Footnotes
Andrus and Fuller, Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 5–6.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Footnotes
Revelation, 11 Nov. 1831–B [D&C 107:82]. The issue of which council had the authority to try a member of the First Presidency was also debated in the high council meeting held the same day Johnson and Pratt wrote their charges against JS. (Historical Introduction to Letter from Abel Lamb and Others, ca. 28 May 1837.)
Contemporary records show that the Boynton & Johnson store was operating by November 1836 and closed by September 1837. Pratt’s account book indicates that he often did business with the firm of Boynton & Johnson. (Pratt, Account Book and Autobiography, Oct. 1836–Jan. 1837, pp. 4–7, 9–10; Cowdery, Docket Book, 86, 98, 219, 224; see also Introduction to Part 5: 5 Oct. 1836–10 Apr. 1837.)
Pratt, Orson. Account Book and Autobiography, 1833, 1836–1837. CHL.
Cowdery, Oliver. Docket Book, June–Sept. 1837. Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Ames, Autobiography and Journal, [13]; Kimball, “History,” 77–78.
Ames, Ira. Autobiography and Journal, 1858. CHL. MS 6055.
Kimball, Heber C. “History of Heber Chase Kimball by His Own Dictation,” ca. 1842–1856. Heber C. Kimball, Papers, 1837–1866. CHL. MS 627, box 2.
Editorial, LDS Messenger and Advocate, June 1837, 520–521.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
On 22 May 1837, Wilford Woodruff, William F. Cahoon, and Sabra Granger each withdrew the same amount of money they had paid the society on their shares of stock. (Kirtland Safety Society, Stock Ledger, 45, 55, 219.)
Kirtland Safety Society, Discount and Loan Papers, JS Office Papers, CHL; Kirtland Safety Society, Stock Ledger, 151–152, 227–228.
Woodruff, Journal, 28 May 1837; Mary Fielding, Kirtland, OH, to Mercy Fielding, [Upper Canada], ca. June 1837, Mary Fielding Smith, Collection, CHL; Historical Introduction to Letter from Abel Lamb and Others, ca. 28 May 1837.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Smith, Mary Fielding. Collection, ca. 1832–1848. CHL. MS 2779.
Vilate Murray Kimball, for instance, wrote in a letter to Heber C. Kimball that Parrish was “the most rebelous” of the dissenters. (Vilate Murray Kimball, Kirtland Mills, OH, to Heber C. Kimball, Preston, England, 12 Sept. 1837, Heber C. Kimball, Collection, CHL.)
Kimball, Heber C. Collection, 1837–1898. CHL. MS 12476.
All three charges are in Warren Parrish’s handwriting and are on a similar type of paper. (See Ecclesiastical Records, 1839–1846, Ohio Period, 29 May 1837, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.)
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
See Historical Introduction to Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 23 May 1837.
Lyman Johnson and Orson Pratt may be referring here to comments by JS and Sidney Rigdon about Parley P. Pratt and the letters he had written. In the high council meeting held the same day this complaint was signed, Parley objected to having JS or Rigdon involved with his case “in consequence of their having previously expressed their opinion against him.” In that meeting, Rigdon confirmed that “he felt and said that Eld. Pratt has done wrong and that he still thought so.” (Minute Book 1, 29 May 1837.)
Likely signature of Lyman Johnson; signature of Orson Pratt.