Footnotes

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   Minute Book 2, 6 Jan. 1836 and 6 Apr. 1838, 67, 114; “Higbee, Elias,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:253; Reed Peck, Quincy, IL, to “Dear Friends,” 18 Sept. 1839, pp. 47–48, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA; Historical Introduction to Letter to Elias Higbee, 16 Apr. 1839; Swartzell, Mormonism Exposed, 17–18; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 95–96.

   Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.

   Peck, Reed. Letter, Quincy, IL, to “Dear Friends,” 18 Sept. 1839. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

   Swartzell, William. Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838, Together with an Appendix, Containing the Revelation concerning the Golden Bible, with Numerous Extracts from the ‘Book of Covenants,’ &c., &c. Pekin, OH: By the author, 1840.

   Baugh, Alexander L. “A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1996. Also available as A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).

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   Minutes and Discourses, 5–7 Oct. 1839; Letter to Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo High Council, 5 Dec. 1839.

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   JS, Journal, 8 June 1843.

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   Huntington, Cemetery Records, [5].

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   JS, Journal, 13 Aug. 1843.

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   Discourse, 13 Aug. 1843–B.

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   See Historical Introduction to Appendix 3: Willard Richards, Draft Notes of JS’s Activities, 1842, 1844.

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   Martha Coray recounted that “from the age of thirteen years,” she had been “much in the habit of noting down evrything, I heard and read which possessed any peculiar interest to me, in order to preserve facts.” According to one account, Coray “took in common hand every di[s]course that she heard him [JS] preach, and has carefully preserved them.” Coray’s daughter noted that “it was ever her [Coray’s] custom when going to meeting to take pencil and note paper; she thus preserved notes of sermons that would otherwise have been lost to the Church.” (Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Provo, Utah Territory, to Brigham Young, 13 June 1865, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; “Obituaries,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Feb. 1882, 10:133; Lewis, “Martha Jane Knowlton Coray,” 440.)

   Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.

   Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.

   Lewis, Martha J. C. “Martha Jane Knowlton Coray.” Improvement Era 5, no. 6 (Apr. 1902): 439–440.