Historical Introduction to Letter to Thomas Ford, 1 Jan. 1844; Military Order to Wilson Law, 8 Dec. 1843; see also “Part 5: December 1843.”
JS, Journal, 18 Dec. 1843; Willard Richards, Affidavit, Nauvoo, IL, 18 Dec. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL.
Missouri officials had already attempted to extradite Joseph Smith three times. The first and third attempts were on the charge of treason in connection with the 1838 conflict between Latter-day Saints and Missourians antagonistic to the church. The second extradition attempt was based on Smith’s alleged complicity in the attempted assassination of former Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs in 1842. (See Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, ca. 30 Oct. 1839–27 Jan. 1840; Lilburn W. Boggs, Requisition, Jefferson City, MO, 1 Sept. 1840, Extradition of JS et al. for Treason and Other Crimes [Warren Co. Cir. Ct. 1841], Joseph Smith Extradition Records, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, IL; “The Late Proceedings,” Times and Seasons, 15 June 1841, 2:447–449; Petition to Nauvoo Municipal Court, 30 June 1843; and JS, Journal, 8 Aug. 1842.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
For Smith’s earlier correspondence with Ford, see Letter to Thomas Ford, 11 Dec. 1843; and Letter from Thomas Ford, 12 Dec. 1843.
Thomas Ford, Letter, Springfield, IL, 29 Jan. 1844, Collection of Manuscripts about Mormons, 1832–1954, Chicago History Museum; Editorial, 16–17 Feb. 1844.
Manuscripts about Mormons at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, ca. 1832–1954. Microfilm. Chicago Historical Society.
Editorial, 16–17 Feb. 1844, italics in original.
See, for example, “Nauvoo City Council—Gen. Joseph Smith—Special Privileges, &c,” Quincy (IL) Whig, 27 Dec. 1843, [2]; “Meeting of Citizens at Carthage,” Warsaw (IL) Message, Extra, 17 Jan. 1844, [2]–[3]; and “The Mormons and Their Prophet—Legislation at Nauvoo—The Temple,” Quincy Whig, 21 Feb. 1844, [1].
Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.
Warsaw Message. Warsaw, IL. 1843–1844.
Historical Introduction to Letter to John C. Calhoun, 4 Nov. 1843.
Letter from John C. Calhoun, 2 Dec. 1843; Letter from Lewis Cass, 9 Dec. 1843; Letter from Henry Clay, 15 Nov. 1843.
Church clerk Thomas Bullock recorded the names of over 270 electioneering missionaries appointed at a meeting on 9 April 1844. The 15 April 1844 issue of the Times and Seasons listed 339 names and assignments. Ultimately, the church sent out nearly 400 of these missionaries. (Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6–9 Apr. 1844, 34–39; “Special Conference,” Times and Seasons, 15 Apr. 1844, 5:504–506; Robertson, “Campaign and the Kingdom,” 177–180.)
Historian’s Office. General Church Minutes, 1839–1877. CHL
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Robertson, Margaret C. “The Campaign and the Kingdom: The Activities of the Electioneers in Joseph Smith’s Presidential Campaign.” BYU Studies 39 no. 3 (2000): 147–180.
Authorization for Orson Pratt, 12 Mar. 1844; Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, ca. 16 Dec. 1843–12 Feb. 1844.
Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, ca. 24–26 Mar. 1844.
Letter from Lyman Wight and Others, 15 Feb. 1844–A; Letter from Lyman Wight and Others, 15 Feb. 1844–B.
JS, Journal, 10–11 Mar. 1844; Council of Fifty, “Record,” 11 Mar. 1844.
Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 5 Jan. 1844, 36–40. In an address to forty newly sworn Nauvoo policemen in December 1843, Joseph Smith said he felt as if he were in more “danger from some little doe head of a fool” or a “Brutus” in the city than from the state of Missouri or other outside threats. Within a few days, rumors were circulating that he was referring to either Law or Marks. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 29 Dec. 1843, 30–31; 3 Jan. 1844, 32–36; 5 Jan. 1844, 36–40; JS, Journal, 3–5 Jan. 1844.)
Law, Record of Doings, 5 Jan. 1844, in Cook, William Law, 45–46; Letter from Francis M. Higbee, 8 Sept. 1843.
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.
This was a name given to the group on one occasion by William Clayton, who also became a member. (Clayton, Journal, 2 Dec. 1843; see also “Nauvoo Journals, May 1843–June 1844.”)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Law, Record of Doings, 8 Jan. 1844, in Cook, William Law, 46–47.
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.
John Scott, Deposition, Nauvoo, IL, 26 Feb. 1844, City of Nauvoo v. Bostwick (Nauvoo Mayor’s Ct. 1844), Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; see also Historical Introduction to City of Nauvoo v. Bostwick.
Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Records, 1829–1897, vol. D, pp. 64–161, microfilm 947,496, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
JS, Journal, 28 Feb. 1844; “The Voice of Innocence from Nauvoo,” 29 Feb. 1844, JS Collection, CHL.
Woodruff, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844; JS, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 9 and 16 Mar. 1844, [123]–[126], in Derr et al., First Fifty Years of Relief Society, 127–131.
“Virtue Will Triumph,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Mar. 1844, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, 13 Apr. 1844, 28–29.
Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, ca. 1839–ca. 1843. Fair copy. In Oliver Cowdery, Diary, Jan.–Mar. 1836. CHL.
JS, Journal, 7 Mar. 1844; “The Mormons and Their Prophet—Legislation at Nauvoo—The Temple,” New-York Daily Tribune (New York City), 27 Jan. 1844, [1].
New-York Daily Tribune. New York City. 1841–1924.
Merinus G. Eaton, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 27 Mar. 1844, and Abiathar Williams, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 27 Mar. 1844, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [2]; see also JS, Journal, 24 Mar. and 16 Apr. 1844.
JS, Journal, 18 Apr. 1844; see also Council of Fifty, “Record,” 6 May 1844.
“Valedictory,” and “Proposals for Resuscitating the Warsaw Signal,” Warsaw (IL) Message, Second Edition, 7 Feb. 1844, [1], [3]; Masthead, Warsaw (IL) Signal, 14 Feb. 1844, [1].
Warsaw Message. Warsaw, IL. 1843–1844.
Warsaw Signal. Warsaw, IL. 1841–1853.
See, for example, Account of Meeting and Discourse, 8 Feb. 1844; Discourse, 7 Mar. 1844–A; Discourse, 24 Mar. 1844–A; Minutes and Discourse, 4 Apr. 1844; and Discourse, 12 May 1844.
Historical Introduction to Discourse, 7 Apr. 1844.
Letter to John C. Calhoun, 2 Jan. 1844; Letter to Henry Clay, 13 May 1844; Letter from Reuben Hedlock, 10–21 Jan. 1844.