[William Clayton Journal] At President Joseph's all day. Finished settlement with E[benezer] Robinson and passed receipts in full. After posted Books and prepared accounts for settlement on the Lawrence Estate. (1)
-- Jan 11, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 11th Spent the day in writing. (2)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Thursday, January 11th 1844 At home. At 10 A.M. rode out and returned [at] 1 1/2 P.M. This morning W[illia]m Jones was arrested by Col[onel] Levi Williams and his company and kept him in custody without rations till noon. [several lines left blank]
The Twelve [Apostles] issued notices to the Saints at Nauvoo to cut and draw 75 or 100 cords of wood for the Prophet on the 15th and 16[th] January. (3)
-- Jan 12, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 12th Spent the day at home. (2)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Friday, January 12th 1844 [several lines left blank] Thaw, Snow nearly gone. (3)
-- Jan 13, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 13th The City Council met & treated upon the Subject of granting licence for retailing liquors. President Smith addressed the Council a number of times.
I commenced shingleing my house this day. Let the Job to John Gray for $12. The Cornish Cost $22, the tin gutter $7. (2)
[Brigham Young] --13-- Attended city council.
--14 (Sunday)-- Preached in the city. In the evening attended prayer meeting at the Assembly Room. My wife Mary Ann and I received our second anointing. (4)
The Nauvoo City Council meets and "treated upon the Subject or granting licence for retailing liquors." (5)
The ten policemen who were not present on Jan. 5 to swear in the supposed threats against William Marks and William Law testify that they have never received any private instructions from Joseph Smith against any of his supposed enemies. (6)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Saturday, January 13th 1844 At home in the Morning. 10 o'clock went into City County [Council] and continued till sunset with one hour's intermission for dinner. Saw Petitions for Licence to retail spirits called up &c. (3)
-- Jan 14, 1844
[Anointed Quorum] Sunday evening prayer circle meeting in the upper room of Joseph Smith's store, but he "did not go." Wilford Woodruff said it was a meeting "with the quorum of the Twelve. Conversed upon a variety of subjects building the Temple, the endowment &c." (ww). Elden Jay Watson, ed., Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844 [Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968]. and Statement of Heber C. Kimball and George A. Smith, 4 Jan. 1857, added to JS-F entry of 14 Jan. 1844 state that Brigham and Mary Ann Young received the second anointing on this date. If true, this was a repetition of the ceremony the couple originally received on 22 Nov. 1843. Someone besides Joseph Smith performed this repeated second anointing for Brigham and Mary Young . (7)
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Jan 14th Sunday I preached in the morning at Br Haws. In the evening I met with the quorum of the Twelve. Conversed upon a variety of subjects building the Temple, the endowment &c. Some good ideas advanced. (2)
Brigham Young records in his journal, "My wife Mary Ann and I received our second anointing." (5)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Sunday, January 14th 1844 At home. [several lines left blank] Prayer meeting at the assembly room. Did not go.10 /H[eber] C. K[imball] and G[eorge] A. S[mith] in history office G[reat] S[alt] L[ake] City, Jan[uar]y 4th 1857 that
say
B[righam] Y[oung] and wife Mary Ann anointed/ 11 Warm, rainy towards night and evening. (3)
Isaac Morley is sealed to his second plural wife, Hannah Blakeslee Finch. (8)
The endowed quorum meets for prayer. (8)
Footnotes:
1 - 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
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1843-44, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
4 - Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).
5 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
6 - Conklin, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
7 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45, http://amzn.to/origins-power
8 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
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