This sheet identifies
errors found in Journals, Volume 2: December 1841–April 1843.
Minor errors, such as in the format of source citations, are not reported. The errors
reported here occur in all printings of the volume and have been corrected in the
transcripts, annotation, and reference material presented on this site. This sheet
will be updated as additional errors are found. Please report additional errors by
emailing josephsmithpapers@churchofjesuschrist.org.
Page xix, last
paragraph, lines 2 and 3. Delete “Thomas Reynolds” and insert “Lilburn W. Boggs”.
Page 42, note 144.
Change “In November 1835,” to “In 1835,”.
Page 53, note 197.
Change “Jessee Turpin” to “Jesse Turpin”.
Page 57, note 219.
Remove note and replace it with “Probably John Snider’s hotel on the southeast corner
of Sidney and Granger streets. (Hyrum Smith et al., Petition, 8 Mar. 1844, Nauvoo
City, Records, 1841–1845; Nauvoo 1842 Tax Assessment, Nauvoo City, Records,
1841–1845.)”
Page 63, note 248,
lines 1 and 2. Change “four additional people” to “five additional people”.
Page 95, line 11.
After “Joseph B. Nobles” insert “[Noble]”.
Page 96, line 3. Move
footnote indicator 358 to line 5, immediately before “Wednesday 17”.
Page 177, note 589,
line 7. Change “10 May 1843” to “10 May 1841”.
Page 184, caption
line 4. Change “Photograph by Welden C. Andersen.” to “Photograph by Alex D.
Smith.”
Page 199, note 60,
line 3. Change “aslo” to “also”.
Page 215, line 2 of Editorial Note: Change “1842” to “1843”.
Page 218, note 170. Change “Possibly ‘forces’.” to “Possibly
‘attempt,’.”
Page 236, note 246, lines 10–11. Change final citation to “‘The
Mormons Farewell,’ 7 Jan. 1843, JS Office Papers, CHL.”
Page 267, line 4. Change “[Moses] Nickerson” to “[Uriah C.]
Nickerson”.
Page 271, note 432.
Change “possibly” to “Possibly”.
Page 271, note 433.
Delete second instance of “Possibly”.
Page 366, caption line
3. Change “Seal Van Sickle” to “Selah Van Sickle”.
Page 374, note 975,
lines 4–5. Change “Coltrin ‘admitted’ to the first charge” to “Mathews ‘admitted’ to
the first charge”.
Page 379, lines 26–27. Add a single brace immediately to the
right of “Missouri” and
“Jackson”,
spanning both lines; also,
add “ss
[scilicet]” immediately to the right of the brace, centered between the two lines.
Page 380, line 11. At the beginning of the line, add a “/” and a text footnote reading “Signature of Lilburn W. Boggs.”
Page 380, note 5. Add “Docket, endorsement, and notation in
unidentified handwriting.” to the end of the footnote.
Page 380, line 32. Change “O P. Rockwell” to
“O
P. [Orrin
Porter]
Rockwell”.
Page 381, line 29. Change “O. P. Rockwell”
to
“O. P.
[Orrin
Porter]
Rockwell”.
Pages 382–383. The transcription for Joseph Smith, Petition for New
Arrest Warrant, 31 December 1842 is superseded by the transcription published in
Documents,
Volume 11, pp.
309–310.
Page 384, line 8. Change “O P. Rockwell” to
“O P.
[Orrin
Porter]
Rockwell”.
Page 384, note 19. Change “William Trumbull handwriting ends; Thomas
Ford begins.” to “Signatures of Thomas Ford and Lyman Trumbull.”.
Page 384, note 20. Remove footnote.
Page 384, line 32. Change “servd” to
“serv[e]d”
and add a text footnote reading
“‘serv[page
torn]d’.”
Page 385. The transcription for Joseph Smith, Petition for Writ of
Habeas Corpus, 31 December 1842 is superseded by the transcription published in
Documents,
Volume 11, pp.
311–312.
Page 386, line 2. Change “Roger Taney” to “James
Owings”.
Page 386, line 25. Change “L. W.
Boggs” to
“L[ilburn] W.
Boggs”.
Page 387. The transcription for Joseph Smith, Affidavit, 2 January
1843 is superseded by the transcription published in
Documents,
Volume 11, pp.
314–315.
Page 388, line 3. Change “Shadrack” to “Shadrach”.
Page 388, line 12. Change “Hiram Smith”
to
“Hiram [Hyrum]
Smith”.
Page 389, line 14. Change “Owings Clk”
to
“[James] Owings
Clk”.
Page 389, line 19. Change “J. B.
Backenstos”
to “J[acob] B.
Backenstos”.
Page 389, line 20. Change “stephn AJudge— Duglass—” to
“stephn
AJudge— Duglass
[Stephen A.
Douglas]—”.
Page 390, line 2. Change “J. B.
Backenstos”
to “J[acob] B.
Backenstos”.
Page 390, line 19. Change “Ex
Parte”
to “Ex
parte”.
Page 390, line 19. Change “On
Habeas
Corpus”
to “on Habeas
Corpus”.
Page 390, line 20. Change “J.
Butterfield”
to “J[ustin]
Butterfield”.
Page 390, line 20. Change “B. S.
Edwards”
to “B[enjamin] S.
Edwards”.
Page 390, line 21. Change “J.
Lamborn”
to “J[osiah]
Lamborn”.
Page 391, line 25. Change “O. P. Rockwell”
to
“O. P.
[Orrin
Porter]
Rockwell”.
Pages 409–555. A number of updates and changes have been made to the
reference material. The updates correct factual errors, add additional information,
and remove biographical information that, while possibly accurate, could not be
documented in primary sources or the most reliable secondary sources. Because the
reference material supports all published volumes and all documents published on the
website, the Smith Papers staff will not keep a record of the specific changes made to
each entry published in Journals, Volume 2. Readers should refer to the
Reference section of the Joseph Smith Papers website to find the corrected and updated
information.
Page 434. Change placement of Joseph Smith’s farm to the NE corner of
section 8 (to the west of section 9) and part of the SW corner of the NW quarter of
section 9.
Page 508, Nauvoo
Ecclesiastical Officers chart. Add Samuel Bent to the list of High Council
members.
Page 513. Change
“Marshall” to “Marshal”.
Page 518. Change “James Robinson” to “James Robison”.