Footnotes
Fielding was appointed as president of the British mission on 8 April 1838, with Clayton as his second counselor. (Thompson, Journal of Heber C. Kimball, 37–38; Fielding, Journal, 10 Apr. 1838, 60.)
Thompson, Robert B. Journal of Heber C. Kimball an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Nauvoo, IL: Robinson and Smith, 1840.
Fielding, Joseph. Journals, 1837–1859. CHL. MS 1567.
Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 40.
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.
William Clayton, Penwortham, England, to Brigham Young and Willard Richards, Manchester, England, 19 Aug. 1840, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL. The Saints reached New York Harbor on 17 July but were held in quarantine for three days before being allowed to disembark. (Allen and Alexander, Manchester Mormons, 98.)
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
Allen, James B., and Thomas G. Alexander, eds. Manchester Mormons: The Journal of William Clayton, 1840 to 1842. Santa Barbara, CA: Peregrine Smith, 1974.
“Book of the Life of Hugh Moon,” 25–26.
“The Book of the Life of Hugh Moon.” In Biographical Sketches of the Moon Family of Malad, Idaho, compiled by Deseret Moon, Elva E. Moon, Ellen Greer Rees, and Lavern Ward, 23–38. Provo, UT, 1955. Copy at BYU.
The letter is preceded and followed in the letterbook by incoming and outgoing JS correspondence dated to the last two weeks of July 1840. (Letter to Horace Hotchkiss, 28 July 1840; Letter from John C. Bennett, 25 July 1840.)
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Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and their associates in the British mission had enjoyed considerable success in their proselytizing efforts. At the general conference of the church held in Preston the previous month, representatives gave reports of thirty-three local congregations, the membership of which totaled over 1,600. In the six weeks prior to the conference, Wilford Woodruff baptized 158 people near Ledbury, England, and reported another 200 were ready to be baptized (30 of whom were baptized prior to Woodruff’s return from Preston). (“From England,” Times and Seasons, June 1840, 1:119–122; Clayton, Diary, 15 Apr. 1840; Woodruff, Journal, 14–16 Apr. 1840.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Clayton, William. Diary, Vol. 1, 1840–1842. BYU.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Although John Moon’s company was the first group of English Latter-day Saints to emigrate, the second company, led by Theodore Turley, departed Liverpool on 8 September 1840 and arrived in Nauvoo five months earlier than the first company, on 24 November 1840. According to Clayton—who, with his family, emigrated with Turley’s group—this much larger second company numbered 201 individuals. (Clayton, Diary, 8 Sept. and 24 Nov. 1840.)
Clayton, William. Diary, Vol. 1, 1840–1842. BYU.
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