Footnotes

1. [1]

   See Application for Land Patent, 22 June 1836; Register’s Office Receipt to JS, Lexington, MO, 8 Sept. 1836, Land Entry Case File no. 8667, in Record Group 49, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, National Archives, Washington DC; and Land Patents for JS, Caldwell Co., MO, nos. 7873, 8667, General Land Office Records, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior.

   General Land Office Records. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior. Digital images of the land patents cited herein are available at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.

2. [2]

   Rohrbough, Land Office Business, 65–66, 234, 262–267, 298.

   Rohrbough, Malcolm J. The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789–1837. New York: Ocford University Press, 1968.

3. [3]

   The General Land Office apparently hired couriers to carry money and financial records between the regional land offices and the general office in Washington DC, but it is not known whether couriers carried land records. Transmission through the postal system may have taken a month or longer. Contemporary correspondence between individuals in Washington DC and Missouri took three to four weeks to arrive. (See, for example, E. A. Lampkin, Carrollton, MO, to Thomas G. Bradford, Washington DC, 8 Sept. 1838, Thomas G. Bradford, Correspondence, CHL.)

   Bradford, Thomas G. Correspondence, 1822–1840. CHL.

4. [4]

   Rohrbough, Land Office Business, 77.

   Rohrbough, Malcolm J. The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789–1837. New York: Ocford University Press, 1968.

5. [5]

   See Bill of Damages, 4 June 1839.

6. [6]

   Redress petitions made by Latter-day Saints in 1839 and 1840 indicate that Saints who had purchased land patents in Caldwell County in 1836 had the patents, also called certificates or duplicates, which proved their ownership of the land. (Simeon Carter, Affidavit, Lee Co., Iowa Territory, 2 Jan. 1840, Mormon Redress Petitions, 1839–1845, CHL; Johnson, Mormon Redress Petitions, xxviii–xxix; Bill of Damages, 4 June 1839.)

   Mormon Redress Petitions, 1839–1845. CHL. MS 2703.

   Johnson, Clark V., ed. Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833–1838 Missouri Conflict. Religious Studies Center Monograph Series 16. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.

7. [7]

   The Bureau of Land Management’s records contain filed copies of all three JS patents, indicating that all were received and processed by the General Land Office. (See Land Patents for JS, Caldwell Co., MO, nos. 7873, 7874, 8667, General Land Office Records, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior.)

   General Land Office Records. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior. Digital images of the land patents cited herein are available at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.