Oaks and Bentley, “Joseph Smith and Legal Process,” 735–738.

Oaks, Dallin H., and Joseph I. Bentley. “Joseph Smith and Legal Process: In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo.” Brigham Young University Law Review, no. 3 (1976): 735–782.

Promissory Note to Robert E. Lee, 10 Sept. 1840.

Oaks and Bentley, “Joseph Smith and Legal Process,” 739.

Oaks, Dallin H., and Joseph I. Bentley. “Joseph Smith and Legal Process: In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo.” Brigham Young University Law Review, no. 3 (1976): 735–782.

Affidavit, 30 Nov. 1840 [Miller et al. v. B. Holladay and W. Holladay]. The incident may have occurred in early October 1840, as the Diving Bell company of St. Louis was hired to raise the stacks of the damaged steamboat from the Mississippi River on 10 October. (Amended Pleas, ca. 30 Oct. 1844 [JS et al. v. C. B. Street and M. B. Street].)

Amended Pleas, ca. 30 Oct. 1844 [JS et al. v. C. B. Street and M. B. Street].

Introduction to Miller et al. v. B. Holladay and W. Holladay.

Floyd E. Risvold Collection, 2:78–79; Pleas and Account, ca. 23 May 1844 [JS et al. v. C. B. Street and M. B. Street]. By the time of the indenture, Vinson Knight had replaced Henry W. Miller as a partner in the steamboat. The January 1841 indenture between JS, his partners, and Guthrie is in private possession, but an auction catalog captured the details of the indenture. For his share of the boat, Guthrie agreed to two payments. The first, for $811.06, was due 1 May 1841, while the second, for $415, was due 1 November 1841. (Floyd E. Risvold Collection, 2:78–79.)

The Floyd E. Risvold Collection: American Expansion and the Journey West. 3 vols. 2009. Catalog of the 27–29 January 2010 auction of the Floyd E. Risvold estate at New York City by the Spink Shreves Galleries and Spink Smythe of Dallas, TX.

Introduction to JS et al. v. C. B. Street and M. B. Street.

Letter, Solicitor of the Treasury to Montgomery Blair, 1 June 1841.

Introduction to United States v. Haws et al.; Summons, 25 Apr. 1842 [U.S. v. Haws et al.]; Charles B. Penrose to Justin Butterfield, Chicago, IL, 12 Aug. 1842, microfilm, Records of the Solicitor of the Treasury, copy at CHL.

Records of the Solicitor of the Treasury / National Archives Reference Service Report, 23 Sept. 1964. “Record Group 206, Records of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and Record Group 46, Records of the United States Senate: Records Relating to the Mormons in Illinois, 1839–1848 (Records Dated 1840–1852), Including Memorials of Mormons to Congress, 1840–1844, Some of Which Relate to Outrages Committed against the Mormons in Missouri, 1831–1839.” Microfilm. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1964. Copy in Records Related to Church Interaction with Federal Government, 1840–1852, CHL.

Introduction to United States v. Haws et al.; Transcript of Proceedings, ca. 11 June 1842 [United States v. Haws et al.]; Docket Entry, Fieri Facias, ca. 18 July 1842 [United States v. Haws et al.].

Introduction to Joseph Smith’s Bankruptcy.

JS, Journal, 9–20 Dec. 1842, p. 214.

Letter, Justin Butterfield to Charles B. Penrose, 17 Dec. 1842; Letter, Charles B. Penrose to Justin Butterfield, 11 Jan. 1843.

Oaks and Bentley, “Joseph Smith and Legal Process,” 735–771; Introduction to United States v. Joseph Smith III et al.

Oaks, Dallin H., and Joseph I. Bentley. “Joseph Smith and Legal Process: In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo.” Brigham Young University Law Review, no. 3 (1976): 735–782.