The account of this meeting in JS’s journal adds “perhaps he will have to travel some to save his life” here. Richards had assumed responsibility for compiling and writing JS’s history on 1 December 1842. (Willard Richards, Journal, 1 Dec. 1842.)

Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.

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The account of this meeting in JS’s journal adds “so that when it is completed it will not raise a persecution again[s]t us” here. The first installment of JS’s history was published in the 15 March 1842 issue of the Times and Seasons. By mid-April 1843, an additional twenty-five installments—one in each issue of the paper following the 15 March 1842 issue—had been published, bringing the published history up to the arrival of Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt, and other missionaries in Kirtland, Ohio, in fall 1830. (“History of Joseph Smith,” Times and Seasons, 15 Mar. 1842, 3:726–728; 15 Apr. 1843, 4:172.)

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

Wight was in Kirtland, Ohio, at the time. He left the Kirtland area on 13 May 1843 for Nauvoo, where he arrived on 16 June 1843. (“Minutes of a Conference,” Times and Seasons, 1 Aug. 1843, 4:282–286; Wight, Address by Way of an Abridged Account, 4; Lyman Wight, Mountain Valley, TX, to Wilford Woodruff, [Salt Lake City, Utah Territory], 24 Aug. 1857, 12, Historian’s Office, Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861, CHL.)

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

Wight, Lyman. An Address by Way of an Abridged Account and Journal of My Life from February 1844 up to April 1848, with an Appeal to the Latter Day Saints. [Austin, TX], [ca. 1848].

Historian’s Office. Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861. CHL. CR 100 93.

TEXT: Insertion in blue ink. William Smith’s wife, Caroline Grant Smith, began suffering from dropsy, or edema, shortly after her arrival in Illinois in 1839. In 1843 she and William moved to Philadelphia, where she underwent treatment by a doctor “celebrated for the Cure of Dropsey.” (“Funeral of Mrs. Caroline Smith,” Times and Seasons, 1 June 1845, 6:918–920; William Smith, [Philadelphia, PA], to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 28 Oct. 1843, JS Collection, CHL.)

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

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The account of this meeting in JS’s journal reads, “It is not necessary that Joshua Grant should be ordained a high Priest. he is to[o] young. he is one of Zebedee Coltrins children, & has got into Zebedee’s spirit. & Jedediah [M. Grant] also.”

The account of this meeting in JS’s journal has “heal them” instead of “break him.”

TEXT: Insertion in blue ink. When these minutes were recorded in JS’s manuscript history, this portion was changed to read, “It is not necessary that Jedediah and Joshua Grant should be ordained High Priests in order to preside they are too young; they have got into Zebedee Coltrin’s habit of clipping half their words, and I intend to break them of it.” Jedediah Grant was appointed at the church’s special conference a few weeks earlier to preside over the Philadelphia branch, while Joshua Grant was appointed to preside in Cincinnati. (JS History, vol. D-1, 1539; Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 Apr. 1843.)

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Grant held the office of Seventy. Church members had previously debated whether the office of high priest was higher than the office of Seventy. In 1837, JS stated that “the seventies are to be taken from the quorum of elders and are not to be high priests.” In 1840, he similarly said that seventies “were Elders and not High Priests.” (Discourse, 6 Apr. 1837; Minutes and Discourse, 6–8 Apr. 1840.)

The temple committee consisted of Alpheus Cutler, Reynolds Cahoon, and Elias Higbee. Clayton was the temple recorder. (Letter from Nauvoo Temple Committee, 26 Jan. 1843; Notice, 11 Oct. 1842.)

The account of this meeting in JS’s journal adds “Diagonal corner f[r]om the Brick Store” to “house.” Based on this addition, the house referred to here was apparently JS’s new home, the “Nauvoo Mansion,” on the corner of Main and Water streets in Nauvoo. The building was to serve as JS’s residence and as a hotel. He and his family moved into the home around 31 August 1843. (JS, Journal, 31 Aug. and 15 Sept. 1843.)

TEXT: Insertion in blue ink. JS may have been referring to interest payments he owed as part of an 1839 agreement to purchase land in the Nauvoo area from Horace Hotchkiss, Smith Tuttle, and John Gillet. According to the terms of the purchase, Sidney Rigdon, JS, and Hyrum Smith were supposed to make two interest payments of $1,500 annually. In late 1841, JS negotiated with Hotchkiss to transfer land in New Jersey, valued at $3,200, as an interest payment. By the end of 1842, the interest payments would have totaled $9,000. Subtracting the value of the New Jersey land shows that JS owed approximately $6,000 to Hotchkiss, Tuttle, and Gillet. In April 1842, JS filed for bankruptcy; two months later, he told Hotchkiss that all of his “creditors will have to fare alike.” However, in November 1842 he informed Hotchkiss that he was “as anxious as ever to have the contract continue good between us, and to meet the obligations specified in the contract.” The next month, Hotchkiss responded that he would come to Nauvoo in spring 1843 “and make some arrangement relative to the property at that place.” On 7 April 1843, he sent JS a letter regarding the Nauvoo property, but JS probably had not received it by the time of this 19 April meeting. (Bond from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839–A; Promissory Note to John Gillet and Smith Tuttle, 12 Aug. 1839; Promissory Note to Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839; Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 9 Nov. 1841; Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 30 Dec. 1841; Application for Bankruptcy, ca. 14–16 Apr. 1842; Letter to Horace Hotchkiss, 30 June 1842; Letter to Horace Hotchkiss, 26 Nov. 1842; Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 19 Dec. 1842; Letter from Horace Hotchkiss, 7 Apr. 1843.)

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JS History, vol. D-1, 1539. Both Zundel and Moeser were native-born Germans. (“Died,” Deseret News [Salt Lake City], 28 Apr. 1880, 205; “Moesser, John Henry Frederick,” born 21 Aug. 1805, submitted by Ida Maud Warr, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family Group Records Collection; Archives Section, 1942–1969, microfilm 1,274,701, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Illustrated History of Southern California, 884.)

Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

An Illustrated History of Southern California. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.

The account of this meeting in JS's journal reads, “Take [blank] Zundall [John Jacob Zundel] & [blank] [blank] Messer [Frederick Moeser] & tell them never to drink a drop of ale, or wine or any spirit only that which flows right out from the presence of God. & send them to Germany.”

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