Footnotes
Jacob Bond I’On et al., Charleston, SC, to “Dear Sir,” 23 Sept. 1843, in JS Office Papers, CHL. Frierson’s letter was later printed in the Nauvoo Neighbor. (John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Franklin H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [2]–[3].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [3], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
“Heywood, Joseph Leland,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:646.
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.
See, for example, Historical Introduction to Letter, 30 Oct. 1833; and Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:76–88].
Elias Higbee et al., Memorial to Congress, 10 Jan. 1842, photocopy, Material Relating to Mormon Expulsion from Missouri, CHL; compare Edward Partridge, Memorial to U.S. Congress, ca. Jan. 1839, Edward Partridge, Papers, CHL.
Material Relating to Mormon Expulsion from Missouri, 1839–1843. Photocopy. CHL. MS 2145.
Edward Partridge, Papers, 1818–1839. CHL. MS 892.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1017; Jacob Bond I’On et al., Charleston, SC, to “Dear Sir,” 23 Sept. 1843, in JS Office Papers, CHL. The Elmore letter is not extant, but it was reprinted in the Nauvoo Neighbor. (John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Franklin H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [2]–[3].)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989: The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, Inclusive. Edited by Kathryn Allamong Jacob and Bruce A. Ragsdale. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
The other men present at the meeting were Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, John Taylor, and William Clayton. (JS, Journal, 2 Nov. 1843.)
These “wrongs” experienced in Missouri roughly began with the destruction of the Saints’ printing press in Independence in 1833 and concluded with their expulsion from Missouri in 1839. JS was imprisoned in Missouri from late 1838 until April 1839. Frierson was sympathetic to the Saints, whom he viewed as victims of Missourians’ aggression. “These Mormons,” Frierson observed in October 1843, “have been, and still are, pursued with a fiendish malignity by the people of Missouri.” For more on the Saints’ experience in Missouri, see “A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri,” serialized in the Times and Seasons. (John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Franklin H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [2], italics in original; “A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri,” Dec. 1839–Oct. 1840; see also “Joseph Smith Documents from February 1838 through August 1839”.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Missouri officials tried to extradite JS from Illinois every year from 1841 to 1843. (See Editorial, Times and Seasons, Sept. 1840, 1:169–170; “Joseph Smith Documents from February through November 1841”; Appendix 1: Missouri Extradition Attempt, 1842–1843, Selected Documents; Editorial Note; JS, Journal, 16, 18, 23, 25, 29, and 30 June 1843; 1 July 1843; and “Part 4: June–July 1843”.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
In a 12 October 1843 letter to Franklin H. Elmore, Frierson also stated that he had not yet met JS. (John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Franklin H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [3].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Emma Smith’s sister Elizabeth Hale Wasson lived in Amboy Township, Lee County. It is possible that Rock River, which flows through Lee County, was a geographical reference that included Amboy Township. History of Lee County, for instance, indicates that JS visited “Rock river” in June 1843 during the same trip that the Smiths visited Emma’s “relations” in Lee County. (Chase, “Township of Amboy,” 57–58; History of Lee County, 18–19, 308–309; see also “Missouri vs Joseph Smith,” Times and Seasons, 1 July 1843, 4:242.)
Chase, D. G. “Township of Amboy.” In Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County, [edited by Seraphina Gardner Smith], 9–157. Dixon, IL: Inez A. Kennedy, 1893.
The History of Lee County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c., a Biographical Directory of Citizens. . . . Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1879.
Rhett served as a representative from South Carolina from 1837 to 1849. Frierson believed that Rhett would be an ideal spokesman because he would neither be influenced by Missouri nor require the Latter-day Saint vote. “He lives in a remote section of the country,” Frierson stated, “where no excitement against the Mormons prevails and consequently him self and his constitnents could examine all the testimony on both sides, with calmness.” Frierson also deemed Rhett qualified because he represented South Carolina, which according to Frierson was the only state that had not been “disgraced” by mob violence. Regarding the Saints’ difficulties in Missouri, Rhett opined that “Missouri had held the hot end of the branding iron in that affair.” (John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Franklin H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [3], italics in original; Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1802.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989: The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, Inclusive. Edited by Kathryn Allamong Jacob and Bruce A. Ragsdale. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.