Browse the Papers: Legal Records

• Documents (3939)

  Letters, revelations, reports of discourses, minutes, etc.

• Journals (32)

  Journals and diaries

• Administrative Records (1693)

  Minutes and other official records

• Revelations and Translations (60)

  Early manuscript and printed versions of scriptural works

• Histories (52)

  Early histories and draft material for the later History of the Church

• Legal Records (1812)

  Court papers

• Financial Records (389)

  Deeds, promissory notes, invoices, agreements, daybooks, ledgers, etc.

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• Other Contemporary Papers

  Selected papers of Joseph Smith's contemporaries

• Calendar of Documents

  Chronological list of all known Joseph Smith documents, including multiple versions of documents

• Comprehensive Works Cited

  List of all sources cited on the Joseph Smith Papers website

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• New York (27)
• Pennsylvania (4)
• Ohio (302)
• Missouri (231)
• Illinois (1203)
• The Estate of JS (45)

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