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.
Richards, Journal, 9 Aug. 1844; “Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1844, 5:693; see also Minutes, Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:30.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Andrus and Fuller, Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 24; Wilkinson et al., Brigham Young University, 4:255.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Wilkinson, Ernest L., Leonard J. Arrington, and Bruce C. Hafen, eds. Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years. Vol. 4. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1976.
Footnotes
See “Part 4: June–July 1843.” The use of “Sir” as a salutation and “Genl Joseph Smith” in the address suggest that the author was not a church member or a member of JS’s extended family in Lee County (where Dixon is located). Shepherd Patrick, one of the attorneys who defended JS in Dixon, was in Nauvoo on 29 April 1844 and shortly after that returned to the Dixon area to represent JS in his suit against Harmon T. Wilson and Joseph H. Reynolds. His handwriting, however, does not match the author’s, and neither does the handwriting of Edward Southwick, another lawyer who represented JS in Dixon. Other people who may have authored the letter include Lucien Sanger, who owned a stagecoach, and James Campbell, the sheriff of Lee County, Illinois. Given his occupation, Sanger may have been interested in buying a horse from JS. Another potential author is an “Esqr Noble,” who was in Nauvoo assisting the city’s attorney on 29 April 1844. This was probably Silas Noble from Lee County. When or if he returned to Lee County is unclear. (See Clayton, Journal, 21, 23, and 30 June 1843; JS, Journal, 30 June 1843 and 29 Apr. 1844; “Missouri vs Joseph Smith,” Times and Seasons, 1 July 1843, 4:242; Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County, 57; JS to James Campbell, Bond, Nauvoo, IL, 1 July 1843; and Replication, Lee Co., IL, 8 May 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County. Dixon, IL: Inez A. Kennedy, 1893.
See Clayton, Journal, 5–10 and 13 May 1844.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.