Footnotes
This collection comprises correspondence addressed to JS’s clerks, correspondence to other recipients that was forwarded to JS for his perusal, copies of miscellaneous documents created by JS’s clerks, and miscellaneous financial documents. (See “Introduction to Joseph Smith Office Papers.”)
Footnotes
Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, 31; Adams Co., IL, Probate Letters of Administration, 1826–1849, bk. B, p. 254, 23 Dec. 1839, microfilm 1,853,890, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
Cook, Lyndon W. Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings, 1843–1846. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 2004.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Adams Co., IL, Probate Letters of Administration, 1826–1849, bk. B, p. 254, 23 Dec. 1839, microfilm 1,853,890, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL. Lawrence created his will on 5 November 1839 and died sometime before it was entered into the probate court on 23 December. (Adams Co., IL, Will Records, 1837–1908, vol. 1, pp. 44–46, 5 Nov. 1839, microfilm 961,242, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Lawrence was survived by his wife, Margaret Major Lawrence, and their six children. Margaret Lawrence was also pregnant with the couple’s seventh child. (Adams Co., IL, Will Records, 1837–1908, vol. 1, pp. 44–46, 5 Nov. 1839, microfilm 961,242, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
An Act concerning Minors, Orphans, and Guardians [5 Feb. 1827], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois, p. 465, sec. 1.
The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois: Containing All the Laws . . . Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835; and at Their Second Session, Commencing December 7, 1835, and Ending January 18, 1836; and Those Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837; and at Their Special Session, Commencing July 10, and Ending July 22, 1837. . . . Compiled by Jonathan Young Scammon. Chicago: Stephen F. Gale, 1839.
Adams Co., IL, Marriage Record, 1825–1890, vol. 1, p. [20], microfilm 1,870,158, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
See Receipt to Executors of Edward Lawrence Estate, 4 June 1841; Andrew Miller, Order, Quincy, IL, for JS et al., 4 June 1841, in Adams Co., IL, Circuit Court, Chancery Case Files, 1827–1854, box C7, microfilm 1,839,547, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; and Madsen, “Joseph Smith as Guardian,” 181.
Madsen, Gordon A. “Joseph Smith as Guardian: The Lawrence Estate Case.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 3 (2010): 172–211.
See Madsen, “Joseph Smith as Guardian,” 181–192; and An Act concerning Minors, Orphans, and Guardians [5 Feb. 1827], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois, p. 466, sec. 7. Two years after assuming guardianship, JS provided a detailed account of his efforts to manage the estate, which was approved by the probate court in Adams County. (See JS, Journal, 29 May 1843; and Clayton, Journal, 30 May 1843; 1 and 3 June 1843; see also Statement of Account, 3 June 1843–A and B, JS Guardian of Maria Lawrence et al. [Adams Co. Cir. Ct. 1843], Adams Co., IL, Chancery Case Files, 1827–1854, vol. C7, microfilm 1,839,547, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
Madsen, Gordon A. “Joseph Smith as Guardian: The Lawrence Estate Case.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 3 (2010): 172–211.
The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois: Containing All the Laws . . . Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835; and at Their Second Session, Commencing December 7, 1835, and Ending January 18, 1836; and Those Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837; and at Their Special Session, Commencing July 10, and Ending July 22, 1837. . . . Compiled by Jonathan Young Scammon. Chicago: Stephen F. Gale, 1839.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
See “Autobiography of Emily D. P. Young,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Aug. 1885, 14:38; and Young, “Incidents of the Life of a Mormon Girl,” 185–[187].
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
Young, Emily Dow Partridge. “Incidents of the Life of a Mormon Girl,” ca. 1884. CHL. MS 5220.
John Taylor to Wilford Woodruff, Receipt, 27 Mar. 1844, Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, CHL; see also Madsen, “Joseph Smith as Guardian,” 193–198.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Madsen, Gordon A. “Joseph Smith as Guardian: The Lawrence Estate Case.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 3 (2010): 172–211.
A few weeks before his death, JS intended to travel to Quincy, Illinois, with Taylor to legally transfer the guardianship of the Lawrence estate. This transaction was never completed. Almon Babbitt became the legal guardian in September 1844. (JS, Journal, 4 June 1844; Bond, 5 Sept. 1844, Hancock Co., IL, Probate Record, vol. C, pp. 40–41; Letters of Guardianship, 5 Sept. 1844, Hancock Co., IL, Probate Record, vol. C, p. 41, microfilm 927,935, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
The Times and Seasons printing office was located on the southeast corner of this lot, which was on the northwest corner of Water and Bain streets, in the Fourth Ward (southwestern quadrant) of the city of Nauvoo. (Masthead, Times and Seasons, 15 Feb. 1842, 3:702; “Western Nauvoo, Illinois, 15 May 1844.”)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.