Footnotes

1. [1]

   Minutes, 4–5 May 1839; Bonds from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839–A and B; Lee Co., IA, Land Records, 1836–1961, Deeds (South, Keokuk), vol. 1, pp. 507–509, microfilm 959,238; vol. 2, pp. 3–6, 13–16, microfilm 959,239, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; see also Cook, “Isaac Galland,” 270–275.

   U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

   Cook, Lyndon W. “Isaac Galland—Mormon Benefactor.” BYU Studies 19 (Spring 1979): 261–284.

2. [2]

   Hancock Co., IL, Plat Books, 1836–1938, vol. 1, pp. 37–39, Nauvoo Plat, 3 Sept. 1839, microfilm 954,774, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

   U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

3. [3]

   Bonds from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 Aug. 1839–A and B.

4. [4]

   “List of Property in the City of Nauvoo,” 1841, Nauvoo block 63; “Collectors Tax List for A. D. 1842. for the 2nd Ward in the City of Nauvoo,” 2, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.

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

5. [5]

   The purchase price of $350 was on the lower end of the $200–$800 range prescribed for lots in Nauvoo by the Nauvoo high council only a week and a half before the date of this transaction. This price suggests that the property contained no existing structures. (Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 21 Oct. 1839, 26; see also “List of Property in the City of Nauvoo,” 1841, Nauvoo block 63, lot 4; and “Alphabetical List of Property in the 2d Ward,” 1843, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.)

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

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

6. [6]

   See Promissory Note from John L. Butler, 1 Nov. 1839–A, Promissory Note from John L. Butler, 1 Nov. 1839–B, Promissory Note from John L. Butler, 1 Nov. 1839–C, Promissory Note from John L. Butler, 1 Nov. 1839–D, and Promissory Note from John L. Butler, 1 Nov. 1840, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.

7. [7]

   Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, 29 Oct. 1839, 66. For examples of other JS land transactions dated 1 November 1839, see JS and Hyrum Smith to James Henderson, Bond, Hancock Co., IL, 1 Nov. 1839; JS, Sidney Rigdon, and Hyrum Smith to Isaac Harrison, Bond, Hancock Co., IL, 1 Nov. 1839; and JS, Sidney Rigdon, and Hyrum Smith to James Huntsman, Bond, Hancock Co., IL, 1 Nov. 1839, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.

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   Illinois law required that all conveyances of real property be recorded by the recorder’s office in the county where the land in question lay within one year of the execution of the bond or other transferring document. However, as with many land transfers during the initial immigration of Saints to Hancock County in summer 1839, this sale of Nauvoo block 63, lot 4, to Butler does not appear to have been filed at the county recorder’s office. (An Act concerning Conveyances of Real Property [31 Jan. 1827], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois, pp. 152–153, sec. 15; see also, for example, relevant Hancock County deed books, Hancock County Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL.)

   The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois: Containing All the Laws . . . Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835; and at Their Second Session, Commencing December 7, 1835, and Ending January 18, 1836; and Those Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837; and at Their Special Session, Commencing July 10, and Ending July 22, 1837. . . . Compiled by Jonathan Young Scammon. Chicago: Stephen F. Gale, 1839.

   Hancock Co., IL. Deed Records, 1817–1917. Hancock County Clerk’s and Recorder’s Office, Carthage, IL.