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.