Footnotes
The page numbers on pages 19–71, 86–90, and 122–125 are in the handwriting of Willard Richards; on pages 72–85, 91–121, 126–167, and 171–477, in the handwriting of William Clayton; and on pages 168–170, in the handwriting of Erastus Derby. There are two pages numbered 453. Pages 476–477 constitute the last leaf of lined paper. The headers generally consist of a year or a month and year. The headers inscribed on pages 26–27, 29–71, 88–95, 119, and 121–126 are in the handwriting of Richards; the headers inscribed on pages 28, 72–87, 96–118, 120, 127–167, and 172–215 are in the handwriting of Clayton; pages 168–171, which were inscribed by Derby, have no headers. A few other pages are missing headers.
For example, page 135 points the reader to page 164, which begins by noting the continuation from page 135.
This serialized history drew on the journals herein, beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
Most of these now-erased graphite inscriptions are recoverable with bright white light and magnification. Pages 209–215, which were not erased, represent the state of the journal entries generally when they were used for drafting the “History of Joseph Smith.”
Tithing and Donation Record, 1844–1846, CHL; Trustee-in-trust, Index and Accounts, 1841–1847, CHL.
Trustee-in-Trust. Index and Accounts, 1841–1847. CHL.
Historian’s Office, “Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Inventory. Historians Office. G. S. L. City April 1.1857,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Historian’s Office Inventory G. S. L. City March 19. 1858,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Historian’s Office Catalogue Book March 1858,” [11], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Emmeline B. Wells, “Salt Lake Stake Relief Society Conference,” Women’s Exponent, 1 July 1880, 9:22.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970, First Presidency, General Administration Files, CHL.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970. First Presidency, General Administration Files, 1921–1972. CHL.
Letter of transfer, Salt Lake City, UT, 8 Jan. 2010, CHL.
Letter of Transfer, Salt Lake City, UT, 8 Jan. 2010. CHL.
| Date | Manuscript Page | Page in JSP, J2 |
| December 1841 | 26, 31, 33, 36, 39, 43–44 | 10–21 |
| Dec. 1841 | 36 | 16 |
| 11–13 Dec. 1841 | 33 | 14–15 |
| 13 Dec. 1841 | 26, 33 | 10–11, 15–16 |
| 14 Dec. 1841 | 26 | 11 |
| 15–16 Dec. 1841 | 31 | 13–14 |
| 17 Dec. 1841 | 26 | 11 |
| 22 Dec. 1841 | 36 | 16–17 |
| 24–28 Dec. 1841 | 39 | 17–19 |
| 29–31 Dec. 1841 | 43–44 | 19–21 |
| January 1842 | 31, 43–44, 48, 56–60, 66–67 | 14, 21–32, 36–38 |
| 1 Jan. 1842 | 44 | 21 |
| 4 Jan. 1842 | 48 | 23–24 |
| 5 Jan. 1842 | 31, 44 | 14, 21 |
| 6 Jan. 1842 | 57 | 25–26 |
| 12–16 Jan. 1842 | 48 | 24 |
| 15 Jan. 1842 | 58 | 26–27 |
| 16 Jan. 1842 | 48, 58 | 24, 27 |
| 17 Jan. 1842 | 43, 56, 58 | 20–21, 24–25, 27 |
| 18–22 Jan. 1842 | 58 | 27–30 |
| 23 Jan. 1842 | 59, 66 | 30, 36–37 |
| 24 Jan. 1842 | 59 | 30 |
| 25 Jan. 1842 | 59, 66 | 30, 37 |
| 26–27 Jan. 1842 | 59 | 30–31 |
| 28 Jan. 1842 | 59, 67 | 31, 38 |
| 29–31 Jan. 1842 | 60 | 31–32 |
| February–July 1842 | 60–61, 88–95, 122–128 | 32–36, 38–80 |
| August 1842 | 128–135, 164–167, 179–184 | 80–99, 115–124 |
| 3–15 Aug. 1842 | 128–135 | 80–92 |
| 16 Aug. 1842 | 135, 164–165 | 93–96 |
| 17–21 Aug. 1842 | 165–167 | 96–99 |
| Copied Correspondence | 168–178 | 100–114 |
| 23–31 Aug. 1842 | 179–184 | 115–124 |
| September–December 1842 | 184–215 | 124–183 |
Footnotes
One of Richards’s entries records that he was ill “& did not take notes.” Other entries, such as those dictated by JS to William Clayton while in hiding, are clearly copies of previously inscribed notes. (JS, Journal, 17 June 1842; 16 and 23 Aug. 1842.)
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 16; Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:626.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 18; Clayton, Journal, 10 Feb. 1843.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
JS, Kirtland, OH, to William W. Phelps, [Independence, MO], 27 Nov. 1832, in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 1–2 [D&C 85:1–2, 5]; 2 Chronicles 17:9; 34:14; Nehemiah 9:3.
JS Letterbook 1 / Smith, Joseph. “Letter Book A,” 1832–1835. Joseph Smith Collection. CHL. MS 155, box 2, fd. 1.
See also the entry for 29 June 1842, in which Richards transferred “this Journal” to his assistant William Clayton.
Pages 207–209, for example, contain such inscriptions. Willard Richards’s entry for 10 March 1842 also indicates contemporaneous inscription.
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842.
Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:626.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
JS, Journal, 8 Aug. 1842; see also Appendix 1.
JS, Journal, 21 Dec. 1842.
A Masonic lodge.
The principal arresting officer was Thomas King, undersheriff of Adams County. King was probably accompanied by James Pitman, constable of Adams County, who played a prominent role in the subsequent efforts to arrest JS. The third officer was most likely Edward Ford, who had been designated to receive the prisoner by the original requisition of Missouri governor Thomas Reynolds. (JS, Petition for writ of habeas corpus, 8 Aug. 1842, copy, JS Collection, CHL; Robison, Adams County, E–K:149; L–R:134; JS, Journal, 3 Sept. 1842; Thomas Reynolds, Requisition, 22 July 1842.)
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
Robison, Stephen D., comp. Early Records Index: Adams County, Illinois. 4 vols. [Salt Lake City]: Genealogical Society of Utah, [1994].
The original warrants from Thomas Carlin for the arrests of JS and Orrin Porter Rockwell were retained by Thomas King; copies made for the Nauvoo Municipal Court date the originals to 2 August 1842. References in JS’s journal to Carlin’s “writ” or “warrant” are to his 2 August warrant for JS’s arrest. (Thomas Carlin, Writ, 2 Aug. 1842, Ex Parte JS for Accessory to Boggs Assault [C.C.D. Ill. 1843], copy, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Orrin Porter Rockwell, Petition for writ of habeas corpus, 8 Aug. 1842, copy, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; JS, Journal, 31 Dec. 1842.)
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Writ of habeas corpus for JS, 8 Aug. 1842, copy, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Writ of habeas corpus for Orrin Porter Rockwell, 8 Aug. 1842, copy, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL. The Nauvoo city charter, which was ratified by the Illinois legislature in December 1840, granted authority to the municipal court to issue writs of habeas corpus “in all cases arising under the ordinances of the city council.” Anticipating attempts by “Enemies” to subject the citizens of Nauvoo to “illegal Process,” the Nauvoo City Council passed an ordinance in July declaring that “no Citizen of this City shall be taken out of the City by any Writ without the privilege of investigation before the Municipal Court, and the benefit of a Writ of Habeas Corpus.” The city council also passed a statute on this date granting the Nauvoo Municipal Court the power to inquire into both proper procedure and merits of the case for any arrest warrant served in Nauvoo. The Nauvoo statutes were attempts to codify the broadest interpretation of the habeas corpus grant in the charter, with the goal to prevent the legal system from being used for “religious or other persecution.” (An Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo [16 Dec. 1840], Laws of the State of Illinois[1840–1841], p. 55, sec. 17; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 5 July 1842, 86–87; 8 Aug. 1842, 98–99.)
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly, at Their Session, Began and Held at Springfield, on the Seventh of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty. Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841.
Nauvoo City Council Minute Book / Nauvoo City Council. “A Record of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Nauvoo Handcock County, State of Illinois, Commencing A.D. 1841,” ca. 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3435.
Illinois law specified that each county have a “master in Chancery”—a magistrate whose responsibilities included taking depositions, administering oaths, and, in the absence of the presiding circuit court judge, authorizing writs of habeas corpus. JS apparently decided against applying for a writ of habeas corpus from the master in chancery, perhaps because this would have been tacit admission that the Nauvoo Municipal Court did not have authority to issue writs of habeas corpus. (An Act to Provide for Issuing Writs of Ne Exeat and Habeas Corpus, and for Other Purposes [11 Feb. 1835], Laws of the State of Illinois [1834–1835], p. 32; “Persecution,” Times and Seasons, 15 Aug. 1842, 3:889.)
Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835. Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The city marshal had no authority to keep JS in custody because he did not have the arrest warrant in his possession; Thomas King had taken the warrant back to Quincy, Illinois, to receive instruction from Governor Thomas Carlin. (JS, Journal, 8 Aug. and 31 Dec. 1842; “Persecution,” Times and Seasons,15 Aug. 1842, 3:886–889.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The Iowa territorial governor was John Chambers.
Church members learned three days later that no arrest warrant had been issued in Iowa Territory. However, following Missouri governor Thomas Reynolds’s requisition of 20 August 1842 to Governor John Chambers, the latter did issue a warrant. Chambers wrote in a letter dated 10 March 1843 that a warrant was issued and returned unserved and that he would take no further action unless Missouri’s governor sent another requisition. (JS, Journal, 14 Aug. 1842; State of Missouri, Office of the Secretary of State, Commissions Division, Register of Civil Proceedings, vol. A, p. 175; John Chambers, Burlington, Iowa Territory, to John Cowan, 10 Mar. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL.)
Missouri, State of. Office of the Secretary of State, Commissions Division. Register of Civil Proceedings, 1837–1971. MSA.
JS Office Papers / Joseph Smith Office Papers, ca. 1835–1845. CHL. MS 21600.
Hawkins Taylor. Taylor was replaced four days later by William Stotts. (Lee Co., IA, County Commissioner’s Reports, 1840–1856, 15 Aug. 1842, vol. 2, p. 182, microfilm 1,954,904, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; History of Lee County, Iowa, 547.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
The History of Lee County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c., a Biographical Directory of Citizens. . . . Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1879.
Boggs swore an affidavit before Jackson County justice of the peace Samuel Weston on 20 July 1842. In spite of what JS’s companions had heard, it was Missouri governor Reynolds who made the requisition demanding that Illinois governor Carlin extradite JS to Missouri for trial. (Lilburn W. Boggs, Affidavit, 20 July 1842; Thomas Reynolds, Requisition, 22 July 1842.)
The “writ” refers to the warrant for JS’s arrest. The constitutional requirement for extradition was being charged with committing a crime in one state and fleeing to another state. Boggs’s affidavit charged JS with being an “accessary before the fact” in the attempt on his life and identified JS as a “citizen or resident of the State of Illinois” but did not charge him with committing a crime in Missouri and then fleeing to Illinois. (Thomas Carlin, Writ, 2 Aug. 1842, Ex Parte JS for Accessory to Boggs Assault [C.C.D. Ill. 1843], copy, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; U.S. Constitution, art. 4, sec. 2; Lilburn W. Boggs, Affidavit, 20 July 1842.)
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.