Footnotes
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“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
See Historical Introduction to Certificate from Michael Chandler, 6 July 1835. This deed from Coe to JS is apparently not extant.
JS was responding to a letter that Coe had written from Kirtland. A docket on a copy of JS’s reply, made by Thomas Bullock, indicates that the reply was sent to Coe in Kirtland. (Letter from Joseph Coe, 1 Jan. 1844.)
See Historical Introduction to Letter to Oliver Granger, 26 Jan. 1841.
JS wrote to McBride just prior to writing this letter to Coe. (Letter to Reuben McBride, 18 Jan. 1844.)
A sheriff’s deed granted ownership rights for property sold at a sheriff’s sale. Properties available at these sales had been seized by the county based on the prior owners’ failure to pay the property taxes or to recompense a court judgment that was overdue and still unpaid. (An Act Regulating Judgments and Executions [1 Mar. 1831], Statutes of the State of Ohio [1840–1841], chap. 63, pp. 467, 475–476, secs. 1, 16.)
Statutes of the State of Ohio, of a General Nature, in Force, December 7, 1840; Also, the Statutes of a General Nature, Passed by the General Assembly at Their Thirty-Ninth Session, Commencing December 7, 1840. Columbus, OH: Samuel Medary, 1841.
See Job 41:24.