Footnotes

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   Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1 Mar. 1841, 9–10. In August 1842, the Nauvoo high council divided the city into ten ecclesiastical wards. Although neither the petition nor the city ordinance that prompted it specified whether the wards mentioned were municipal or ecclesiastical (both existed concurrently at this time), it is clear from the locations of the signers of the petition that municipal wards were implied. (Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 20 Aug. 1842.)

   Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.

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   Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 3 and 15 Feb. 1841, 1, 8.

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   Ordinance, 12 Dec. 1843–B. JS and Emma Smith operated their home, the Nauvoo Mansion, as a hotel and boardinghouse until Ebenezer Robinson leased the hotel a week after this petition was signed. (JS, Journal, 31 Aug. 1843; Lease to Ebenezer Robinson, 23 Jan. 1844.)

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   “Meeting of Citizens at Carthage,” Warsaw (IL) Message, Extra, 17 Jan. 1844, [2]–[3]. An editorial by Thomas Gregg in the 17 January issue of the Warsaw Message singled out this ordinance as one of those recently passed by Nauvoo’s city council that “sets Smith above the license laws of the State, ‘for the health and convenience of travelers.’” Similarly, a letter to the editor of the New-York Daily Tribune dated 10 January and printed in the 27 January issue of the paper reproduced the December ordinance and editorialized that “the sole intent of this ordinance is to give to the ‘Mayor of the City’—Joseph Smith—who, it will be recollected is a tavern keeper, a monopoly of retailing liquors ‘to travelers and others,’ without license!!!” (Editorial, Warsaw [IL] Message, Extra, 17 Jan. 1844, [1]; “The Mormons and Their Prophet—Legislation at Nauvoo—The Temple,” New-York Daily Tribune [New York City], 27 Jan. 1844, [1]; see also “The Mormons and Their Prophet—Legislation at Nauvoo—The Temple,” Quincy [IL] Whig, 21 Feb. 1844, [1].)

   Warsaw Message. Warsaw, IL. 1843–1844.

   New-York Daily Tribune. New York City. 1841–1924.

   Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.

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   Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 16 Jan. 1844, 201.

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   Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 16 Jan. 1844, 201.

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   Nauvoo had over two dozen physicians. (Dinger, “Medicine and Obstetrics in Mormon Nauvoo,” 57–58.)

   Dinger, Steven C. “‘The Doctors in This Region Don’t Know Much’: Medicine and Obstetrics in Mormon Nauvoo.” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 4 (October 2016): 51–68.

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   Receipt from Samuel Musick, 14 July 1838; Book of Assessment, 1843, Third Ward, 20, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Hills, Map of the City of Nauvoo, 1842.

   Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.

   Hills, Gustavus. Map of the City of Nauvoo. New York: J. Child, 1842. CHL.

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   S. Steele et al., Petition, 18 Jan. 1844, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.

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    In November 1844, Nauvoo mayor Daniel Spencer signed an ordinance repealing all “private grants” and previous ordinances regarding liquor and once again prohibited the sale of liquor in small quantities “except in cases of sickness.” (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 9 Nov. 1844, 222–223.)