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Joseph Smith's life would be prolonged to fill a certain mission - two sources that speak of about five years—one of them giving the conditional...
Quashquame, named in honor of the Native American chief who headed a Sauk and Meskwaki settlement numbering nearly 500 lodges.
1832, the town, by then called Venus.
1834, the name Venus was changed to Commerce.
1839, The Church purchased land from Dr. Isaac Galland, who lived in Montrose, Iowa
April 1840 Commerce was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith
See also Keokuk, Iowa Territory
The word comes from Isaiah 52:7, derived from the traditional Hebrew language with an anglicized spelling -
"How beautiful (נָּאווּ, nâwû) upon the mountains..."
Hyrum set over Navoo as "co-prophet"... 2x links in Joseph Smith papers
The Sac and Fox Indians at Nauvoo
“Late in the summer of 1841 a group of Native Americans of the Sac and Fox tribes (who had been displaced from their homelands in Michigan and were now west of the Mississippi in present-day Iowa and Missouri) came to visit the Prophet Joseph Smith. The meeting was recorded in the History of the Church. Joseph writes of this meeting on August 12, 1841:
12 August 1841 - Thursday
"A considerable number of the Sac & Fox Indians have been for several days encamped in the neighborhood of Montrose. The ferryman this morning brought over a great number on the Ferry boat and two Flat boats for the purpose of visiting me. <The Military band, and a detachment of Invincibles were on shore ready to receive & escort them to the grove, but they refused to come on shore until I went down.>
I accordingly went down, and met “Keokuk,” “Kish-ku-Kosh,” “Appenoose,” and about 100 Chiefs and Braves of those tribes with their families at the landing, introduced my brother Hyrum [Smith] to them, and after the usual salutations, conducted them to the meeting ground in the grove, and instructed them in many things which the Lord had revealed unto me concerning their Fathers, and the promises that were made concerning them in the Book of Mormon; and advised them to cease killing each other and warring with other tribes, and keep peace with the whites; which was interpreted to them.
Keokuk replied he had a Book of Mormon at his Wickaup which I had given him some years before. “I believe,” said he, “you are a great and good man; I look rough, but I also am a Son of the Great Spirit. I’ve heard your advice— we intend to quit fighting and follow the good talk you have given us.”
After the conversation they were feasted on the green with good food, dainties, and melons by the brethren; and they entertained the spectators with a specimen of their dancing..."
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“Our object,” noted George Miller, is not just “to unite all the Indian tribes from north to south and west to the Pacific Ocean in one body,” but to also “include ourselves in that number.” - SRC - council-of-fifty-minutes-march-1844-january-1846-volume-2-1-march-6-may-1845, pg. 197-98 => View Entire Transcript
"...large numbers of indians came into camp all friendly and seemed to understand perfectly well the nature of our move and also our ultimate union with them & our return to the lands of our inheritance…” -- Hosea Stout, 28th June
Stock certificate for the "Half Breed Land Company", issued in May 1839, indicating the venture was a formal, though speculative, enterprise.
1839, the Half-Breed Land Company was a land speculation venture in southeastern Iowa, tied to the Half-Breed Tract and promoted by land speculator Isaac Galland. Galland, a trustee for the New York Land Company, sold portions of this land, which was set aside for mixed-race descendants of the Sauk and Meskwaki nations, to the Latter-day Saints (LDS) Church.
Land origin: The 119,000-acre Half-Breed Tract was created by an 1830 treaty for mixed-race descendants of the Sauk and Meskwaki nations.
Speculation: The land was primarily swampland and was difficult to develop, but land speculators like Galland saw opportunities to profit from it.
LDS Church involvement: In 1839, Galland offered to sell 20,000 acres of the tract to the LDS Church.
Interesting... JS visits with Galland, but says "Rigdon, Higbee, and myself are of opinion that it is not wisdom to make a trade with the Doctr. at present"...
August 25. 1841 Horace R. Hotchkiss Esqre. New Haven Connecticut— writes to JS about "The Hotchkiss purchase", who mentions Galland...
Jacob G. Remick <& <wife>> To Joseph Smith
Know all men by these presents that I Jacob G. Remick of Keokuk Lee county and Iowa Territory for and in consideration of the sum of twenty thousand dollars to me in hand paid by Joseph Smith of the City of Nauvoo Hancock county and state of Illinois hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain sell and forever quit claim unto the said Joseph Smith and his heirs and assigns the undivided half part in common of all the right, title and estate in and to all lands improvements and possessions which I the <before> said Jacob G. Remick owns or claims to own in the Half Breed land situated between the rivers Des Moines and Mississippi for which was reserved in a treaty made between the United States and the Sac and Fox Nations or tribes of Indians in the year A. D. 1834 reserving the same for the Half Breeds of said nations or tribes of Indians and meaning and intending hereby to sell and convey the undivided half in common of all the lands improvements buildings possessions and rights of every kind which I own or claim to own within said Tract either in law or equity which I hold by virtue of a deed from Isaac Galland to me bearing date January 30th A. D. 1842 which is recorded in the clerks office of said county of Lee at Fort Madison in deed book No. 3. on pages 178— 179— 180 | Town of Keokuk...
To have and to hold the above described property and their appurtenances unto the said Joseph Smith and his heirs and assigns forever in as full a manner as I the said Jacob G. Remick have by virtue of the aforesaid Galland’s deed to me and I the said Jacob G. Remick for me and my heirs hereby covenant to and with the said Joseph Smith and his heirs and assigns that there has been no prior conveyance made by me of the aforesaid premises or any part or parcel thereof...
Joseph Smith was buying land in Iowa - 1842
Bond to Isaac Davis, 11 April 1840
Deed for $560 to purchase four hundred and forty eight acres of land Situated lying and being in the Territory of Iowa and being in the Sac and Fox half breed reservation in Lee County of said Territory
Deed to John Smith, 10 February 1844
Deed from JS to SELL for $1 all those tracts and parcels of land situated and being in the County of Lee and Territory of Iowa, which were deeded to me by J[acob] G. Remick said Deeds being on Record in the recorders office at Fort Madison.
"There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge, and a pumpkin for a beetle.
"There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge, and a pumpkin for a beetle.
Even the Saints are slow to understand"
Even the Saints are slow to understand"
"When Joseph Smith was crowned King of Israel, there were a Native American delagation on the stand..."
Researching the King Follett Discourse & JSP History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
by Jeffrey Tucker, Church History Library
14 September 2021
see also "6–9 April 1844, Brigham Young noted "...the stand was occupied by the [First] Presidency, the Twelve and others, among whom were eleven Lamanite chiefs and braves, it was estimated there were about 20,000 persons present, ...The Prophet declared that all North and South America was the land of Zion." -- Brigham Young
An 1824 treaty between the United States and the Sauk and Meskwaki nations designated by Euro- Americans as the Sac and Fox tribe) set aside about 119, 000 acres of land between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers, just south of...
The Black Hawk War of 1832 was also known as the Sac and Fox War.
7 March 1843, Garret Bias, a resident of northwest Indiana, wrote a letter from St. Joseph County, Indiana, to JS in Nauvoo, Illinois, proposing a sale of weapons in Nauvoo. Bias claimed he had obtained the arms, which were government issued, during the 1832 Black Hawk War, a conflict between federal and state military units and members of the Sauk and Meskwaki nations
...William W. Phelps says the U. S. report only ab t. 2 or 300, 000— also reported the speechs of Sacs Foxes— who are dissatisfied— we can now make a virtue— unite our teams plow with Ephraim as well as the...
"Emmett was called to acc[oun]t. & was rebuked by Pres. Smith— he sd. dont take the Indians from Augusta— he had no authority to even take his family— in violation to every covenant made to the Prophet..."
Appendix 5, Document 4. Draft Notes, 1844
Willard Richards penciled notes of Joseph Smith’s interview with some representatives of the Sauk and Fox tribe on a test print page of a habeas corpus writ. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-5-document-4-draft-notes-1844/1
"all the above tracts are situate in Township Sixty Six North, Five West, of the fifth principal meridian, in the Sac and Fox Half Breed Reservation in Iowa Territory containing One thousand nine hundred and ninety eight acres 15/100ths."
Jeanette Smith Leavitt, married 10 Mar 1860 in Parowan, Utah to Dudley Leavitt
How many will be able to abide a celestial law, and go through and receive their exaltation, I am unable to say ...as many are called, but few are chosen."
According to Brigham Young, in an address given at The Bowery, October 7, 1863, the Prophet Joseph Smith and told him, “I shall have a son born to me and his name shall be called David; and on him in some future time will rest the responsibility that now rests upon me.” - https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/5b7b99cf-9e69-4967-9e97-bb9fdb7845ac/0/1
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