[Brigham Young] --13-- Attended conference and preached to the Saints; we ordained twenty-eight to the office of elder; the brethren were glad to see us. (1)
-- Jul 13, 1844. Saturday.
[William Clayton Journal] This A.M. [John A.] Forgens paid over $[] from L[yman] Wight and $1000 from Brother Kimball in paper money. He however requested payment of an execution against [Elbridge] Tufts amounting to $254.95 which President Joseph agreed to do. I consulted Cutler and Cahoon and they said I had better pay it which I did. Emma sent for me to enquire about the title to Snyders Lot. She talked much about Trustees being appointed and says if he is not a man she approves of she will do the church all the injury she can by keeping the Lots which are in her name. (2)
-- Jul 14, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 14th I held meeting with the Saints to day in Franklin hall franklin st Boston. I preached in the forenoon administered the sacrament in the afternoon & Preached again in the evening. We had an interesting time. I had the spirit of Preaching. I spoke in the forenoon from Luke 21 ch. in the afternoon to the saints from the doctrins and covenants & my Journal, in the evening from Rev 14 Ch 6 7 & 8 verses /& Rev 6 ch. 9, 10 & 11 verses/. The house was Crowded through the day. I spent the night at Br Phelps. (3)
-- Jul 14, 1844, Sunday
[William Clayton Writings] About the middle of July, the sisters of the branches of LaHarpe and Macedonia sent word to the temple committee and stated their anxiety to see this building progress still more rapidly.
They proposed if the committee would build another crane, they would furnish the means to build it with, and seemed wishful to go ahead with it immediately. The committed and recorder councilled on the subject and it was decided to comply with the wishes of the sisters.
Sister Clark, wife of Raymond Clark, was authorized to collect the contributions. She immediately started, and returned on the 29th with money and other property, amounting in the whole to $194, which was more than sufficient to build a new crane. (4)
[William Clayton Writings] Monday 15. ... Emma sent for me. I went & conversed considerable with her. She feels dissatisfied with the conduct of Richards and Phelps & says if they undertake to trample upon her shel will look to herself. I conversed with Richards & Phelps & told them our feelings & they seem to feel more free. They told me the names of those they had thought of nominating for Trustees, Myself & A. Cutler are two of them. I told Emma of this & she seems better satisfied (4)
[William Clayton Writings] Sunday 14. ... At 6 went to the council. Phelps & Richards & P.P. Pratt stated that they had concluded to appoint 4 Trustees when a majority of the Twelve returned. These three brethern seem to keep matters very close to themselves and I and several others feel grieved at it. After meeting I informed Emma of the proceedings. She thinks they dont use her right. (4)
-- Jul 15, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 15th I sent Mrs Phebe W. Woodruff Benn[on?] weekly herald containing cuts and accounts of the Philadelphia riots & of the death of Joseph & Hiram Smith. (3)
[Nauvoo Temple] Willard Richards, Parley P. Pratt, John Taylor and William W. Phelps issued a letter calling on the Saints, "Yea, let us haste to build the temple of our God and to gather thereunto our silver and our gold with us, unto the name of the Lord, and then we may expect that he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths." (5)
-- Jul 15, 1844. Monday.
[William Clayton Journal] ...Emma sent for me. I went and conversed considerable with her. She feels dissatisfied with the conduct of Richard[s] and Phelps and says if they undertake to trample upon her she will look to herself. I conversed with Richards and Phelps and told them our feelings and they seem to feel more free. They told me the names of those they had thought of nominating for Trustees, Myself and A. Cutler are two of them. I told Emma of this and she seems better satisfied. (2)
-- Jul 16, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 16th As I arose in the morning Sister Phelps handed me two Letters one from [.] Snow and one from J. E. Page both Confirming the death of the Patriarch and Prophet Joseph & Hyram Smith. I immediately wrote three letters & sent to Brigham Young one to Peterboro N.H. one to Lowell & one to Brab-ford Mass. I then went to the Post Office & took out a letters directed to G. A. Smith written mostly by his wife. Mrs Woodruff wrote a few lines in it to me the first intelligence I had from her since I left home. She related the following dream that Joseph Smith had a few days before he sealed + his testimony with his blood, about Wm. & Wilson Law:
He thought they bound him and cast him into prision a pit or well as Joseph was anciently. He struggled hard & got up so he could look out & he saw the Laws a little distance off one of them in the hands /grasp/ of a tiger & the other a snake. They called to him to come & help them. He told them they had bound him & they could not. He thought a brother soon came along & took him out of the pit. +
I called upon Sister Voce 57 Temple St. Saw Sister Ruth Sayers who was with her. She also recieved a letter from her husband this day Dated Nauvoo June 30th & still confirmed the death of Joseph & Hiram Smith. Gave the whole particulars Concerning it. (3)
Footnotes:
1 - Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).
2 - 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
3 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
4 - 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
5 - Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple
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