Footnotes
LeSueur, “Missouri’s Failed Compromise,” 113–144.
LeSueur, Stephen C. “Missouri’s Failed Compromise: The Creation of Caldwell County for the Mormons.” Journal of Mormon History 31, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 113–144.
See William W. Phelps, Far West, MO, 7 May 1837, Letter to the Editor, Messenger and Advocate, July 1837, 3:529; and Johnson, Mormon Redress Petitions, 746–749.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Johnson, Clark V., ed. Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833–1838 Missouri Conflict. Religious Studies Center Monograph Series 16. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.
In January 1838, Oliver Cowdery told JS that Daviess County was “a great and precious country” that contained “a great many of the finest mill-Sites I have seen in the western country or world” and claimed to have identified “between forty and fifty choice locations” for future settlement. Cowdery also informed his brother that he was “delighted” with the prospect of settling in Daviess County. (Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 21 Jan. 1838; Oliver Cowdery, Far West, MO, to Warren Cowdery, 21 Jan. 1838, in Cowdery, Letterbook, 82.)
Cowdery, Oliver. Letterbook, 1833–1838. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
“Lyman Wight, Autobiography, 9, in Lyman Wight, Mountain Valley, TX, to Wilford Woodruff, [Salt Lake City, Utah Territory], 24 Aug. 1857, Historian’s Office, Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861. CHL. CR 100 93.
JS, Journal, 18 May 1838; Swartzell, Mormonism Exposed, 9–10. The composition of the survey team shifted over time as the work continued. For example, William Swartzell was hired on 27 May as an assistant surveyor and as the cook for the team.
Swartzell, William. Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838, Together with an Appendix, Containing the Revelation concerning the Golden Bible, with Numerous Extracts from the ‘Book of Covenants,’ &c., &c. Pekin, OH: By the author, 1840.
JS, Journal, 19 May 1838. JS’s journal suggests that the site was renamed before the end of the surveying trip or perhaps shortly thereafter. William Swartzell, in diary later published as a pamphlet attacking JS and the church, claimed that he was present when JS renamed the settlement on 11 June 1838. (Swartzell, Mormonism Exposed, 11–12.)
Swartzell, William. Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838, Together with an Appendix, Containing the Revelation concerning the Golden Bible, with Numerous Extracts from the ‘Book of Covenants,’ &c., &c. Pekin, OH: By the author, 1840.
See Historical Introduction to Receipt from Samuel Musick, 14 July 1838.
Swartzell, Mormonism Exposed, 9–10.
Swartzell, William. Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838, Together with an Appendix, Containing the Revelation concerning the Golden Bible, with Numerous Extracts from the ‘Book of Covenants,’ &c., &c. Pekin, OH: By the author, 1840.
See White, History of the Rectangular Survey System, 18–97.
White, C. Albert. A History of the Rectangular Survey System. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.
“Fractional Township 60 North of the Base Line Range 27. West of 5th Principal Meridian,” Daviess Co., MO, 15 Sept. 1838; “Fractional Township 60 North of the Base Line Range 28 West of 5th Principal Meridian,” Daviess Co., MO, 15 Sept. 1838, in Public Land Survey Township Plats, reel 47. The row of townships in the vicinity of Adam-ondi-Ahman were designated 60 north of the baseline for the fifth principal meridian.
Public Land Survey Township Plats, Compiled 1789–1946, Documenting the Period 1785–1946. National Archives Microfilm Publications, microcopy T1234. 67 reels. Washington DC: National Archives, no date.
“Fractional Township 60 North of the Base Line Range 27. West of 5th Principal Meridian,” Daviess Co., MO, 15 Sept. 1838; “Fractional Township 60 North of the Base Line Range 28 West of 5th Principal Meridian,” Daviess Co., MO, 15 Sept. 1838, in Public Land Survey Township Plats, reel 47; Walker, “Losing Land Claims and the Missouri Conflict in 1838,” 257–258.
Public Land Survey Township Plats, Compiled 1789–1946, Documenting the Period 1785–1946. National Archives Microfilm Publications, microcopy T1234. 67 reels. Washington DC: National Archives, no date.
Walker, Jeffrey N. “Losing Land Claims and the Missouri Conflict in 1838.” In Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith’s Legal Encounters, edited by Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 247–270. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
An Act for the Relief of the Purchasers of Public Lands, and for the Suppression of Fraudulent Practices at the Public Sales of the Lands of the United States [31 Mar. 1830], Public Statutes at Large, 21st Cong., 1st Sess., vol. 4, chap. 48, pp. 390–392; An Act to Grant Pre-emption Rights to Settlers on the Public Lands [22 June 1838], Public Statutes at Large, 25th Cong., 2nd Sess., vol. 5, chap. 119, pp. 251–252; Walker, “Losing Land Claims and the Missouri Conflict in 1838,” 248–251.
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.
Walker, Jeffrey N. “Losing Land Claims and the Missouri Conflict in 1838.” In Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith’s Legal Encounters, edited by Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 247–270. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
An Act for the Relief of the Purchasers of Public Lands, and for the Suppression of Fraudulent Practices at the Public Sales of the Lands of the United States [31 Mar. 1830], Public Statutes at Large, 21st Cong., 1st Sess., vol. 4, chap. 48, p. 391.
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.
JS, Journal, 4–5 June 1838; Swartzell, Mormonism Exposed, 12. William Swartzell recorded that he left his job as a surveyor and cook on 14 June and instead began making shingles to support the house construction at Adam-ondi-Ahman.
Swartzell, William. Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838, Together with an Appendix, Containing the Revelation concerning the Golden Bible, with Numerous Extracts from the ‘Book of Covenants,’ &c., &c. Pekin, OH: By the author, 1840.
In an entry at the beginning of the book, Robinson noted that in addition to a record of “Lands Surveyed, Locations made, and names to whoom located,” the volume was to include surveyed town plats for Far West and Adam-ondi-Ahman.