Footnotes
Revelation, 24 Feb. 1834 [D&C 103:30–34, 40]; Minutes, 20 Feb. 1834; Revelation, 4 June 1833 [D&C 96:2].
Geauga Co., OH, Deed Records, 1795–1921, vol. 17, pp. 38–39, 359–360, 10 Apr. 1833, microfilm 20,237, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Minutes, 26–27 Apr. 1832; Revelation, 26 Apr. 1832 [D&C 82:11–12]; Geauga Co., OH, Deed Records, 1795–1921, vol. 17, pp. 360–361, 17 June 1833, microfilm 20,237, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Minutes, 17 Mar. 1834. According to the 1830 census, Roger Orton lived in Geneseo, and Edmund Bosley lived in Livonia, both in Livingston County, New York. Freeman Nickerson lived in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County, New York, and Isaac McWithy resided in Bennington, Genesee County, New York. (1830 U.S. Census, Geneseo, Livingston Co., NY, 14; 1830 U.S. Census, Livonia, Livingston Co., NY, 65[A]; 1830 U.S. Census, Perrysburg, Cattaraugus Co., NY, 224; 1830 U.S. Census, Bennington, Genesee Co., NY, 136.)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
The letter from Hyde is not extant.
The store was so named to distinguish it from Whitney’s red store. (Staker, Hearken, O Ye People, 214n32.)
Staker, Mark L. Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2009.
JS, Journal, 7–9 Apr. 1834. The “translating room,” located in the southeast corner on the second floor of Whitney’s store in Kirtland, was where JS had worked on his translation of the Bible and was also used for administrative purposes. (Staker, Hearken, O Ye People, 251.)
Staker, Mark L. Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2009.
It is unclear what debts or other monetary obligations JS had that would have prevented him from going to Missouri. The indebtedness that concerned him was likely connected with the debts of other members of the United Firm. Since firm members apparently bonded themselves in accordance with instructions in an April 1832 revelation, they may have each held responsibility for the firm’s collective debts. (Revelation, 26 Apr. 1832 [D&C 82:15]; see also Minutes, 26–27 Apr. 1832; and Parkin, “Joseph Smith and the United Firm,” 37–39.)
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.
Minutes, 18 Mar. 1833; Note, 15 Mar. 1833; Revelation, 26 Apr. 1832 [D&C 82:11]. It is unclear why Sidney Rigdon, also a counselor in the presidency of the high priesthood and a member of the firm, did not sign.
See Matthew 25:14–29.
A July 1831 revelation instructed the Saints to purchase land in and around Jackson County. Edward Partridge, the bishop in Zion, was then to divide this land and distribute it “unto the saints” for “their inheritance” in Zion. (Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57:4–5, 7].)
See Matthew 5:13.
When this letter was copied into a later JS history, “conjure” was changed to “adjure,” meaning “to charge earnestly and solemnly” either “on pain of God’s wrath” or “on oath.” (JS History, vol. A-1, 452; “Adjure,” in American Dictionary.)
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit, I. the Origin, Affinities and Primary Signification of English Words, as far as They Have Been Ascertained. . . . Edited by Noah Webster. New York: S. Converse, 1828.
It is unclear whom Hyde contacted for donations. The minutes of the 17 March 1834 meeting in Avon, New York, state that a “bro. Perry” was to be approached for the $2,000. This “bro. Perry” may have been Asahel Perry, who lived in Middlebury, Genesee County, New York, and who may have owned additional property in Erie and Chatauqua counties. On 1 April 1834, Perry sold 119 acres in Middlebury for $2,300, but it is unclear whether he donated any of that sum to the church. Alvah Beman, at whose home the 17 March conference was held, was also a prosperous member of the church in Avon; Joseph B. Noble described Beman as “a man well off as to houses and land and goods of this world.” Whomever Hyde contacted, donations may not have been large. According to an account book for the Missouri expedition, the church received a total of $167 in donations “from the East for the benefit of Zion.” It is unclear how much was collected to help with the Kirtland debts. (Minutes, 17 Mar. 1834; Obituary for Asahel Perry, Deseret News, 3 Mar. 1869, 41; Genesee Co., NY, Deed Records, 1792–1901, vol. 32, p. 108, 1 Apr. 1834, microfilm 987,181, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Noble and Noble, Reminiscences, [11]; Account with the Church of Christ, ca. 11–29 Aug. 1834.)
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Noble, Joseph B., and Mary Adeline Beman Noble. Reminiscences, ca. 1836. CHL. MS 1031, fd. 1.
See Isaiah 59:18; 66:6.
See Psalm 50:10.
See Isaiah 28:21; Revelation, 1 June 1833 [D&C 95:4]; and Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:95].
See 2 Samuel 6:6–7. In a November 1832 letter to William W. Phelps, JS similarly expressed concern about those who sought to “steady the ark of God,” stating that whosoever did so would “fall by the shaft of death like as a tree that is smitten by the vived shaft of lightning.” (Letter to William W. Phelps, 27 Nov. 1832 [D&C 85:8].)