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 forward | £<15–4–7> | |
Ap[ri]l 2 | Maria Shelmerdine | £0–2–2 | |
[Apl 2] | Sarah Hawkins | £0–2–2 | |
[Apl 2] | Ann Margaret [Esplin] Burgess | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2] | Emelia Snape | £0–0–3½ | |
[Apl 2] | Anna Lee | £0–0–4½ | |
[Apl 2] | Ellen Lee | £0–0–7½ | |
[Apl 2] | Alice Walker | £0–0–6½ | |
[Apl 2] | Sarah Wilson | £0–0–4½ | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Ann Ratcliffe | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2] | Ann Cope | £0–0–3 | |
[Apl 2] | Sarah Aveyard | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2] | Sarah Hammond | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2] | Nancy Turnbull | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2] | Ann Turnbull Senr | £0–0–4½ | |
[Apl 2] | Ann [Turnbull] Jr | £0–0–3½ | |
[Apl 2] | Maria [Turnbull] | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2] | Elizabeth Ratcliffe | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2] | Anna Summers | £0–0–5½ | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Ann Powers | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Gad | £0–2–2 | |
[Apl 2] | Sarah Ann Ashton | £0–0–5½ | |
[Apl 2] | Ann Roberts | £0–0–2½ | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Roberts | £0–0–5½ | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Horrocks | £0–0–1 | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Milane | £0–0–3 | |
[Apl 2] | Susannah Wheamly | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Ann Evan’s | £0–0–3 | |
[Apl 2] | Ann Butterworth | £0–0–3 | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Barber Senr | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2] | Mary [Barber] | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2] | Nancy Sharp | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2] | Elizabeth Spur | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Stafford | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2] | Mary N. Falkner | £0–0–10 | |
[Apl 2] | Susannah Wood | £0–0–5½ | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Rattery | £0–0–10 | |
[Apl 2] | Sarah Ann Wood | £0–0–5½ | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Wood | £0–0–3½ | |
[Apl 2] | Elizabeth Davis | £0–0–4½ | |
[Apl 2] | Maria Wood | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2] | Margaret Porritt | £0–0–5 | |
[Apl 2] | Jean Mean | £0–0–4½ | |
[Apl 2] | Mary Brown | £0–0–2½ | |
[Apl 2] | Nancy Warrington | £0–0–1 | |
[Apl 2] | Phebe Barlow | £0–4–4 | |
<£16–11–4½> | |||
£ S D | $ cts | ||
1845 | Amount brought forward | <£16–11–4½> | |
Apl 2. | Ellen Shaw | £0–0–6 | |
[Apl 2.] | Elizabeth Hawkin’s Ser | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2.] | Elizabeth [Hawkin’s] | £0–0–4 | |
[Apl 2.] | Mary Hawkin’s | £0–0–3 | |
[Apl 2.] | Ellen Keaton | £0–0–4½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Alice Smith | £0–0–3½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Mary Ann Pass | £0–0–3½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Mary Allen | £0–0–2 | |
[Apl 2.] | Elizabeth Walker | £0–0–2 | |
[Apl 2.] | Harriet Barber | £0–2–2 | |
Radcliffe Branch | |||
[Apl 2.] | Ann Heap @ £0–0–3 each week | £0–4–3 | |
[Apl 2.] | Ellen Haworth@ £0–0–3 [each week] | £0–4–3 | |
[Apl 2.] | Ann Allen @ £0–0–½ [each week] | £0–0–8½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Mary Allen [at £0–0–½ each week] | £0–0–8½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Hannah Allen [at £0–0–½ each week] | £0–0–8½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Alice Allen [at £0–0–½ each week] | £0–0–8½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Ann Whitaker [at £0–0–½ each week] | £0–0–8½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Ann Hulton [at £0–0–½ each week] | £0–0–8½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Alice Lunn [at £0–0–½ each week] | £0–0–8½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Ann Makinson | £0–0–8½ | |
[Apl 2.] | Nancy Foulds | £0–0–4½ | |
£<17–10–9½> | |||
$<84.26½> | |||
Amt brought from Folio 225.— | <$437.35> | ||
[April] 4 | Margaret Atkinson | $0.50 | |
[4] | Margaret Matthews | $0.50 | |
[4] | Eliza C. Hall | $0.50 | |
[4] | $0.50 | ||
[4] | Clarissa Jane Webb | $0.50 | |
[4] | Elizabeth Lee | $0.50 | |
[4] | Sophia Cross | $0.50 | |
[4] | Maria Priscilla Denny | $0.55 | |
[4] | Serene Ghents Anderson | $1.00 | |
[4] | Elmira S. Taft | $0.50 | |
5 | Polly Graybill | $0.50 | |
[5] | Catherine Gaytrost | $0.85 | |
[5] | Sally White | $0.50 | |
[5] | Betsy Hatch | $0.50 | |
7 | Sarah Gallagher | $0.50 | |
[7] | Hulda Kennedy | $0.52 | |
[7] | Nancy Clark | $0.52 | |
[7] | Appolonia C. Clark | $0.52 | |
[7] | Jane Bos-cow | $0.50 | |
8 | Charlotte Jackson | $0.75 | |
$532.83¾ |
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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