Footnotes

1. [1]

   For more information on Chandler and the Egyptian artifacts, see Introduction to Part 1: 2 Oct.–1 Dec. 1835; for information on legal judgments and the seizure of property, see Historical Introduction to Letter from Emma Smith, 3 May 1837.

2. [2]

   Thomas B. Marsh, Far West, MO, to Wilford Woodruff, Vinalhaven, ME, ca. 18 June 1838, Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, CHL; John Smith and Clarissa Lyman Smith, Kirtland, OH, to George A. Smith, Shinnston, VA, 1 Jan. 1838, George Albert Smith, Papers, CHL; Historical Introduction to Revelation, 12 Jan. 1838–A.

   Woodruff, Wilford. Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.

   Smith, George Albert. Papers, 1834–1877. CHL. MS 1322.

3. [3]

   For a list of cases brought before the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas, see Madsen, “Tabulating the Impact of Litigation on the Kirtland Economy,” 234. For cases brought before the justice court in Geauga County, see Cowdery, Docket Book, 269, 280–282, 293.

   Madsen, Gordon A. “Tabulating the Impact of Litigation on the Kirtland Economy.” In Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith’s Legal Encounters, edited by Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 227–246. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.

   Cowdery, Oliver. Docket Book, June–Sept. 1837. Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

4. [4]

   “Sheriff Sale,” Painesville (OH) Telegraph, 5 Jan. 1838, [3]; Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 14, [11].

   Painesville Telegraph. Painesville, OH. 1822–1986.

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   Vilate Murray Kimball, Kirtland, OH, to Heber C. Kimball, Preston, England, 19–24 Jan. 1838, Heber C. Kimball, Collection, CHL. On the Samuel Rounds case, see Introduction to Part 5: 5 Oct. 1836–10 Apr. 1837.

   Kimball, Heber C. Collection, 1837–1898. CHL. MS 12476.

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   Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 14 [11].

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   Hepzibah Richards, Kirtland, OH, to Willard Richards, Bedford, England, 18–19 Jan. 1838, Willard Richards, Journals and Papers, CHL.

   Richards, Willard. Journals and Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490.

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   Peter Markell and Elizabeth Koch were married in 1792 and resided in Palatine, Montgomery County, New York, before moving to Ohio sometime between October 1817 and mid-1819. The Markells had ten children. (Vosburgh, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia, 2:152; Kirtland Township Trustees’ Minutes and Poll Book, 1817–1838, p. 18, in Kirtland, Lake Co., OH, Minutes, microfilm 877,763, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Record of the Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Lake County, Ohio, 36–37.)

   Vosburgh, Royden, ed. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia, in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N. Y. 3 vols. New York: No publisher, 1916.

   U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

   Daughters of the American Revolution, New Connecticut Chapter, A Record of the Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Lake County, Ohio with a Partial List of those in Geauga County and a Membership Roll of New Connecticut Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. Painesville, OH: By the author, [1901].

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   A letter written by a Markell descendant more than 130 years later provides information that may contextualize the 1838 agreement. Writing in the early 1970s to Jay Todd, author of The Saga of the Book of Abraham, John P. Markell’s great-granddaughter Hazel B. Roese asserted that the Markell family were “very close friends of Joseph Smith.” Roese stated that someone related to Joseph Coe, who had originally helped purchase the Egyptian artifacts in 1835 and was excommunicated with other dissenters in December 1837, had obtained the Egyptian papyri but that the Markells “were foxey enough to conn this fellow out” of them. “It seems he [Coe] owed Judge [John P.] Markell some money,” indicated Roese, “and Uncle James was deptutized to help retrieve the records.” In her letter, Roese suggested that she had read this information and heard the story from her grandfather Patrick Henry Booth (husband of John P. Markell’s daughter Laura Ann Markell). (Hazel B. Roese, Ferndale, MI, to Jay Todd, Salt Lake City, UT, ca. 1970, photocopy, H. Donl Peterson Research Collection on the Book of Abraham Papyri, BYU; Joseph Coe, Kirtland, OH, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 1 Jan. 1844, JS Collection, CHL; John Smith and Clarissa Lyman Smith, Kirtland, OH, to George A. Smith, Shinnston, VA, 1 Jan. 1838, George Albert Smith, Papers, CHL.)

   Peterson, H. Donl. Research Collection on the Book of Abraham Papyri, 1964–1994. BYU.

   Smith, George Albert. Papers, 1834–1877. CHL. MS 1322.

10. [10]

    Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 14, [11].

11. [11]

    In an 1855 reminiscent account, William Huntington recorded that Joseph Smith Sr. hid in Huntington’s home during the winter of 1838; he also wrote, “In my house the mummies and Egyptian records were hid to keep from sworn destruction by apostates.” (Huntington, “History of William Huntington,” 13.)

    Huntington, William. “A History of William Huntington Written by Himself and Transcribed by His Son O. B. Huntington,” Jan. 1855. BYU.