Minutes, 12 July 1841, Copy
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Source Note
Nauvoo City Council, Minutes, , Hancock Co., IL, 12 July 1841. Featured version copied [ca. 12 July 1841] in Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, p. 20; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845.
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Historical Introduction
On 12 July 1841 in , Illinois, JS attended and participated in a meeting of the Nauvoo City Council. That day the council met by “special appointment” to discuss “an alledged variance between the survey of the City Plot of Nauvoo, & the map” as recorded with the . Although this was the stated reason for the meeting, the city council spent considerable time conducting other business, including items pertaining to the recent death of state senator , city liquor laws, and urban planning.Recorder inscribed the minutes of the 12 July meeting in a notebook and then used those original minutes to record the official minutes in the city council’s ledger; that is the version featured here. For whatever reason, Sloan did not copy all the text verbatim from the original minutes into the official version. The single major omission from the rough minutes is noted in a footnote to the transcript.
Footnotes
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Senator Little was one of the individuals who introduced the Nauvoo charter in the Illinois legislature and helped facilitate its passage. Little attended the Independence Day celebration in Nauvoo on 3 July, just days before his death. (See Historical Introduction to Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 Dec. 1840; Gregg, History of Hancock County, Illinois, 273; John C. Bennett [Joab, pseud.], Springfield, IL, 16 Dec. 1840, Letter to the Editors, Times and Seasons, 1 Jan. 1841, 2:266–267; Account of Meeting, 3 July 1841; and “Great Parade at Nauvoo,” Warsaw [IL] Signal, 7 July 1841.)
Gregg, Thomas. History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws. Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1880.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Warsaw Signal. Warsaw, IL. 1841–1853.
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