Learn more about the Joseph Smith Papers project.   View this email in your browser New Content on the Joseph Smith Papers Website The Joseph Smith Papers is pleased to announce its latest web release, which includes the division of the Legal and Business Record Series into two separate online series: Legal Records and Financial Records. The Financial Records series features Joseph Smith’s financial transactions, both personal and in various organizations and businesses, while the Legal Records series continues to focus on Joseph Smith's legal records. Documents within the Financial Records series will be published over the next few years. This release also includes the publication of more Nauvoo City Council documents, eleven history drafts, and introductions to eight legal cases from Missouri, Illinois, and Ohio. The new Financial Records series includes documents and introductions for three financial records. The Kirtland Safety Society Daybook: This daybook for the Kirtland Safety Society Bank contains entries for loans as well as for the issuing of Kirtland Safety Society notes in exchange for banknotes from other financial institutions. The Kirtland Safety Society Discounted Notes: These loose pages are a record the Kirtland Safety Society banking office used to track certain transactions. The Rigdon, Smith & Co. Ledger: This ledger is from a store in Chester, Ohio, that was run by a mercantile company composed of Sidney Rigdon, JS, and possibly Oliver Cowdery. It includes basic accounts and reflects the store's decline in business around the time of a nationwide financial panic in 1837. The Nauvoo City Council documents include an ordinance establishing a ferry, as well as resolutions to increase protection for Nauvoo citizens and an ordinance establishing a police force in the city after two people were kidnapped and taken to Missouri. In the Histories series, we have added transcripts to much of the draft material for Joseph Smith’s multivolume history, including the rough draft notes for the years 1840–1842. Our additions to the Legal Records series include introductions to six debt cases and two criminal cases. These cases feature Joseph Smith acting as defendant, witness, and justice of the peace. The following cases are included in this release: Hibbard for the use of Hungerford & Livingston v. Miller and JS State of Illinois v. Elliott–A and State of Illinois v. Elliott–B Niswanger v. Wight and Jett M. F. Thompson v. F. Dixon and E. Dixon State of Missouri v. Gates et al. for Arson Boosinger v. JS et al. and Boosinger v. Cowdery et al. Bank of Geauga v. JS et al.   Visit us at: josephsmithpapers.org and on Facebook The Church Historian’s Press is an imprint of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are receiving this email because of your interest in the Joseph Smith Papers Project. Terms of Use (Updated 2018-09-01) | Privacy Notice (Updated 2018-09-01) © 2020 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Joseph Smith Papers Project 15 E. North Temple St. Salt Lake City, UT 84150 unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences