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JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 7 June 1853; Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to George A. Smith, 30 Aug. 1856, in Historian’s Office, Letterpress Copybooks, vol. 1, p. 364.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Historian’s Office. Letterpress Copybooks, 1854–1879, 1885–1886. CHL. CR 100 38.
“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.
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Requests for this type of information were not uncommon. (See Letter from John McKee, 7 Mar. 1843; Letter from Halsey Cook, 20 Mar. 1843; Letter from Harrison S. White, 10 May 1843; and Letter from Thomas Foster, 8 Jan. 1844.)
Letter from Moses Martin, 23 May 1842; “Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 15 July 1842, 3:861; Conference Minutes, Times and Seasons, 15 Apr. 1843, 4:174–175. It is unclear how Wyckoff and Martin came to know each other. Martin left Lee County, Iowa Territory, on 9 August 1841 to serve a proselytizing mission in New London County, Connecticut, on assignment from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. For unknown reasons, he instead preached in New York State, where he may have met Wyckoff. Martin also authored a pamphlet that he published in New York City in 1842. (Letter from Moses Martin, 7 Nov. 1841; Moses Martin, A Treatise on the Fulness of the Everlasting Gospel . . . [New York: J. W. Harrison, 1842].)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Martin, Moses. A Treatise on the Fulness of the Everlasting Gospel, Setting Forth Its First Principles, Promises, and Blessings. In Which Some of the Most Prominent Features That Have Ever Characterized That System, When on the Earth, Are Made Manifest. . . . New York: J. W. Harrison, 1842.
Marcus Osborn and Eliza Osborn to Roelef Wyckoff, Deed, 8 July 1845, Henry Co., IL, Deeds, 1818–1912, vol. 4, pp. 372–373, microfilm 1,434,977, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; “Died,” Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle, 29 Sept. 1846, [2]; History of Henry County, Illinois, 220.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. New York City. 1849–1938.
The History of Henry County, Illinois, Its Tax-Payers and Voters; containing also a Biographical Directory. . . . Chicago: H. F. Kett, 1877.
Wyckoff was married to Eliza Coles Wyckoff. The 1840 census listed fourteen people in the Wyckoff household. (1840 U.S. Census, Acquackanonk Township, Passaic Co., NJ, 102.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
An 1835 notice in a New York City newspaper announced that Wyckoff had formed a temporary partnership with Robert Hutton to conduct “a general commission business.” A second notice, published in 1836, explained that the partners would be “buying and selling merchandize on commission or otherwise” and would be engaged in “the business of shipping merchants generally.” It also stated that Wyckoff had “contributed to the common stock of said partnership the sum of $15,000 in cash.” (“Notice,” Evening Post [New York City], 16 Dec. 1835, [3]; “Notice,” Evening Post, 16 Jan. 1836, [3].)
Evening Post. New York City. 1801–.
An 1843 deed identified Wyckoff as a resident of Little Falls, New Jersey, which is about fifteen miles from New York City. (Roelef Wyckoff and Eliza Coles Wyckoff to Albert Wyckoff and Jacob Wyckoff, Deed, 7 Jan. 1843, Kings Co., NY, Conveyances, 1724–, vol. 112, pp. 115–116, microfilm 1,413,244, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Martin resided in Nashville, Lee County, Iowa Territory. (Letter from Moses Martin, 7 Nov. 1841; Iowa Stake, Record, 35; Moses Martin, Will Co., IL, to Brigham Young, Nauvoo, IL, 29 Sept. 1841, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; JS, Journal, 6 Apr. 1843; “Just Look Here Once!,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 28 Feb. 1844, [4].)
Iowa Stake, Record. / Iowa Stake. “Church Record,” 1840–1841. CHL. LR 7817 21.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Although the featured document does not supply Wyckoff’s first name, other sources reveal that it is Roelef. (See “Notice,” Evening Post [New York City], 16 Dec. 1835, [3]; History of Henry County, Illinois, 220; and “Died,” Brooklyn [NY] Daily Eagle, 29 Sept. 1846, [2].)
Evening Post. New York City. 1801–.
The History of Henry County, Illinois, Its Tax-Payers and Voters; containing also a Biographical Directory. . . . Chicago: H. F. Kett, 1877.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. New York City. 1849–1938.