Footnotes
The document was included in a register in 1975 and was also microfilmed that year. (Case File for General Ecclesiastical Court Trials, 1832–1963, CHL.)
General Ecclesiastical Court Trials 1832–1963. CHL.
Footnotes
The signatories to this document held various offices in the church: Smith and Cahoon were appointed as counselors to Bishop Newel K. Whitney on 10 February 1832. Rigdon and the two Whitmers were ordained high priests in 1831. Gause and Rigdon were appointed as counselors to JS in the presidency of the high priesthood on 8 March 1832, suggesting that Gause had been ordained a high priest by early March. (Hyrum Smith, Diary and Account Book, 10 Feb. 1832; Minutes, ca. 3–4 June 1831; Minutes, 25–26 Oct. 1831; Note, 8 Mar. 1832.)
Smith, Hyrum. Diary and Account Book, Nov. 1831–Feb. 1835. Hyrum Smith, Papers, ca. 1832–1844. BYU.
Hartley, “Letters and Mail between Kirtland and Independence,” 176, 183–184.
Hartley, William G. “Letters and Mail between Kirtland and Independence: A Mormon Postal History, 1831–33.” Journal of Mormon History 35, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 163–189.
See Note, 8 Mar. 1832.
See Revelation, 11 Nov. 1831–B [D&C 107:78–79].
Revelation, 1 Mar. 1832 [D&C 78:9]. JS probably received Cowdery’s letter upon his arrival in Kirtland the night before the 1 March revelation was dictated.
Sidney Rigdon, Account, 25 Mar. 1832, Sidney Rigdon, Collection, CHL; JS History, vol. A-1, 209; Hyrum Smith, Diary and Account Book, 3 Apr. 1832. Both the JS and Rigdon accounts mismatch days of the week with dates, which introduces some uncertainty as to the exact days of their departures.
Rigdon, Sidney. Collection, 1831–1858. CHL. MS 713.
Smith, Hyrum. Diary and Account Book, Nov. 1831–Feb. 1835. Hyrum Smith, Papers, ca. 1832–1844. BYU.
Hyrum Smith, Diary and Account Book, 1 Mar. 1832; see also Shipps and Welch, Journals of William McLellin, 68; Minute Book 2, 11 and 25–26 Oct. 1831; 1–2 and 12 Nov. 1831; Cahoon, Diary, 9 Nov. 1831; and Luke Johnson, “History of Luke Johnson,” LDS Millennial Star, 31 Dec. 1864, 26:835. It is not clear where Gause was living, though in the fall 1831 he was located in North Union, Ohio, fifteen miles from Kirtland. For at least part of March, Gause was apparently helping JS with his Bible revisions in Hiram. (Jennings, “Consequential Counselor,” 183.)
Smith, Hyrum. Diary and Account Book, Nov. 1831–Feb. 1835. Hyrum Smith, Papers, ca. 1832–1844. BYU.
Shipps, Jan, and John W. Welch, eds. The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831–1836. Provo, UT: BYU Studies; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Cahoon, Reynolds. Diaries, 1831–1832. CHL. MS 1115.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Jennings, Erin B. “The Consequential Counselor: Restoring the Root(s) of Jesse Gause.” Journal of Mormon History 34 (Spring 2008): 182–227.
Note, 8 Mar. 1832; Hyrum Smith, Diary and Account Book, 1 Mar.–3 Apr. 1832.
Smith, Hyrum. Diary and Account Book, Nov. 1831–Feb. 1835. Hyrum Smith, Papers, ca. 1832–1844. BYU.
Jackman, “Sketch of Life,” [5]; Jackman, “A Short Sketch of the Life of Levi Jackman,” 2. Jackman stated that he traveled with “Peter Whitmer,” likely twenty-three-year-old Peter Whitmer Jr. rather than fifty-eight-year-old Peter Whitmer Sr. (“Records of Early Church Families,” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine July 1935, 26:106; Dear, Two Hundred Thirty-Eight Years of the Whitmer Family, 10.)
Jackman, Levi. “Sketch of Life,” 1851. Typescript. CHL. MS 15648.
Jackman, Levi. “A Short Sketch of the Life of Levi Jackman,” ca. 1851. Typescript. CHL. M270.1 J123ja 18--?.
“Records of Early Church Families.” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 26 (July 1935): 101–110.
Dear, Mary Cleora. Two Hundred Thirty-Eight Years of the Whitmer Family, 1737–1976. Richmond, MO: Beck Printing, 1976.
By the middle of the week following the attack, Rigdon was well enough to move his family from Hiram to Kirtland, even with the rest of his family sick with measles. After arriving in Kirtland, Rigdon could conceivably have presented the document to Cahoon and Hyrum Smith for their signatures. (JS History, vol. A-1, 209; Sidney Rigdon, Account, 25 Mar. 1832, Sidney Rigdon, Collection, CHL.)
Rigdon, Sidney. Collection, 1831–1858. CHL. MS 713.
Minute Book 2, 23 Jan. 1832. Robinson was apparently copying from a compilation of minutes made by John Whitmer. Because Whitmer’s compilation is no longer extant, it is not known whether Whitmer included the minutes from 24 and 27 January in his compilation. (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return [Davis City, IA], Sept. 1889, 133.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
Minutes from Missouri conferences after March 1832 do not designate a moderator when Edward Partridge is present, perhaps because of the complaints made in this document. (See, for example, Minute Book 2, 26 May 1832; 3 July 1832; and 2 Oct. 1832.)
The complainants may have been referring to the 1 August 1831 revelation, which stated that the bishop was to be assisted by his counselors in his mission “to divide the lands of the heritage of God unto his children & to Judge his people.” Even though Cowdery had been designated as second elder of the church in 1830, it was specifically the responsibility of the bishop and his counselors to deal with the consecration of land. (Revelation, 1 Aug. 1831 [D&C 58:17–18]; License for John Whitmer, 9 June 1830.)
The minutes do not reveal how the clerk was appointed, stating only, “Edward Partrage appointed moderator and Oliver Cowdery Clerk.” Minutes of other conferences in 1831 do not provide information about how clerks were selected, although Cowdery or John Whitmer almost always acted in that capacity when they were in attendance. The minutes of special conferences held during the first two weeks of November use the same language and sentence structure to record the appointment of their clerks that Cowdery used in the January 1832 minutes. (Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 28 Jan. 1832; Minutes, 1–2 Nov. 1831; Minutes, 8 Nov. 1831; Minutes, 9 Nov. 1831; Minutes, 12 Nov. 1831.)
The “Articles and Covenants” of the church stated that “a regular list of all the names of the members of the whole church” was to be kept in a book “by one of the elders whomsoever the other elders shall appoint from time to time.” That list was to be called “the general church record of names.” In an 8 March 1831 revelation, Whitmer was appointed to “write & keep a regulal [regular] history” of the church and to “Keep the Church Record & History continually,” a calling reiterated in an 11 November 1831 revelation. (Articles and Covenants, ca. Apr. 1830 [D&C 20:82–83]; Revelation, ca. 8 Mar. 1831–B [D&C 47:1, 3]; Revelation, 11 Nov. 1831–A [D&C 69:1–3].)
TEXT: Possibly “requires”.
The conference appointed Corrill, Cowdery, and William W. Phelps to “superintend Schools in the Churches in this land.” A 14 June 1831 revelation had already given Cowdery and Phelps the responsibility of “Printing & of Selecting & writing Books for Schools in this Church that little Children also may receive instruction before me.” Corrill was ordained an “assistant” to Partridge on 3 June 1831. It is unclear whether Corrill ever functioned as a superintendent of schools, but his daughter Nancy apparently became the teacher of a Mormon school in Jackson County, Missouri. (Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 28 Jan. 1832; Revelation, 14 June 1831 [D&C 55:4]; Minutes, ca. 3–4 June 1831; Emily D. P. Young, “Autobiography,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Dec. 1884, 13:103.)
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
The administration of the court of the high priesthood was set forth in a revelation dated 11 November 1831. (Revelation, 11 Nov. 1831–B [D&C 107:78–79].)
TEXT: Handwriting of Sidney Rigdon ends; individual signatories begin.
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