The published version of the city council minutes expands the text to read “Peter Haws, recalled a circumstance, which he had forgot to mention concerning a Mr. Smith who came from England.” (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1].)

This probably refers to Thomas Smith, who emigrated from Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, to Nauvoo in 1841. He died in July of that year. He was preceded in death by his twenty-four-year-old daughter, Diana, and his wife, Elizabeth (Betty) Parker Smith. (“Died,” Times and Seasons, 15 July 1841, 2:481; Clitheroe Circuit [Wesleyan Methodist], Whalley, Lancashire, England, Baptismal Register, 1796–1837, Register of Births and Baptisms in Clitheroe Circuit, 1832, p. 6, entry no. 71, microfilm 560,879, items 15–16, British Isles Record Collection, FHL.)

Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

British Isles Record Collection. FHL.

This probably refers to Jane Smith. (Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, 1820–1945, roll 21 [1 July 1840−20 Oct. 1841], Manifest 199, microfilm 200,149, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

This probably refers to Ruth Smith, who turned nine years old in 1841, the year her family immigrated to Nauvoo. (Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, 1820–1945, roll 21 [1 July 1840−20 Oct. 1841], Manifest 199, microfilm 200,149, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Clitheroe Circuit [Wesleyan Methodist], Whalley, Lancashire, England, Baptismal Register, 1796–1837, Register of Births and Baptisms in Clitheroe Circuit, 1832, p. 6, entry no. 71, microfilm 560,879, items 15–16, British Isles Record Collection, FHL.)

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

British Isles Record Collection. FHL.

The published version of the city council minutes expands this sentence: “Wilson Law, then Major General of the Nauvoo Legion, was familiar with the eldest daughter.” Law was elected major general in August 1842, though he was presumably cashiered on or about 9 May 1844 for “unbecoming conduct.” (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1]; Stout, “History of the Nauvoo Legion,” 3 Aug. 1842 and 17 June 1844; Court-Martial Proceedings, Nauvoo, IL, 9 May 1844, Nauvoo Legion Records, CHL.)

Charlotte Harrington Haws. The published version of the city council minutes renders this passage as follows: “Wilson was soon there again and went out in the evening with the girl, who when charged by the witness’s wife confessed.” (Nauvoo Fourth Ward Census, [6], Nauvoo Stake, Ward Census, CHL; “For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1].)

Nauvoo Stake. Ward Census, 1842. CHL.

The Nauvoo Expositor complained of the seduction of orphans in Nauvoo in relation to plural marriage. Haws’s testimony about Wilson Law’s alleged seduction of Jane Smith may have been an attempt to show the hypocrisy of one of the paper’s proprietors. (“Preamble,” Nauvoo Expositor, 7 June 1844, [2].)

The published version of the city council minutes renders “girls” as “the girl.” (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1].)

The published version of the city council minutes expands this phrase to read “but she did not keep her promise.” (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1].)

The published version of the city council minutes expands this passage to read “Wilson came again and she went out with him— witness required her to leave his house.” (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1].)

JS’s wife Emma Smith was elected the president of the newly formed Female Relief Society of Nauvoo in 1842. One of the society’s responsibilities was “correcting the morals and strengthening the virtues of the female community.” In a Relief Society meeting held in early 1842, Emma Smith observed “that the disagreeable busines of searching out those that were iniquitous, seem’d to fall on her.” (Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 17 Mar. 1842, 7–8; 14 Apr. 1842, 26, in Derr et al., First Fifty Years of Relief Society, 31–32, 47.)

Derr, Jill Mulvay, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds. The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.

The published version of the city council minutes expands this phrase to read “proceeded to shew the falsehood of Austin Cowles in the ‘Expositor.’” (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1].)

Hyrum Smith made a similar statement during the 8 June city council meeting. (Minutes, 8 June 1844.)

JS had privately taught the doctrines of eternal and plural marriage to certain individuals. He publicly taught the doctrine of eternal marriage for the first time in July 1843. (Revelation, 27 July 1842; Blessing to Sarah Ann Whitney, 23 Mar. 1843; Blessing to Joseph Kingsbury, 23 Mar. 1843; Instruction, 16 May 1843; Revelation, 12 July 1843 [D&C 132]; Discourse, 16 July 1843.)

This may refer to the group of church leaders and other members in Nauvoo, who received rituals, or ordinances, that were later performed in the Nauvoo temple. Some participants consistently referred to this group as “the quorum.” (JS, Journal, 28 Sept. 1843; 8 Oct. 1843; 1 Nov. 1843; 2 Dec. 1843; Woodruff, Journal, 3, 9–10, 16–17, and 23 Dec. 1843; Clayton, Journal, 3, 11, and 25 Feb. 1844; 28 Apr. 1844.)

Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.

Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.

The published version of the city council minutes expands this clause to read “which statement many present confirmed.” (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1].)

Matthew 22:23–30; Mark 12:18–25; Luke 20:27–36. JS referenced this passage of scripture when he taught the doctrine of eternal marriage in a July 1843 discourse. (Discourse, 16 July 1843.)

The published version of the city council minutes expands this sentence to read “otherwise they must remain as angels, or be single in heaven, which was the amount of the revelation referred to.” The July 1843 revelation referred to in this passage stated that “if a man marry him a wife, in the world, and he marry her not by me, nor by my word; and he covenant with her, So long as he is in the world, and She with him, their covenant and marriage is not of force when they are dead, and when they are out of the world therefore they are not bound by any law when they are out of the world therefore, when they are out of the world, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering Servents to minister for those, who are worthy of a far more and an exceding and an eternal weight of Glory, for these angels did not abide my law, therefore they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and Singly without exaltation in their Saved Condition to all eternity and from henceforth are not Gods, but are angels of God for ever and ever.” (“For the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, 17 June 1844, [1]; Revelation, 12 July 1843 [D&C 132:7–21].)