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Derby, Erastus H.
Biography
14 Sept. 1810–3 Dec. 1890. Tailor, carpenter, farmer, joiner. Born in Hawley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts. Son of Edward Darby and Ruth Phoebe Hitchcock. Moved to Ohio, by 1834. Married Ruhamah Burnham Knowlton, 10 Aug. 1834, in Carthage, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Moved to Hancock Co., Illinois, soon thereafter. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, early 1840, in Hancock Co. Appointed aide-de-camp in Nauvoo Legion, 13 Nov. 1841. Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., by 1842. Member of Nauvoo Masonic Lodge. Traveled to Missouri, July 1842, to ask Governor Thomas Reynolds to remit arrest warrant for JS. While in hiding with JS, served as a scribe for JS’s journal, Aug. 1842. Ordained a seventy. Moved to Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, by 1850; to Ohio, by late 1850; to Chicago, by 1855; and to Williams Co., Ohio, by 1860. Fought in Civil War. Moved to Le Sueur, Le Sueur Co., Minnesota, 1872. Died in Le Sueur.
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- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- Times and Seasons, 15 February 1842
- Appendix 5: Willard Richards, Draft Notes of Joseph Smith’s Activities, 1842, 1844, Introduction
- Attachment, 23 May 1845 [ State of Illinois v. Williams et al. ]
- Bond from Smith Tuttle and John Gillet, 7 July 1843
- Claim from Erastus Derby, 1 August 1842
- Deed to Smith Tuttle, John Gillet, and Horace Hotchkiss, 7 July 1843
- Discourse, 29 October 1842
- General Orders for Nauvoo Legion, 2 August 1842
- History Draft [1 March–31 December 1843]
- History Draft [1 January–3 March 1843]
- History Draft [1 July–31 December 1842]
- History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- Introduction to Steamboat Maid of Iowa
- Introduction to the Book of the Law of the Lord
- Journal, December 1841–December 1842
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 3, 15 July 1843–29 February 1844
- Letter from Aldrich & Chittenden, 28 July 1842
- Letter from Calvin A. Warren, 13 July 1842
- Letter from Dan Jones, 8 January 1844
- Letter from David S. Hollister, 8 January 1844
- Letter from David S. Hollister, 9 May 1844
- Letter from Eliza Lowry Nicholson, 23 April 1843
- Letter from Emma Smith, 16 August 1842
- Letter from Erastus Derby, 9 October 1843
- Letter from George Miller, 4 September 1842
- Letter from Lyman O. Littlefield, 14 March 1842
- Letter from Thomas Carlin, 27 July 1842
- Letter from Thomas Carlin, 30 June 1842
- Letter from Wilson Law, 16 August 1842
- Letter to Emma Smith, 16 August 1842
- Letter to John M. Bernhisel, 7 September 1842
- Letter to Wilson Law, 16 August 1842
- Letter to “All the Saints in Nauvoo,” 1 September 1842 [D&C 127]
- License Record Book
- Minutes and Discourse, 31 August 1842
- Minutes, 22 July 1842, as Published in Times and Seasons
- Minutes, 27 May 1843
- Minutes, 9 July 1842
- Miscellaneous Notes [20–22 June 1844]
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, January–November 1842
- Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, February 1841–October 1844
- Nauvoo Marriage Record, February 1842–January 1846
- Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book
- Proverbs, between circa 11 August and circa 4 September 1842
- Reflections and Blessings, 16 and 23 August 1842
- Revelation, 19 January 1841 [D&C 124]
- Statement of Account from Nauvoo City Watch, 27 August 1842
- Subpoena, 23 May 1845–C [ State of Illinois v. Williams et al. ]
- The Book of the Law of the Lord
- The Book of the Law of the Lord, Book A
- Gender
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