Footnotes
Cole et al., Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions, 22; Edelman, “Brief History of Tape,” 45–46.
Cole, David J., Eve Browning, and Fred E.H. Schroeder. Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Edelman, Jonathan. “A Brief History of Tape.” Ambidextrous 5 (Falling in 2006): 45–46.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection (Supplement), 1833–1844, in the CHL catalog. A preliminary inventory of the supplement was created in 1992 and its cataloging was finalized in 2017.
Footnotes
Charges against Harrison Sagers Preferred to William Marks, 21 Nov. 1843; Nauvoo Third Ward Census, [25], Nauvoo Stake, Ward Census, CHL; 1840 U.S. Census, Hancock Co., IL, 175.
Nauvoo Stake. Ward Census, 1842. CHL.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, 25 Nov. 1843, 21–22; JS, Journal, 25 Nov. 1843. On that occasion, JS condemned adultery and fornication and stated that he had never approved of such behavior. (Remarks, 25 Nov. 1843.)
JS, Journal, 8 Apr. 1844; Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6–9 Apr. 1844, 30.
Historian’s Office. General Church Minutes, 1839–1877. CHL
See Revelation, 12 July 1843. In a private conversation, JS told William Clayton that if word got out about Clayton’s participation in plural marriage, JS would give him “an awful scourging” and likely cut him off from the church but then rebaptize him and reinstate him “as good as ever.” (Clayton, Journal, 19 Oct. 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
At Sagers’s hearing before the high council, three witnesses testified that they had heard Sagers teach the “doctrine of spiritual wives” and that Sagers “believed it to be the order of God.” One of the witnesses, Sarah M. Hadlock, stated that Sagers “practiced it” and “wanted to raise children (to raise a righteous Branch).” Hadlock also testified that Sagers was interested in having “an old woman to get young women for him.” Furthermore, Hadlock stated that Sagers believed that “a person must swear false about spiritual wifes if need be after they come into the covenant.” In 1869 Nathan Tanner swore an affidavit stating that JS taught the doctrine of plural marriage to Sagers in spring 1844. (Nauvoo Stake High Council, Minutes, ca. 13 Apr. 1844, JS Collection [Supplement], CHL; Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. P, pp. 167–168, 11 May 1846, microfilm 954,602, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Nathan Tanner, Affidavit, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, 28 Aug. 1869, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1:76.)
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Smith, Joseph F. Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915. CHL. MS 3423.
Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, 13 Apr. 1844, 29.
Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, ca. 1839–ca. 1843. Fair copy. In Oliver Cowdery, Diary, Jan.–Mar. 1836. CHL.
“One Cent Reward,” Nauvoo Expositor, 7 June 1844, [3], italics in original. In the early United States, posting an announcement of this kind constituted marital separation and was a method of self-divorcing. (See Lyons, Sex among the Rabble, chap. 1.)
Nauvoo Expositor. Nauvoo, IL. 1844.
Lyons, Clare A. Sex among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730–1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
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.
Notation in the handwriting of William Marks.