Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
JS, Journal, 21 Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
JS, Journal, 10 Mar. 1843.
JS, Journal, 22 Sept. 1843.
JS, Journal, 1 Dec. 1842 and 20 Jan. 1843; see also “History of Joseph Smith,” Times and Seasons, 15 Mar. 1842, 3:726–728.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
See Appendix 3.
Seven of the city councilors and aldermen elected 6 February 1843 were already serving in the positions they had been elected to. The other six—Orson Hyde, Sylvester Emmons, Benjamin Warrington, Daniel Spencer, George A. Smith, and Stephen Markham—were new to their respective positions and were presumably sworn in this day. The identity of the seventh “councillor” sworn in this day is unclear. (JS, Journal, 6 Feb. 1843; “City Election,” The Wasp, 8 Feb. 1843, [2].)
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Difficulties between JS and Rigdon were first recorded in JS’s journal on 12 May 1842.
On this date the city council elected a number of city officers, including James Sloan as recorder, William Clayton as treasurer, and Henry G. Sherwood as city marshal. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 11 Feb. 1843, 159.)
Nauvoo City Council Minute Book / Nauvoo City Council. “A Record of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Nauvoo Handcock County, State of Illinois, Commencing A.D. 1841,” ca. 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3435.
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