Hotchkiss Purchase, Commerce, Illinois

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One of three major land acquisitions by LDS church on Nauvoo peninsula.

Flanders, Nauvoo, 41, 41n44.

Flanders, Robert Bruce. Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965.

Tract consisted of four to five hundred acres and included part of Commerce and all of planned Commerce City (now Nauvoo area).

JSP, J2:432; Flanders, Nauvoo, 41; Brown et al., Historical Atlas, 55; Berrett, Sacred Places, 3:102.

Comprehensive Works Cited

JSP, J2 / Hedges, Andrew H., Alex D. Smith, and Richard Lloyd Anderson, eds. Journals, Volume 2: December 1841–April 1843. Vol. 2 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2011.

Flanders, Robert Bruce. Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965.

Brown, S. Kent, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard H. Jackson, eds. Historical Atlas of Mormonism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Berrett, LaMar C., ed. Sacred Places: A Comprehensive Guide to Early LDS Historical Sites. 6 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1999–2007.

Property purchased for $114,500, Aug. 1839.

Flanders, Nauvoo, 42; Leonard, Nauvoo, 58.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Flanders, Robert Bruce. Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965.

Leonard, Glen M. Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2002.

Hotchkiss Purchase, Commerce, Illinois

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