Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, 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
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
The Key Stone Store was located on Mulholland Street, east of the temple. It was owned by William Rollosson and John Finch. Asahel Lathrop was managing the store by June 1844, and he may have been responsible for day-to-day operations at the time of this robbery. (“Robbery and Lynching,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 3 Apr. 1844, [2]; “Key Stone Store,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 4 June 1845, [4]; Ingersoll, Ingersoll’s Century Annals of San Bernardino County, 672; John Lyman Smith, Autobiography and Journal, 9.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Ingersoll, Luther A. Ingersoll’s Century Annals of San Bernardino County, 1769 to 1904. . . . Los Angeles: By the author, 1904.
Smith, John Lyman. Autobiography and Journal, 1846–1856. John L. Smith Autobiography and Journals, 1846–1864, 1894–1897. CHL. MS 1122.
Probably James A. Eastin.
According to a report in the Nauvoo Neighbor, the store of Rollosson and John Finch was robbed the night of Friday, 29 March 1844. The thieves stole “from fourteen to fifteen hundred dollars in money, and other property to the amount of two hundred dollars, or upwards.” Chism was immediately suspected and was apprehended by “a lawless banditti, under the pretence of a legal process, and hurried out some distance into the woods where he was tied, stripped, and most inhumanly beaten or lacerated, till the fear of extinguishing life itself admonished the perpetrators of this outrage to desist.” A man named Townsend (described in the journal entry as a Missourian who had boarded at JS’s house for a few days) was found guilty of assault and battery by Justice of the Peace Johnson but was fined only five dollars “for want of evidence to prove the full particulars of the case.” Chism identified Easton, Townsend, and Marr as those who had beat him. On 1 April, “J. Easton” was brought up for trial as an accessory. (“Robbery and Lynching,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 3 Apr. 1844, [2]; JS, Journal, 1 Apr. 1844.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.