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.
This 23 April meeting of United Firm members was probably the setting in which a revelation of this date was dictated, though it may be that the meeting was held in response to the revelation. Ratifying the decision made two weeks earlier to “dissolve” the firm,a the revelation called for it to be divided into two separate firms, one for Kirtland and one for Missouri; gave members of the Kirtland firm individual stewardships for the assets of the firm in that vicinity (enterprises or parcels of real estate); gave them collective responsibility for financing the publication of scriptures; and counseled them to “pay all your debts,” which would in some cases require renegotiating the terms or borrowing elsewhere.b Frederick G. Williams later described another revelation dictated at about this same time, which was not written, requiring certain members of the United Firm “to ballan[ce] all accounts & give up all notes & demands that they had against each other & all be equal which was done.” Among these, JS owed the largest amount, $1,151.31.c After April 1834, neither of the two successor firms outlined in the major 23 April revelation materialized. Instead, church leaders, including several former members of the United Firm, gave general direction to the management of the enterprises and lands involved in Kirtland.d
(aJS, Journal, 10 Apr. 1834. bRevelation, 23 Apr. 1834, in Doctrine and Covenants 98:2–11, 13, 1835 ed. [D&C 104:11–13, 19–51, 58–64, 78–85]; see also Revelation, 28 April 1834. cFrederick G. Williams, Statement, no date, Frederick G. Williams, Papers, CHL; Balances Due, 23 Apr. 1834, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU. dMinute Book 1, 24 Sept. 1834; Parkin, “Joseph Smith and the United Firm.”)Williams, Frederick G. Papers, 1834–1842. CHL. MS 782.
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
Parkin, Max H. “Joseph Smith and the United Firm: The Growth and Decline of the Church’s First Master Plan of Business and Finance, Ohio and Missouri, 1832–1834.” BYU Studies 46, no. 3 (2007): 5–66.
Oliver Cowdery handwriting ends; Frederick G. Williams begins.