The Papers
Reference
About
Historian’s Office, Martyrdom Account
Source Note
Source Note
Historian’s Office, martyrdom account; handwriting of Jonathan Grimshaw, , and ; 76 pages plus several inserted pages; CHL.
For more information on the History Drafts, see Introduction to History Drafts, 1844–1856.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Historian’s Office, Martyrdom Account, Draft.
with the illegal detention of
<(T&S)> Next morning the prisoners voluntarily surrendered themselves to the constable , who held the writ against them on a charge of riot for destroying the press, type, and fixtures of the Nauvoo Expositor, the property of and , and others, charged to have been destroyed on the 10th inst. The was at Head Quarters in person, and had pledged his own faith, and the faith of the State of , that the Smiths, and <the> other persons <prisoners> concerned with them should be protected from pers[onal] violence, and should have a fair and impartial trial, if they would surrender themselves to be dealt with according to law. During the <the ’s> two succeeding days <stay in >, his Excellency <he> repeatedly assured expressed to the legal counselors of the Smiths, his determination to protect the prisoners and to see that they should have a fair and impartial examination.
Tuesday. June 25. At 8. A.M. President Smith had an interview with William G. Flood of , <U.S. Receiver of Public Moneys> soon after the surrender of the prisoners on the charge of riot while in conversation with him Constable arrested Joseph for Treason against the [p. 11]
Source Note
Source Note
Document Transcript
Document Information
Document Information
Footnotes
Footnotes
Jonathan Grimshaw handwriting ends; Leo Hawkins begins.
- [1]
TEXT: Pages 11–14 were removed from the martyrdom account draft and placed into this more final copy of the martyrdom account. The pages were renumbered to conform to the pagination of this copy. Jonathan Grimshaw likely canceled the previous line of text at the time the page was moved, since he had already written it on the previous page.
This and all other insertions on this page are in the handwriting of Jonathan Grimshaw. It is unknown whether these insertions were made when this page was part of the martyrdom account draft or after it was moved into this copy.
Jonathan Grimshaw wrote “is” over Leo Hawkins’s “er” in “Bettersworth”, thus changing “Bettersworth” to “Bettissworth”.
Cancellation in the handwriting of Jonathan Grimshaw.
- [2]
TEXT: Ink smudge on page, obscuring the text; text supplied from JS History, vol. F-1.
Jonathan Grimshaw wrote “is” over Leo Hawkins’s “er” in “Bettersworth”, thus changing “Bettersworth” to “Bettissworth”.