Footnotes
Only the portion of the tithing records donated during JS’s tenure as trustee-in-trust are featured here. After JS’s death on 27 June 1844, it took time to appoint new people to the many offices he held. JS remained the official trustee for the church, with William Clayton acting as an agent and trustee pro tem, until August 1844. On 12 August George Miller and Newel K. Whitney filed their certificate of appointment as the new trustees for the church. Thus, while the record book contains 758 inscribed pages, only the first 61 pages are transcribed and published here, ending on 12 August 1844. (Clayton, Journal, 7 July 1844; Richards, Journal, 9 Aug. 1844; Newel K. Whitney and George Miller, Appointment as Trustees, 12 Aug. 1844, Nauvoo Trustees Papers, 1844–1848, CHL.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Nauvoo Trustees Papers, 1844–1848. CHL.
Entries on page 208 were continued on page 215, entries on page 214 were continued on page 541, and entries on page 540 were continued on page 561.
See Clayton, Journal, 10 December 1844; and Book of the Law of the Lord, Book B, 169.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
“Historian’s Office Inventory G. S. L. City March 19. 1858,” [1].
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Historian’s Office, “Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Inventory. Historians Office. G. S. L. City April 1.1857,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Historian’s Office Inventory G. S. L. City March 19. 1858,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Historian’s Office Catalogue Book March 1858,” [11], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Historian’s Office Journal, 24 Mar. 1858, “List of Books from Brigham Young’s Office.”
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970, First Presidency, General Administration Files, CHL.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970. First Presidency, General Administration Files, 1921–1972. CHL.
Letter of transfer, Salt Lake City, UT, 8 Jan. 2010, CHL.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970. First Presidency, General Administration Files, 1921–1972. CHL.
Footnotes
A notation on the bottom of page 231 reads: “Carried to Record B. Page 551.” (Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A, 231.)
The last entry on page 477 of Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A is dated 6 May 1844. Hiram Clark had returned to Nauvoo from Great Britain in late April and brought with him tithing and donations from the British Saints. It appears that recording these donations would have required more space than was available in Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A, so they were saved until they started a second record book, referred to here as Book of the Law of the Lord, Book B. The donations were recorded on the first five and a half pages of that new book. After these donations, tithing entries from 6 May 1844 as found in Tithing Day Book B were then recorded in Book of the Law of the Lord, Book B. (See “Tithing Day Book B,” 276, Trustee-in-Trust, Tithing Daybooks, CHL.)
Tithing and Donation Record, 1844–1846. CHL.
Brigham Young, Discourse, 16 Sept. 1860, George D. Watt, Papers, CHL, as transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth; Joseph F. Smith, 7 Apr. 1901, Conference Reports. . ., 1901, 70.
Watt, George D. Papers, ca. 1846–1865. CHL.
Conference Reports of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1901. (Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing, n.d.)
Clayton, Journal, 7 July 1844.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Whitney and Miller had been elected trustees by church leaders on 9 August. (Richards, Journal, 9 Aug. 1844; Newel K. Whitney and George Miller, Appointment as Trustees, 12 Aug. 1844, Nauvoo Trustees Papers, 1844–1848, CHL.)
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Nauvoo Trustees Papers, 1844–1848. CHL.
The entire record book is digitized and available through the Church History Library catalog.
| 1844 | £ S D | $ cts | |
| To Amount brought up | |||
| Elizabeth [Bantern] Bradbury | £0–7–0 | ||
| £1–2–6 | |||
| William Chadwick | £0–5–0 | ||
| Harriet Grimshaw | £0–10–0 | ||
| Sister [blank] Grundy | £0–1–0 | ||
| £ S D | $ cts | ||
| To amount brought forward | |||
| C [blank] Riding | £0–0–1 | ||
| Henry Rishton | £0–5–0 | ||
| Ann Smith | £0–3–6 | ||
| <name unknown> | £1–0–0½ | ||
| May 6 | Received of $1.25 in Labor by on tithing | $1.25 | |
| [May 6] | Received of $0.50 in Labor by on tithing | $0.50 | |
| [May 6] | Received of $1.50 in Labor by George Hales on tithing | $1.50 | |
| [May 6] | Received of per hand John Lewis 3 bus. [bushels] of wheat at 5/— [$0.62½] pr bus. on tithing | $1.88 | |
| [May 6] | Received of Thomas Bradbury 1 Small Quilt value $1.00 also 1 Worsted shawl value $2.00, also 1 Bed Spread value $2.00 also 1 mans Shirt value $0.50 also 1 Womens Shirt value $0.50 in full for Property Tithing | $6.00 | |
| [May 6] | Received of $2.00. in Labor by on his tithing | $2.00 | |
| [May 6] | Received of $2.00. in Labor by on tithing | $2.00 | |
| [May 6] | Received Thomas Heaps $13.00 by an ac/— [account] p[e]r. on tithing | $13.00 | |
| [May 6] | Received of Charles Hulett [Hewlett] $13.00. by an ac/— per [] on tithing | $13.00 | |
| [May 6] | Received of Samuel P. Carter $3.62 by an ac/— per [] on tithing | $3.62 | |
| [May 6] | Received of Joseph Turnbull per hand William Empey Cash $2.00. also 1 Hoe value $1.00 also 1 Crock value $1.00 also 1 Table value $2.50 also 3 chairs (old) value $0.88 on tithing | $7.38 | |
| [May 6] | Received of Edward Stevenson $1.50 in Cash on tithing | $1.50 | |
| [May] 7 | Received of $1.50 as per s Order also $1.50 in Labor by Repairing s Watch on his tithing | $3.00 | |
| [May 7] | Received of Justus Morse $65.00 as per Receipt of dated July 23rd. 1844 on tithing | $65.00 | |
| [May 7] | Received of $8.00 in Labor by James D. Miller on tithing | $8.00 | |
| [May 7] | Received of 1 Log chain w[eigh]t. 20½ lbs at $0.20 pr lb on tithing | $4.10 |
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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