Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smiths history records: I read the Book of Mormon, transacted a variety of business in the store and city, and spent the evening in the office with Elders John Taylor and Willard Richards interpreting dreams. (1)
-- Jan 22, 1842
The QUINCY WHIG discusses Joseph Smith's recent announcement that the Mormons will vote as a bloc: "This clannish principle of voting in a mass, at the dictation of one man, and this man who has acquired an influence over the minds of his people through the peculiar religious creed which he promulgates, is so repugnant to the principles of our Republican form of Government, that its consequences-will be disagreeable to think of bitter hatred and unrelenting hostility will spring up, where before peace and good will had an abiding place (2)
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith revised the rules of the Nauvoo City Council and was elected mayor pro tem of Nauvoo at the council meeting. (1)
-- Jan 27, 1842
Nauvoo, Illinois. On a fairly routine day, Joseph Smith attended to business, put carpet on the floor of his office, and spent the evening in council. (1)
-- Jan 28, 1842
Brigham Young writes in his journal, "The Lord having revealed, through Joseph, that the Twelve should take in hand the editorial department of the TIMES AND SEASONS, I bought the printing establishment, for and in behalf of the Church, from brother Ebenezer Robinson, at a very exorbitant price. The reason I paid such a price was, because the Prophet directed the Twelve to pay him whatever he asked. One item of his bill was $800, for the privilege of publishing the TIMES AND SEASONS, or good will of the office." The short revelation given to Joseph Smith is published but not canonized: "Verily thus saith the Lord unto you, my servant Joseph, go and say unto the Twelve, that it is my will to have them take in hand the editorial department of the Times and Seasons, according to that manifestation which shall be given unto them by the power of my Holy Spirit in the midst of their counsel, saith the Lord. Amen." Ebenezer Robinson's wife had been spying on Joseph Smith's polygamou
s activities and reporting them to Emma. Joseph told Robinson to reprove his wife. When Robinson did not, Smith received the revelation which effectively fired Robinson as editor of the TIMES AND SEASONS. (2)
Joseph Smith has revelation for the 12 to take in hand the editorial department of the Times and Seasons. Brigham Young buys it on behalf of the Church from Ebenezer Robinson for an exorbitant price; Brigham objects to the price but pays it as Joseph Smith told the 12 to pay whatever Robinson asked [per Brigham Young]. (3)
Higbee, Elias: Reproved by Joseph Smith for lack of diligence in raising children and building Nauvoo Temple 28 January 1842. (4)
Nauvoo, Illinois. At his office, Joseph Smith received a revelation directed to the Twelve Apostles concerning the Church newspaper Times and Seasons. (1)
-- 30Jan42
[Joseph Smith Sermon] I preached at my house morning and evening, concerning the different Spirits, their operations, designs--&c. (5)
-- Jan 30, 1842
At Joseph Smith's house he "preached in the morning and in the evening, concerning the different spirits, their operations, designs, &c." (2)
-- During Early 1842
[Heber C. Kimball] Takes first plural wife, Sarah Noon. Two children, Henry and Sarah, as of February 1846. (6)
-- During Jan 1842
[Black History] Smith enters various comments into the history and tangentially remarks upon Negroes being "sons of Cain", which may or may not be intended literally, "Signed deeds for lots, to Law; transacted a variety of business in the city and office. In the evening debated with John C. Bennett and others to show that the Indians have greater cause to complain of the treatment of the whites, than the negroes, or sons of Cain" (History of the Church, 4:502). (7)
[Polygamy] Theodore Turley polygamous marriage to Mary Clift (8)
Footnotes:
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - This Day in Mormon History, http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html
3 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"
4 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
5 - The Parallel Joseph, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/
6 - Kimball, Stanley B. (editor), On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1987
7 - Crapo, Richley, Chronology Pertaining to Blacks and the LDS Priesthood, http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/node/62
8 - Smith, George D (Spring 1994), "Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27
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