[Lucy Mack Smith] Eliza moves out of Joseph's and Emma's house and Lucy moves in. The Smiths are still living in the Homestead with their four children. After a six-month hiatus in marrying plural wives, Joseph marries his fifteenth plural wife. By November 1843, he has married sixteen more women, but then marries no more before his death. (1)
William Wines Phelps: Elected mayors clerk and fire warden for City of Nauvoo 11 February 1843. (2)
-- Feb 11th 1843
[High Council Minutes]
Council met according to adjournment at H Smith's office
W. Marks & C.C. Rich Presiding. Councillors present
1) Peter Hawes pro tem 2) Allred 3) Wilson (Abraham Parmer pro tem 5) Fulmer 6) Eli Norton pro tem 7) Grover 8) Johnson Knight 10) Huntington 11) Soby 12) Charles Snow pro tem.
Prayer by Thomas Grover.
I hereby prefer a charge against Noble Rogers and wife for unchristian- like conduct.
First That Nancy and Joseph Gilbert has stolen both wood and corn of them.
2nd They positively deny ever stating that the said Nancy and Jospeh or Mister Gilbert has stolen any thing from them. (3)
-- Feb 12, 1843
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 12 Sunday I spent the time at home writing. (4)
George J. Adams is charged with adultery after returning to Nauvoo from his mission with a wife in addition to his Nauvoo wife. He is restored to full fellowship three months later, and a TIMES AND SEASONS announcement says he has been "honorably acquitted of all charges." (5)
[Joseph Smith] Joseph answers several inquiries concerning the end of the world in the coming spring as predicted by William Miller. The Prophet says that Millerism is false because the prophecies that must precede Christ have not all yet been fulfilled. (6)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Sunday, February 12th 1843 Some 7 or 8 young men called to see me, part of them from the city of N[ew] York. They treated me with the greatest respect. I shewed them the fallacy of Mr. Miller's data concerning the Millerism and preached them quite a sermon. Shewed them that the error is in the Bible or translation and that Miller is in want of information. The Prophecies must be fulfilled; sun be turned into darkness, moon into black and many more things before Christ come. (7)
-- Feb 13, 1843
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 13, 14 15 16 17 18 Spent the time in the printing Office. Get along well with the doctrins & covenants. But we have exeeding Cold weather. (4)
At Orson Hyde's house Joseph Smith says that those who come to Nauvoo but don't buy their land through the church "must be cut off." At this time Joseph Smith is chief land agent for the Church but is getting competition from William Law. (5)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Monday, February 13th 1843 Elder Rigdon came in early in the morning and gave a brief history [of] the 2d visit of the Presidency to Jackson Co[unty], Missouri.
Recited in German and walked out in the city with Elder Hyde. /Returned at 12 o'clock/ Elder Samuel Snider of Job /Creek/ Branch gave a bag of flour hearing [that] the President was in want. [He] also [gave] a dollar in cash from Sister Davis of the same place. John C. Annis come in for council about wood taken from Iowa and got it. The Marshall come in and stated that one Ralston was trying to get the Post office and Dr. Foster had signed the Petition for the first one. Gave instruction concerning bonding 1/8 of the lot north of his dwelling to John Oakley for $500 dow[n] [and] $100 in 3 months.
1/4 [to] 4 P.M. [Joseph] said he would go to printing office with W[illiam] W. Phelps.
Evening at O[rson] Hyde's with Bro[ther] Dixon from Salem, M[a]ss[achusetts]. [Joseph] said that those who come here having money and purchased without the Church and without council must be cut of[f] and many observations which aroused Bro[ther] Dixon's feelings much.
Copy [of a petition] to the Hon[orable] Mr. Bryant, 2nd Ass[istan]t [to the] P[ost] M[aster] General.
We, your petitioners, beg leave respectfully to submit that as an attempt is now, by certain individuals, being made to place the Post Office in this place into hands of William H. Rollison a stranger in our place, and one whose conduct since he came here, has been such as to forbid our having confidence in him, and we do hope and pray, both for our sakes, and that of the public, that he may not receive the appointment of Post Master in Nauvoo, Ill[inois] but that the present Post Master may continue to hold the office.
Bro[ther] J[oseph] Smith, If the foregoing can have a number of respectable subscribers I believe Rollison cannot get the office. I should like to have it so as to send it out on Sunday's mail.
Res[pect]f[ul]ly,
Sidney Rigdon (7)
-- Feb 14, 1843
Wilford Wodruff writes: "At about half past Seven oclock in the evening the sword which had made its appearance for several evenings past moved up near the moon & formed itself into a large ring around the moon. Two Balls immediately appeared in the ring opposite of each other sumthing in the form of sundogs. Another half ring is hung from those Balls sumthing in the shape of a horse shoe extending outside of the first ring with one line running through the center of the moon." He draws a picture in his journal of the phenomenon. Four days earlier he had written, "I Wilford Woodruff testify that about 7 oclock PM I discovered a stream of light in the south west quarter of the heavens. The rays of Light were in the form of a Broadsword with the hilt downward . . .The following is the declaration of Joseph the Seer conserning the foregoing sign: As sure as there is a God who sits enthroned in the heavens & as sure as he ever spoke to me So sure there will be a spe[e]dy & Bloody
war & the broad sword seen last evening is the sure sign thereof." (5)
Footnotes:
1 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
2 - 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
3 - Minutes of the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Nauvoo Illinois: Nauvoo Hancock County Illinois
4 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993
5 - This Day in Mormon History, http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html
6 - Conklin, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
7 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1842-43
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