Footnotes
JS, Journal, 25 Nov. 1833; “The Outrage in Jackson County, Missouri,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Dec. 1833, 118–120.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57:11]; Revelation, 12 Nov. 1831 [D&C 70:3–8]; Revelation, 4 Dec. 1831–B [D&C 72:20–21]; Minutes, 12 Nov. 1831; Parkin, “Joseph Smith and the United Firm,” 37–38.
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.
Letter to Edward Partridge et al., 30 Mar. 1834. The new press, which began operating in Kirtland in December 1833, replaced the one damaged in Missouri.
B. F. Norris, Mentor, OH, to Mark Norris, Ypsilanti, Michigan Territory, 6 Jan. 1834, Mark Norris Papers, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, MI, as cited in David W. Grua, “Joseph Smith and the 1834 D. P. Hurlbut Case,” 38.
Grua, David W. “Joseph Smith and the 1834 D. P. Hurlbut Case.” BYU Studies 44, no. 1 (2005): 33–54.
Oliver Cowdery, Kirtland, OH, to William W. Phelps and John Whitmer, Clay Co., MO, 21 Jan. 1834, in Cowdery, Letterbook, 22.
Cowdery, Oliver. Letterbook, 1833–1838. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Winchester, Plain Facts, 8–10.
Winchester, Benjamin. Plain Facts, Shewing the Origin of the Spaulding Story, concerning the Manuscript Found, and Its Being Transformed into the Book of Mormon; with a Short History of Dr. P. Hulbert, the Author of the Said Story . . . Re-published by George J. Adams, Minister of the Gospel, Bedford, England. To Which Is Added, a Letter from Elder S. Rigdon, Also, One from Elder O. Hyde, on the Above Subject. Bedford, England: C. B. Merry, 1841.
Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson Co., MO, 18 Aug. 1833. Hurlbut had delivered at least one advertised lecture in Kirtland about the alleged connection between Spalding’s work and the Book of Mormon; he also announced his intention to publish a book “which . . . would divulge the whole secret” of the supposedly fraudulent origins of the Book of Mormon. Some of those present at the lecture contributed funds to Hurlbut’s project, and an anti-Mormon committee in the area employed Hurlbut “to ascertain the real origin of the Book of Mormon, and to examine the validity of Joseph Smith’s claims to the character of a Prophet.” Hurlbut traveled through Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts in search for Spalding’s manuscript. He collected several affidavits from people in New York testifying against the character of JS and his family, and he claimed to have found Spalding’s manuscript, though he never published it. (Winchester, Plain Facts, 9–11; “To the Public,” Painesville [OH] Telegraph, 31 Jan. 1834, [3].)
Winchester, Benjamin. Plain Facts, Shewing the Origin of the Spaulding Story, concerning the Manuscript Found, and Its Being Transformed into the Book of Mormon; with a Short History of Dr. P. Hulbert, the Author of the Said Story . . . Re-published by George J. Adams, Minister of the Gospel, Bedford, England. To Which Is Added, a Letter from Elder S. Rigdon, Also, One from Elder O. Hyde, on the Above Subject. Bedford, England: C. B. Merry, 1841.
Painesville Telegraph. Painesville, OH. 1822–1986.
Winchester, Plain Facts, 11; Geauga Co., OH, Court of Common Pleas, Court Records, 1807–1904, Final Record Book P, pp. 431–432, microfilm 20,278, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
Winchester, Benjamin. Plain Facts, Shewing the Origin of the Spaulding Story, concerning the Manuscript Found, and Its Being Transformed into the Book of Mormon; with a Short History of Dr. P. Hulbert, the Author of the Said Story . . . Re-published by George J. Adams, Minister of the Gospel, Bedford, England. To Which Is Added, a Letter from Elder S. Rigdon, Also, One from Elder O. Hyde, on the Above Subject. Bedford, England: C. B. Merry, 1841.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
“Precept” here refers to a “command in writing by a Justice of Peace, or other Officer, for bringing a person or records before him.” On 21 December 1833, JS filed a complaint with Kirtland justice of the peace John Dowen, whose decision in a preliminary hearing stated that JS “had reason to fear that Doctor P. Hurlbut would Beat wound or kill him.” Dowen, who then issued a warrant for Hurlbut’s arrest, later claimed that when Hurlbut said he would “kill” JS, “he meant he would kill Mormonism.” (“Precept,” in Tomlins, Law-Dictionary, 5:271; Geauga Co., OH, Court of Common Pleas, Court Records, 1807–1904, Final Record Book P, pp. 431–432, microfilm 20,278, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; John C. Dowen, Statement, 2 Jan. 1885, Collection of Manuscripts about Mormons, 1832–1954, Chicago History Museum.)
Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne. The Law-Dictionary: Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the British Law; Defining and Interpreting the Terms or Words of Art; and Comprising Also Copious Information on the Subjects of Trade and Government. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: Payne and Foss, 1820.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Manuscripts about Mormons at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, ca. 1832–1954. Microfilm. Chicago Historical Society.
Following a change of venue to Chardon, Ohio, a second preliminary hearing for Hurlbut was held from 13–15 January 1834, at which time Justice of the Peace William Holbrook found that JS had just cause to issue the complaint and ordered Hurlbut to keep the peace and to appear before the court of common pleas at the start of its next term, 31 March 1834. On 9 April 1834, the court of common pleas found that JS “had ground to fear” an attack from Hurlbut and ordered Hurlbut to post a $200 bond to keep the peace and pay the court costs of $112.59. (Geauga Co., OH, Court of Common Pleas, Court Records, 1807–1904, Final Record Book M, p. 193, microfilm 20,277; Final Record Book P, pp. 431–432, microfilm 20,278, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.