Footnotes
“Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846,” [1]; Historian’s Office, [7] “Historian’s Office Catalogue,” Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Frederick G. Williams, Statement, no date, Frederick G. Williams, Papers, CHL.
Williams, Frederick G. Papers, 1834–1842. CHL. MS 782.
Entries for 28 and 30 Nov. 1832; 4 Dec. 1832.
Revelation, 2 Jan. 1831, in Book of Commandments 40:28 [D&C 38:32]; Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 and 3 Jan. 1833, in Doctrine and Covenants 7:19–23, 36–46, 1835 ed. [D&C 88:70–84, 117–141].
Revelation, 2 Aug. 1833–B, in Doctrine and Covenants 83:1, 1835 ed. [D&C 94:1].
John Whitmer, Independence, MO, to JS and Oliver Cowdery, [Kirtland, OH], 29 July 1833, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 52–55; Oliver Cowdery with JS postscript, Kirtland Mills, OH, to [William W. Phelps] et al., [Independence, MO], 10 Aug. 1833, CHL; Knight, Autobiography, 39.
Knight, Newel. Autobiography and Journal, ca. 1846. CHL. MS 767.
Revelation, 24 Feb. 1834, in Doctrine and Covenants 101, 1844 ed. [D&C 103].
Revelation, 22 June 1834, in Doctrine and Covenants 102:3, 8, 1844 ed. [D&C 105:9–13, 27–28].
Kimball, “History,” 21–24; Launius, Zion’s Camp, 110–155.
Kimball, Heber C. “History of Heber Chase Kimball by His Own Dictation,” ca. 1842–1856. Heber C. Kimball, Papers, 1837–1866. CHL. MS 627, box 2.
Launius, Roger D. Zion’s Camp: Expedition to Missouri, 1834. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1984.
Oliver Cowdery noted that these blessings were “given by vision and the spirit of prophecy” when he copied more complete transcripts of the blessings into the first book of patriarchal blessings. However, the copied transcripts do not mention the weaknesses of Cowdery. Compare the assessment of Cowdery with similar assessments of JS’s counselors Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams in the blessings they received a month earlier. (Patriarchal Blessings, 1:8–13; JS, Journal, 14–19 Nov. 1833; Blessing to Oliver Cowdery, 2 Oct. 1835; Blessing to Frederick G. Williams, 2 Oct. 1835; Blessing to Sidney Rigdon, 2 Oct. 1835.)
Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.
Copies of a letter, a revelation, and possibly an earlier letter, all written by JS in response to news from Missouri, were dispatched to Missouri by way of Pratt and Patten. The documents expressed empathy with the exiled church members and counseled them to remain in Missouri, retain title to their lands if at all financially possible, collect accounts of the atrocities committed against them, and seek “evry lawful means to obtain redress of your enemies.” (JS, Kirtland, OH, to Edward Partridge, [Liberty], MO, 5 Dec. 1833, in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 65–70; JS, Kirtland Mills, OH, to Edward Partridge et al., Liberty, MO, 10 Dec. 1833, in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 70–75; Revelation, 16 and 17 Dec. 1833, in Doctrine and Covenants 97, 1835 ed. [D&C 101].)