Footnotes

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   JS History, vol. A-1, 505.  

   JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.

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   Bay, Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri, 175; LeSueur, Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 366–367; William W. Phelps et al. to William T. Wood et al., 30 Oct. 1833, copy, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL; Daniel Dunklin, Jefferson City, MO, to John Thornton, 6 June 1834, in The Evening and the Morning Star, July 1834, 175–176. For examples of correspondence with Dunklin, see Sidney Gilbert et al., Liberty, MO, to Daniel Dunklin, 24 Apr. 1834; and Sidney Gilbert et al., Liberty, MO, to Daniel Dunklin, 5 June 1834, copy, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL. For more information on the expulsion of the Saints from Jackson County, see Parley P. Pratt et al., “‘The Mormons’ So Called,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Extra, Feb. 1834, [1]–[2]; Corrill, Brief History, 18–20; and “A History, of the Persecution,” Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:18–20; Jan. 1840, 1:33–36.  

   Bay, W. V. N. Reminiscences of the Bench and Bar of Missouri. . . . St. Louis: F. H. Thomas, 1878.

   LeSueur, Alexander A. Official Manual of the State of Missouri, for the Years 1897–98. Jefferson City, MO: By the author, 1897.

   Phelps, William W. Collection of Missouri Documents, 1833–1837. CHL. MS 657.

   The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.

   Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

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   Daniel Dunklin, Jefferson City, MO, to John Thornton, 6 June 1834, in The Evening and the Morning Star, July 1834, 176.  

   The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.

4. [4]

   Kimball, “Journal and Record,” 15–16; George A. Smith, Autobiography, 39; Woodruff, “History and Travels of Zion’s Camp,” 76; Berrett, Sacred Places, 4:195.  

   Kimball, Heber C. “The Journal and Record of Heber Chase Kimball an Apostle of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,” ca. 1842–1858. Heber C. Kimball, Papers, 1837–1866. CHL. MS 627, box 1.

   Smith, George A. Autobiography, ca. 1860–1882. George Albert Smith, Papers, 1834–1877. CHL. MS 1322, box 1, fd. 2.

   Woodruff, Wilford. “The History and Travels of Zion’s Camp, Led by the Prophet Joseph Smith from Kirtland Ohio to Clay County Missoura in the Spring of 1838,” 1882. CHL.

   Berrett, LaMar C., ed. Sacred Places: A Comprehensive Guide to Early LDS Historical Sites. 6 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1999–2007.

5. [5]

   Resolutions of Committee from Lafayette Co., MO, 23 June 1834.  

6. [6]

   Sidney Gilbert et al. to Daniel Dunklin, 26 June 1834, copy, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL.  

   Phelps, William W. Collection of Missouri Documents, 1833–1837. CHL. MS 657.

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   “The Mormons,” Missouri Intelligencer and Boon’s Lick Advertiser (Columbia), 28 June 1834, [3]; Samuel Owens et al. to Church Leaders in Missouri, 16 June 1834, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL. For more information on the Jackson County delegation’s proposal, see Historical Introduction to Declaration, 21 June 1834.  

   Missouri Intelligencer and Boon’s Lick Advertiser. Franklin, MO, 1819–1827; Fayette, MO, 1827–1830; Columbia, MO, 1830–1835.

   Phelps, William W. Collection of Missouri Documents, 1833–1837. CHL. MS 657.

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   William W. Phelps et al. to Samuel Owens, 21 June 1834, copy; William W. Phelps et al., Clay Co., MO, to Samuel Owens et al., 23 June 1834, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL. JS and other representatives of the Camp of Israel presented essentially this same proposal in writing to a delegation from Clay County on 21 June. For more information on these negotiations and the church leaders’ proposal, see Declaration, 21 June 1834.  

   Phelps, William W. Collection of Missouri Documents, 1833–1837. CHL. MS 657.

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   Samuel Owens, Independence, MO, to Amos Rees, Liberty, MO, 26 June 1834, William W. Phelps, Collection of Missouri Documents, CHL.  

   Phelps, William W. Collection of Missouri Documents, 1833–1837. CHL. MS 657.