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W. Woodruff, J. Taylor, G.A. Smith, and W. Richards left New York on April 2d, and landed at Liverpool on May 20. June 5. Mr. Joseph Smith was arrested under a requisition from the Governor of the State of Missouri, was tried at Monmouth, Illinois, on the 9th, and was acquitted on the next day. July 1. Messrs. Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball returned from England. Nov. 8. The baptismal font in Nauvoo Temple was dedicated. 1842. March 1. "Book of Abraham" translated and published in "Times and Seasons." May 6. Attempt to assassinate Lieutenant Governor Boggs, attributed to O.P. Rockwell. May 19. Mr. Joseph Smith made Mayor of Nauvoo. Aug. 6. Mr. Joseph Smith prophesied that the Saints would be driven to the Rocky Mountains. Aug. 8. Mr. Joseph Smith arrested a second time under circumstances similar to those of the first. Dec. 7. Mr. O. Hyde returned from his mission to Palestine. Dec. 26. Mr. Joseph Smith, charged with assassination, was arrested a third time under a requisition from the Governor of the State of Missouri. In this year polygamy began to be whispered about Nauvoo (J.H.).

1843. Jan. 5. Mr. Joseph Smith acquitted at Springville. Jan. 20. Mr. O. Pratt received back into the Church. May 6. Lieutenant Governor L.W. Boggs (under Governor D. Dunklin), of Missouri (who had offended the Mormons by driving them from the state in 1838), was shot in the mouth through an open window—an act generally attributed to O.P. Rockwell, Chief of the Danites, "with the connivance and under the instructions of Joseph Smith" (J.H.). In this year Mr. Joseph Smith became Mayor of Nauvoo, vice J.C. Bennett, "cut off for imitating Smith in his spiritual wifedom" (J.H.). Anti-Mormons declare that in 1843 polygamy was enjoined a second time, but not practiced till 1852. June 23. Mr. Joseph Smith again arrested, and released on July 2. July 12. Revelation enjoining polygamy received. Aug. 30. General J.A. Bennett baptized. Nov. 4. Mr. Joseph Smith sent his letters to the candidates for the Presidency of the United States. Nov. 28. Mr. Joseph Smith addresses a memorial to Congress respecting the transactions at Missouri.

1844. Feb. 7. Mr. Joseph Smith issued his address as candidate for the Presidency of the United States. May 17. Mr. Joseph Smith was carried in triumph through the streets of Nauvoo. May 4. Francis M. Higbee, expelled for disobedience from the Church, prosecuted Mr. Joseph Smith for slander, and arrested him under a capias: the defendant then sued out a habeas corpus before the Municipal Court of Nauvoo, of which he was mayor. May 6. Dr. R.D. Foster and Mr. William Law, having libeled, in the "Expositor" paper, Mr. Joseph Smith, accusing him of having taken to spiritual wife Mrs. Foster, were punished by the marshal and municipal officers, who, with a posse, broke the press as a nuisance, and burned the types. The libelers fled, and took out a warrant against Mr. Joseph Smith and others, who resisted and repelled the officer in charge, whereupon the militia was ordered out. June 13. The Gentiles armed against the Mormons. June 17. Mr. Joseph Smith arrested and released. June 24. Governor Ford, of Illinois, persuaded the Smiths, under the pledge of his word, and the faith and honor of the state, to yield up their arms, and sent them prisoners under the charge of sixty militia-men, the Carthage Grays, a highly hostile body, commanded by Captain Smith, to Carthage, the capital of Hancock Co., eighteen to twenty miles from Nauvoo, where 5000 Mormons were in arms. June 25. The prisoners were arrested by the constable on a charge of treason.