Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718; Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 18, 30–31.
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.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Richards, Journal, 9 Aug. 1844; “Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1844, 5:693; see also Minutes, Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:30.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Andrus and Fuller, Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 24; Wilkinson et al., Brigham Young University, 4:255.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Wilkinson, Ernest L., Leonard J. Arrington, and Bruce C. Hafen, eds. Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years. Vol. 4. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1976.
Footnotes
Black, Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 31:168–169.
Black, Susan Easton, comp. Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848. 50 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1989. Also available as “Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848,” LDS Family History Suite: LDS Vital Records Library, CD-ROM ([Provo], UT: Infobases, Inc., 1996).
Mills had the deed to the land recorded in January 1844. (Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. B, p. 55.)
According to the trustee land book, this was fractional lot 2 on block 161. Mills purchased this lot from JS through Brigham Young on either 26 August or 26 October 1841 for $125, but it was not recorded in either the deed records or the trustee land book. On 11 May 1842, JS mistakenly sold it a second time, to Elizer G. Terrall for $53. Mills’s purchase was apparently added to the land book after Mills wrote the featured letter. (Trustees Land Book A, White Purchase, block 161, lot 2.)
As JS’s frequent agent and clerk for financial business, Clayton spent much of his time regulating Nauvoo land transactions and recording them in both city and trustee-in-trust record books. (See, for example, JS, Journal, 9 and 16 July 1842; 7 Mar. 1843; and Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 11 Feb. 1843, 159; see also Trustees Land Books A and B, CHL.)
Tidwell entered a bond to purchase the northeast quarter of lot 1 in block 158 in Nauvoo in January 1840, and on 9 March 1843, JS deeded the property to him. (JS, Sidney Rigdon, and Hyrum Smith to John Tidwell, Bond, Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL, 20 Jan. 1840, CHL; Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. B, p. 1.)
An 1824 treaty between the United States and the Sauk and Meskwaki nations (designated by Euro-Americans as the Sac and Fox tribe) set aside about 119,000 acres of land between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers, just south of Fort Madison in Lee County, Iowa Territory, for the mixed-race children of white soldiers and Sauk and Meskwaki women. The land was referred to as the “Half-Breed Tract.” (Treaty with the Sock and Fox Indians [4 Aug. 1824], Public Statutes at Large, vol. 7, p. 229, art. 1.)
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.