Footnotes
JS, Journal, 4 Mar. 1844; Woodruff, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
JS, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844; see also Discourse, 7 Mar. 1844–B.
John Scott, Testimony, Nauvoo, IL, 26 Feb. 1844, City of Nauvoo v. Bostwick (Nauvoo Mayor’s Ct. 1844), Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL. The previous month, the Nauvoo mayor’s court fined Bostwick for slander. Following the trial, Bostwick’s attorney, Francis M. Higbee, said he would appeal the decision to the municipal court and, if necessary, to the circuit court—a move JS interpreted as an attempt to stir up a mob against Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo. Although the case was later brought before the circuit court, it was dismissed in May at Bostwick’s request, for unspecified reasons. (JS, Journal, 26 Feb. 1844; Notice, 9 Apr. 1844.)
“The Mormons and Their Prophet—Legislation at Nauvoo—The Temple,” New-York Daily Tribune (New York City), 27 Jan. 1844, [1].
New-York Daily Tribune. New York City. 1841–1924.
JS, Journal, 21 Dec. 1842; Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1842–June 1844.
In December 1843, the city council passed an ordinance “concerning the Landing of Steam Boats” within the city limits. The ordinance required captains of all steamboats loading or unloading passengers or freight to pay a wharfage of one dollar to the city’s wharfmaster. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 16 Dec. 1843, 196–197.)
JS had confronted Kimball on this issue two days earlier, after which the city council met to discuss it. Kimball and Arthur Morrison, both of whom owned property in the northwest part of the city, argued that the riverfront land belonged to them. The city council responded that it was the city’s land, on the basis that the Nauvoo shoreline had been platted as a city street (Water Street). (JS, Journal, 5 Mar. 1844; Resolution, 5 Mar. 1844.)
“64 ft” is a reference to the width assigned to Water Street, which ran along the shoreline of the river. (Hills, Map of the City of Nauvoo, 1842.)
Hills, Gustavus. Map of the City of Nauvoo. New York: J. Child, 1842. CHL.