Footnotes
For more on the creation of Caldwell County and the founding of Far West, Missouri, see Application for Land Patent, 22 June 1836; and Letter from William W. Phelps, 7 July 1837; see also “Description of Far West Plat,” 1837, copy, Brigham Young University and Church History and Doctrine Department, Church History Project Collection, CHL.
“Description of Far West Plat,” 1837. Brigham Young University and Church History and Doctrine Department, Church History Project Collection, 1977–1981. Photocopy. CHL. Original at State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.
Murdock, Journal, 27–30 July 1836.
Murdock, John. Journal, ca. 1830–1859. John Murdock, Journal and Autobiography, ca. 1830–1867. CHL. MS 1194, fd. 2.
Thomas B. Marsh to Wilford Woodruff, in Elders’ Journal, July 1838, 36–38, italics in original.
Elders’ Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Kirtland, OH, Oct.–Nov. 1837; Far West, MO, July–Aug. 1838.
Minute Book 2, 3 and 7 Apr. 1837.
Thomas B. Marsh to Wilford Woodruff, in Elders’ Journal, July 1838, 36–38.
Elders’ Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Kirtland, OH, Oct.–Nov. 1837; Far West, MO, July–Aug. 1838.
Minute Book 2, 7 Apr. 1837.
The agreement involved Phelps and Whitmer deeding the Far West plat to Edward Partridge. The Missouri bishop then mortgaged the plat to Phelps and Whitmer, bonding himself to pay them $3,450 within the next two years. (Edward Partridge to John Whitmer and William W. Phelps, Bond, 17 May 1837, John Whitmer Family Papers, CHL; Edward Partridge and Lydia Clisbee Partridge to John Whitmer and William W. Phelps, Mortgage, 17 May 1837, John Whitmer Family Papers, CHL; Minutes, 6 Nov. 1837.)
John Whitmer Family Papers, 1837–1912. CHL.
Minutes, 6 Nov. 1837; Minutes, 10 Nov. 1837; Minute Book 2, 5–9 Feb. 1838, pp. 97–98.
See Letter to John Corrill and the Church in Missouri, 4 Sept. 1837; and Thomas B. Marsh to Wilford Woodruff, in Elders’ Journal, July 1838, 36–37.
Elders’ Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Kirtland, OH, Oct.–Nov. 1837; Far West, MO, July–Aug. 1838.
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