mary Davies | £0–0–4 | |
[2] | Sarah Harrop | £0–0–3 | |
[2] | Betsy Heap | £0–2–6 | |
[2] | Mary Moss | £0–0–7 | |
[2] | Margaret Moss | £0–0–7 | |
[2] | Nancy Abiston | £0–0–3 | |
[2] | Emelina Lees | £0–1–2 | |
[2] | Mary Broadbent | £0–0–8 | |
[2] | Alice Hogle | £0–0–8 | |
£11–9–10½ | |||
[£ L D] | $ cts | ||
Amount brought up | £11–9–10½ | ||
Apl 2d | Sarah Hogle | £0–0–8 | |
[Apl 2d] | Ann Ebinson | £0–0–3 | |
[Apl 2d] | Martha Whitworth | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2d] | Lydia [Whitworth] | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2d] | Charlotte [Whitworth] | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2d] | Fanny [Whitworth] | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2d] | Sarah Ogden | £0–0–3 | |
[Apl 2d] | Betsy Heaton | £0–0–2½ | |
[Apl 2d] | Sarah Ann Heaton | £0–0–2½ | |
[Apl 2d] | Sarah Heaton | £0–0–2½ | |
[Apl 2d] | Hannah France | £0–0–½ | |
[Apl 2d] | Elizabeth Jones | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | £0–0–6 | ||
[Apl 2d] | Ann [Greenhalgh] | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2d] | Alice Cooper | £0–0–6½ | |
[Apl 2d] | Eliza Andrews | £0–2–0 | |
[Apl 2d] | Eliza Bradshaw | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2d] | Sarah Adwin | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2d] | Sarah [Adwin] | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2d] | Mary Lees | £0–2–0 | |
[Apl 2d] | Rebecca France | £0–0–2½ | |
[Apl 2d] | Mary Ann [France] | £0–0–1 | |
[Apl 2d] | Mottran Branch | ||
[Apl 2d] | Betty Howarth | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | Mary Scott | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | Ann Wood | £0–0–½ | |
[Apl 2d] | Alice Hulme) not yet baptized | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | Hannah Hulme) [not yet baptized] | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | Elizabeth Bradsley ) [not yet baptized] | £0–0–6 | |
Eccles Branch | |||
[Apl 2d] | Sarah Grimshaw | £0–1–1 | |
[Apl 2d] | Ann Ashworth | £0–0–11 | |
[Apl 2d] | John Lamas | £0–1–0 | |
[Apl 2d] | A Friend | £0–2–0 | |
[Apl 2d] | Thomas Birch | £0–1–0 | |
Summerseat Branch | |||
[Apl 2d] | Margaret Grimshaw | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | £0–0–6 | ||
[Apl 2d] | Jane Kenyon | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | Susan [Kenyon] | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | Ellen Barnes | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2d] | £0–0–6 | ||
£12–12–4 |
British currency in the nineteenth century consisted of coins of varying values. The primary currency used was the pound sterling, often in the form of a gold sovereign. Smaller coins called shillings and pence were also commonly used. A pound was traditionally divided into twenty shillings, and each shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence. The two smallest coins were divisions of a penny, into four farthings or two halfpennies. The abbreviation used in ledgers and other financial records for this form of currency was “£ s d.” The pound symbol (£) derived from the word “Libra,” meaning “a pound” in Latin. The “s” was an abbreviation for the Latin “solidus,” which in English was referred to as a “shilling.” The “d” was an abbreviation of “denarius,” or a Roman silver coin, which was also initially used as the name of the English silver penny. While other countries in the British empire abandoned this system, currency in the United Kingdom of Great Britain was not decimalized and standardized into units of one hundred until 1971. (“Pound,” in Oxford English Dictionary, 7:1202; “Solidus,” in Oxford English Dictionary, 10:401; “Denarius,” in Oxford English Dictionary, 3:191; Sutherland, English Coinage 600–1900; see also “Pounds, Shillings and Pence,” The Royal Mint Museum, accessed 3 July 2023, https://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/journal/history/pounds-shillings-and-pence/.)
The Oxford English Dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, W. A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions. 12 vols. 1933. Reprint, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Sutherland, Carol Humphrey Vivian. English Coinage 600–1900. London: B. T. Batsford, 1973.
The Royal Mint Museum. https://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/journal/history/pounds-shillings-and-pence/.
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