Footnotes
William W. Phelps, “Letter No. 6,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, Apr. 1835, 1:97.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Phelps described his arrest, though he redacted the names of those responsible, in a letter written from prison which was afterward published in a competing newspaper: “While I was in Palmyra, comparing the ‘Book of Mormon’ with the Bible, to find out the truth, and investigate the matter for public good, —— —— —— ——, members of the [Presbyterian] church and pretended anti-masons, sent their foolish clerk from Canandaigua, and took me with a warrant, and obtained a judgment against me, on a balance of their account. This was done after I had engaged a passage home, having learned that my family were sick. An execution was sworn out on the spot, and I was hurried to jail in the course of the night, where I shall stay thirty days . . . for a double purpose.” Phelps later explained that he had been imprisoned as the result of actions taken by “a couple of Presbytetian traders, for a small debt, for the purpose, as I was informed, of ‘keeping me from joining the Mormons.’” (“Retribution,” Wayne Sentinel [Palmyra, NY], 13 May 1831, [3], italics in original; William W. Phelps, “Letter No. 6,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, Apr. 1835, 1:97.)
Wayne Sentinel. Palmyra, NY. 1823–1852, 1860–1861.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
William W. Phelps, “Letter No. 6,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, Apr. 1835, 1:97; News Item, Watch-Tower (Cooperstown, NY), 22 Aug. 1831, [2].
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Watch-Tower. Cooperstown, NY. 1817–1831.
[William W. Phelps], “Extract of a Letter from the Late Editor,” Ontario Phoenix (Canandaigua, NY), 7 Sept. 1831, [2].
Ontario Phoenix. Canandaigua, NY. 1828–1832.
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John Whitmer likely created this heading when he copied the text into Revelation Book 1.
Phelps later dated his baptism to 16 June 1831, two days after the dictation of this revelation. (William W. Phelps, “Letter No. 6,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, Apr. 1835, 1:97.)
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
The date of Phelps’s ordination has been disputed because of an apparent contradiction in the sources. The text of this revelation indicates that he had been neither baptized nor ordained an elder by 14 June 1831, but an entry in Minute Book 2 under a 6 June 1831 date lists his name among those ordained elders. By Phelps’s own account, he was still in New York on 6 June. This and other evidence indicates that the entry in Minute Book 2 is a record of ordinations beginning on 6 June and occurring over at least the next ten days. (Note on Ordinations, ca. 16 June 1831; [William W. Phelps], “Extract of a Letter from the Late Editor,” Ontario Phoenix (Canandaigua, NY), 7 Sept. 1831, [2].)
Ontario Phoenix. Canandaigua, NY. 1828–1832.
See Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57:11].
In the first publication of The Evening and the Morning Star in Missouri, Phelps apparently referenced this portion of the revelation when he explained to the readers that “those appointed to select and prepare books for the use of schools, will attend to that subject, as soon as more weighty matters are finished.” No known copies of such books are extant and it is unknown if any were actually produced. (“Common School,” The Evening and the Morning Star, June 1832, [6].)
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
Coe was listed as an elder in attendance at the early June conference. (Minutes, ca. 3–4 June 1831.)
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