Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [3], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Joseph L. Heywood, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to George A. Smith, [Salt Lake City, Utah Territory], 26 Jan. 1855, Historian’s Office, JS History Documents, ca. 1839–1860, CHL; “Heywood, Joseph Leland,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:646.
Historian’s Office. Joseph Smith History Documents, 1839–1860. CHL. CR 100 396.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
JS, Journal, 3 June 1843; Clayton, Journal, 3 June 1843; Joseph L. Heywood, to George A. Smith, ca. 1854, Historian’s Office, JS History Documents, ca. 1839–1860, CHL.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Historian’s Office. Joseph Smith History Documents, 1839–1860. CHL. CR 100 396.
Missouri officials made three attempts to extradite JS between 1840 and 1843. In two of these cases, JS was arrested while outside of Nauvoo. In June 1841, he was detained while returning to Nauvoo from Quincy, and in June 1843, he was taken while he and his family were visiting relatives near Dixon, Illinois. More recently, in November and December 1843, church member Daniel Avery and his son Philander were kidnapped in the area between Quincy and Nauvoo. Both were taken to Missouri and imprisoned, raising fears that a similar fate could befall JS. (See “The Late Proceedings,” Times and Seasons, 15 June 1841, 2:447; JS, Journal, 18, 23, 25, and 29–30 June 1843; “Missouri vs Joseph Smith,” Times and Seasons, 1 July 1843, 4:241–243; “Part 4: June–July 1843”; “Part 5: December 1843”; “Kidnapping,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1843, 4:375; Affidavit from Dellmore Chapman and Letter to Thomas Ford, 6 Dec. 1843; Philander Avery, Affidavit, Nauvoo, IL, 20 Dec. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL; Affidavit from Daniel Avery, 28 Dec. 1843; and Andrew Hamilton and James Hamilton, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 20 Dec. 1843, copy, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
On 4 July 1843, American Independence Day celebrations attracted throngs of visitors to Nauvoo. Between eight hundred and one thousand people disembarked from three steamboats that came from St. Louis; Burlington, Iowa Territory; and Quincy, respectively. An unnamed correspondent for the Quincy Whig was among those visiting. He reported that “a large number of ladies and gentlemen” from Quincy went to Nauvoo for “a pleasure excursion.” Upon their arrival, they were invited by JS “to attend the delivering of an oration,” and “two companies of the [Nauvoo] legion were sent to escort” them to a “grove (on the hill near the temple) where the oration was to be delivered.” The correspondent recounted that the “prophet and his people” greeted the visitors “in a cordial and happy manner.” After the oration, which the correspondent described as “an elegant, eloquent and pathetic one,” the group left for Quincy, “all evidently much pleased with Nauvoo, and gratified by their kind reception by her citizens.” (Woodruff, Journal, 4 July 1843; JS, Journal, 4 July 1843; “Trip to Nauvoo on the 4th,” Quincy [IL] Whig, 12 July 1843, [3]; see also “Trip to Nauvoo on the Fourth,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 19 July 1843, [2]–[3].)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.