[Joseph Smith Diary] Monday, October 16th 1843 About home attending to family concerns. Adjourned court till 17[th October at] 8 A.M. (1)
-- Oct 16, 1843, Monday
[William Clayton Writings] Monday 16th. ... P.M at the Temple Office & sis. Booths. S.A is to be married to Jno Needham tomorrow (2)
-- Oct 17, 1843
[Joseph Smith Diary] October 17th, Tuesday Municipal court 8 A.M. or 9 1/2 Drown discharged, no one appearing against him. (1)
-- Oct 18, 1843
[Joseph Smith Diary] Wednesday, October 18th [several lines left blank] Pleasant and comfortable. (1)
-- Oct 18, 1843, Wednesday
[William Clayton Writings] Wednesday 18. ... P.M. went to J's - did not see him spent 2 hours with lovely M. (2)
-- Oct 19, 1843
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith and William Clayton started for Macedonia, Illinois (now Webster), and arrived at sundown. (3)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Thursday, October 19th 1843 [several lines left blank] O[liver] H. Olney married.2 Warm and pleasant. The water has risen about 2 feet in the Missi[ssi]ppi and is rising. (1)
John Bair polygamous marriage to Lucinda T. Owen (4)
Joseph Smith tells William Clayton that Emma had "turned quite friendly and kind. Emma offers advice to Clayton regarding his plural wife Margaret Moon. (5)
Smith tells his secretary William Clayton not to worry about an upcoming birth from a polygamous union, assuring him that if it becomes necessary to excommunicate him, Smith will immediately reinstate him. Smith told Clayton, said "Just keep her [the mother and baby] at home and brook it and if they raise trouble about it and bring you before me I will give you an awful scourging and probably cut you off from the church and then I will baptise you and set you ahead as good as ever." Smith tells secretary William Clayton not to worry about love child . PLACE: Nauvoo, IL SOURCE: William Clayton Journal 2, "Nauvoo, Illinois," October 19, 1843. (6)
William Clayton Records first "second anointing" ceremony, which was received by Joseph and Emma Smith. (7)
-- Oct 19, 1843. Thursday.
[William Clayton Journal] A.M. at the Temple Office comparing books and recording deeds. At 11 W[illiam] Walker came and said President Joseph wanted me to go to Macedonia. I went immediately to see him and he requested me to go with him. I went home and got dinner and got ready. He soon came up and we started out. After we had got on the road he began to tell me that E[mma] was turned quite friendly and kind. She had been anointed and he also had been a[nointed] K[ing]. He said that it was her advice that I should keep M[argaret] at home and it was also his council. Says he just keep her at home and brook it and if they raise trouble about it and bring you before me I will give you an awful scourging and probably cut you off from the church and then I will baptise you and set you ahead as good as ever. (8)
-- Oct 20, 1843
[Joseph Smith Diary] October 20th B[enjamin] F. Johnson and wife Melissa LaBarron by Hy[rum] Smith {Listed Marriage} (9)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Friday, October 20th 1843 Heard that Joseph went to Ramus yesterday [and] has not returned. [several lines left blank]
Oliver H. Olney's Mormonism Exposed [Absurdities of Mormonism Portrayed] were found in the streets of Preston in great numbers. [several lines left blank]
John P. Green returned from a mission to the east N[ew] York with about 100 emigrants. Some of them from P[ennsylvani]a which he fell in with on the way.
Warm [and] smoky, and strong wind. Very dark evening. (1)
Footnotes:
1 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1843-44, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
2 - Fillerup, Robert C., compiler; William Clayton Nauvoo Diaries and Personal Writings, A chronological compilation of the personal writings of William Clayton while he was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois. http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/clayton-diaries
3 - Joseph Smith Resource Center: Daily Events in the Life of Joseph Smith, http://josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e581001cfb340010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRDlocale=0
4 - Smith, George D (Spring 1994), "Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27
5 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
6 - Joseph Smith Polygamy Timeline, http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/JS_Polygamy_Timeline.htm
7 - Smith, George D., An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, p.lxiii, A William Clayton Chronology, http://amzn.to/william-clayton
8 - George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton
9 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1843, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
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