Footnotes
See Council of Fifty, “Record,” 11 Mar. and 6 May 1844.
When the council was officially organized on 11 March 1844, Clayton recorded in his journal “the List of members.” If such a list existed outside of Clayton’s journal, it did not survive. He later used the list copied into his journal to reconstruct the minutes for that first meeting. (Clayton, Journal, 11 Mar. 1844; Council of Fifty, “Record,” 11 Mar. 1844.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Council of Fifty, “Record,” 6 and 25 May 1844.
Clayton, Journal, 23 June and 3 July 1844; “The Council of Fifty in Nauvoo, Illinois.”
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
The two exceptions are the impromptu meeting on 27 February 1845, which Clayton did not attend, and the 13 January 1846 meeting, which Clayton noted was never formally organized because of the presence of a large number of company captains who did not belong to the council. (Clayton, Journal, 27 Feb. 1845; Council of Fifty, “Record,” 27 Feb. 1845 and 13 Jan. 1846.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
See, for example, “Rules of Order of the City Council,” 22 Jan. 1842, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; and Rules of the House, H.R. Report no. 3, 28th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 1, sec. 1 (1844).
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Rules of the House. H.R. Report no. 3, 28th Cong., 1st Sess. (1844).
In the surviving copies of the original minutes, Clayton indicated where the names would later be inserted by simply noting “present.” (See, for example, Minutes, 24 Feb. and 3 Mar. 1849, Council of Fifty, Papers, 1844–1885, CHL.)
Council of Fifty. Papers, 1844–1885. CHL.
Council of Fifty, “Record,” 11 and 15 Apr. 1845.
For Dunham, he indicated death with “D,” but in the two other cases on this roll where deaths were noted, he spread the full word “Dead” across two or three columns. For other kinds of notations, see the entry for John E. Page on the first table below and the entries for Lucian R. Foster and John Taylor on the second table.
Roll, 6 Dec. 1848–4 Mar. 1849, Council of Fifty, Papers, 1845–1883, CHL.
Council of Fifty. Papers, 1845–1883. CHL.
| 1845 | Apl 22 | 29 | May 6 | May 10 | Sep ◊ [9] | 30 | Oct 4 | [Jan] 11 | 18 | Nov 12. 46 | 13— | Decr: 25 | 26 | 27 |
| <◊> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | <S> | / | / |
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | De | ad | ||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | S | / | / | / | / | / | s | s | s | |
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | s | s | s | ||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | ||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | ||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | ||||
| A | A | A | a | a | a | a | ||||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | S / | S | |
| / | / | / | / | s | A | A | a | a | a | a | ||||
| / | / | / | / | S / | S | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | ||
| / | / | — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | |||
| / | / | / | / | — | / | |||||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | |
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | ||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | s | s | / | / | / | |
| <> | </> | <a> | </> | </> | </> | </> | ||||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | ◊ | / | / | / | ||
| / | / | cut off | ||||||||||||
| — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | s | a | a |
| / | / | / | / | / | S | S | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | a | a | |
| / | / | / | / | / | a | a | / | / | / | |||||
| / | D | . | ||||||||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | . | / | / | / | / | |
| — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | |||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | |||
| / | / | / | S | S | / | S | Dead | |||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | ||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | A | a | a | |||
| 1845 | April 22 | Apl 29 | May 6 | " 10 | September ◊ [9] | 30 | Oct 4 | [Jan] 11 | 18 | Nov 12. 46 | 13 — | Decr. 25 | 26 | 27 |
| / | ||||||||||||||
| — | / | / | / | a | / | / | a | a | a | |||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | ||
| — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | Strangled | cut off | |||
| A | A | / | / | / | / | |||||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | |||||||
| / | / | / | / | A | a | / | / | / | a | a | a | |||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | S | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |
| A | A | a | a | a | ||||||||||
| / | S | S | S | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | ||||
| — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |||||
| / | / | / | S | S | / | S | / | a | a | / | / | / | ||
| — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | ||
| <> | </> | |||||||||||||
| / | / | S/ | — | — | ||||||||||
| — | / | / | / | / | A | A | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |
| — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a | a | |
| / | / | / | a | / | / | / | a | a | a | a | ||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |||
| — | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |
| <> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | </> | <a> | </> | </> | ||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | a | a | / | / | / | |
| / | / | / | / | / | a | a | a / | / | / | |||||
| gra/ | — | / | / | / | / | / | / | |||||||
| <> | </> | </> | ||||||||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | S | / | / | /— | / | / | |
| — | / | / | / | / | / | 2 | / | / | / | / | / | |||
| / | / | / | / | a | a | a | a | a | ||||||
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |
| / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |
TEXT: First row inscribed in ink, except entries for 29 April, 6 May, 9 September, 30 September, 11 January, 18 January, and 27 December, which are in graphite. First column in ink, except as noted. All other cells inscribed in graphite except as noted.
TEXT: Illegible character possibly “8”. William Clayton dated the minutes of this meeting as 8 September 1845, but the meeting was actually held 9 September 1845. (See Council of Fifty, “Record,” 9 Sept. 1845.)
TEXT: Insertion in graphite. This row may have been added 25 December 1846, the first meeting Brigham Young missed, as the chairman’s presence would have been presumed previously. Illegible character possibly “C” or “1”.
TEXT: Possibly “A”.
Morley was not listed as present in the minutes for this date. (See Council of Fifty, “Record,” 30 Sept. 1845.)
TEXT: Cancellation in graphite.
TEXT: “/” written over “—”.
TEXT: “a” written over “—”.
TEXT: Inscription in ink.
TEXT: “/” written over “—”.
TEXT: “cut off” written in ink.
TEXT: “/” written in graphite and then retraced in ink.
TEXT: Possibly “a”.
TEXT: “/” possibly canceled.
TEXT: “/” written over “—”.
TEXT: Cancellation in graphite.
TEXT: “/” written over “—”.
TEXT: “/” written over “—”.
TEXT: First row inscribed in ink, except entries for 9 September, 30 September, and 27 December, which are in graphite. First column in ink, except dashes, which are in graphite, and other inscriptions as noted. All other cells inscribed in graphite except as noted.
TEXT: Illegible character possibly “8”.
TEXT: “/” written in ink.
“Strangled,” spread over four columns, was a play on Foster’s affiliation with the church led by James J. Strang. (See “Preaching,” Voree Herald, Aug. 1846, [2].)
Voree Herald. Voree, WI. Jan. 1846–Oct. 1846.
TEXT: “cut off” written in ink.
TEXT: Cancellation in graphite.
Smith arrived late to this meeting. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 6 May 1845.)
TEXT: Possibly “s”.
TEXT: “/” written in ink.
TEXT: Possibly “/”.
The meeting minutes list Grant as present for this day, perhaps erroneously. He was not admitted to the council until 9 September 1845. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 10 May and 9 Sept. 1845.)
TEXT: “/” written in ink.
Rockwell arrived late to this meeting. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 6 May 1845.)
Rockwell arrived late to this meeting. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 30 Sept. 1845.)
TEXT: Possibly “◊◊◊” or “◊◊”. According to the minutes for this meeting, Grant was not present; his brother, George D. Grant, attended in his place and was admitted a member this day. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 9 Sept. 1845.)
TEXT: Insertion in graphite.
TEXT: Possibly “Q”.
TEXT: “/” written over canceled “—”.
TEXT: “/” written over canceled “—”.