Footnotes
“Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846,” [1]; Historian’s Office, [7] “Historian’s Office Catalogue,” Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Frederick G. Williams, Statement, no date, Frederick G. Williams, Papers, CHL.
Williams, Frederick G. Papers, 1834–1842. CHL. MS 782.
Entries for 28 and 30 Nov. 1832; 4 Dec. 1832.
Revelation, 2 Jan. 1831, in Book of Commandments 40:28 [D&C 38:32]; Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 and 3 Jan. 1833, in Doctrine and Covenants 7:19–23, 36–46, 1835 ed. [D&C 88:70–84, 117–141].
Revelation, 2 Aug. 1833–B, in Doctrine and Covenants 83:1, 1835 ed. [D&C 94:1].
John Whitmer, Independence, MO, to JS and Oliver Cowdery, [Kirtland, OH], 29 July 1833, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 52–55; Oliver Cowdery with JS postscript, Kirtland Mills, OH, to [William W. Phelps] et al., [Independence, MO], 10 Aug. 1833, CHL; Knight, Autobiography, 39.
Knight, Newel. Autobiography and Journal, ca. 1846. CHL. MS 767.
Revelation, 24 Feb. 1834, in Doctrine and Covenants 101, 1844 ed. [D&C 103].
Revelation, 22 June 1834, in Doctrine and Covenants 102:3, 8, 1844 ed. [D&C 105:9–13, 27–28].
Kimball, “History,” 21–24; Launius, Zion’s Camp, 110–155.
Kimball, Heber C. “History of Heber Chase Kimball by His Own Dictation,” ca. 1842–1856. Heber C. Kimball, Papers, 1837–1866. CHL. MS 627, box 2.
Launius, Roger D. Zion’s Camp: Expedition to Missouri, 1834. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1984.
Drawing upon biblical prophecies, many early Americans anticipated a literal gathering of the descendants of the Old Testament patriarch Jacob, also named Israel. Most conceived of this gathering as a return of the Jewish people to Palestine.a JS taught that many descendants of the other Israelite tribes—now scattered throughout the earth—would be gathered to Zion, the New Jerusalem, in America. A primary mission of the early Mormon publishing effort was to facilitate a “gathering” through which all who accepted the message of the restored gospel, were baptized and confirmed into the church, and immigrated to Mormon gathering centers would receive the blessings promised to Jacob’s descendants.b
(aAdler, “American Policy toward Zion,” 251–259; Whalen, “Millenarianism and Millennialism,” 117, 124. bSee, for example, Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 496–501, 566 [3 Nephi 20:11–21:29; Ether 13:4–8]; JS, Kirtland, OH, to N. C. Saxton, Rochester, NY, 4 Jan. 1833, in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 14–18; and JS, “Church History,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 3:710 [Articles of Faith 1:10].)Adler, Selig. “Backgrounds of American Policy toward Zion.” In Israel: Its Role in Civilization, edited by Moshe Davis, 251–283. New York: The Seminary Israel Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1956.
Whalen, Robert Kieran. “Millenarianism and Millennialism in America, 1790–1880.” PhD diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1971.