History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1

by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Jr. Joseph Smith

Footnotes

[1]. That is, 1838, since the Church was organized April 6th, 1830. The date at which the Prophet began the writing of this History is also indicated on a subsequent page, where reference is made to the final return of the plates to the angel, in whose charge they remained "until this day, the second day of May, 1838."

[2]. The Mack family, at least back to Ebenezer Mack, grandfather of Lucy, was from the state of Connecticut (Joseph Smith and his Progenitors, by Lucy Smith, ch. 9.)