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Where the original and copied records are held, with call numbers for requesting them.
Morrisite collection, 1865–1975
USU CAINE COLL MSS 10- Held by
- Special Collections & Archives, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan
- Extent
- 3 linear feet
- Contents
- C. LeRoy Anderson's research files: oral histories, correspondence, tracts, copies of Morris's letters to Brigham Young, membership rolls, Court and Council minutes, letters of the Prophet Cainan, and a copy of Mark H. Forscutt's history of Joseph Morris.
- Access
- Open to research. Publication requires the curator's permission. Finding aid
Deer Lodge, Montana genealogy papers, 1860–1990
USU COLL MSS 157- Held by
- Special Collections & Archives, Utah State University
- Extent
- 2 boxes (1 linear foot)
- Contents
- Family genealogies from the Deer Lodge Valley, compiled by Joan Crum, with particular attention to Morrisite families.
- Access
- Open to research. Finding aid
Morrisite manuscripts, University of Utah
U of U MS 0111 · 0260 · 0261- Held by
- J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
- Contents
- Mark H. Forscutt's partial history of the Morrisite church (MS 0261); Danel W. Bachman's 1970 BYU paper “Joseph Morris and the Morrisites” (MS 0260); Jacob Miller papers (MS 0111); and Karl Banks's essay “A Brief History of John Banks and the Morrisite Movement.”
Gordon M. Howard papers, 1716–1977
USHS Mss B 279- Held by
- Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City
- Extent
- 3 boxes
- Contents
- Howard's research notes, correspondence, and draft chapters on Joseph Morris and the Morrisite War. Box 2 holds copies of court papers: People v. Peter Klingard, Third Judicial District, 1863 (folder 5), and a register of arrests of Morrisites, 1863 (folder 6).
- Access
- Finding aid
William W. Davies collection, 1929–1976
WCMss124- Held by
- Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Walla Walla, Washington
- Contents
- Clippings, copies of depositions, court testimony, and judgments, letters and articles by Davies, and an academic paper on the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Access
- Open. Finding aid
Diaries, letters, and federal records
Several repositories- Church History Library
- Brigham Young correspondence; Journal of Wilford Woodruff; Journal History of the Church; “Niels Anderson matter, 1903” (Joseph F. Smith stake correspondence, CR 1 191; digitized), letters of January–March 1903 from Niels Anderson, one also signed by Mary Christoffersen Anderson, asking the church’s help for the injury Mary received in 1862, with a clerk’s draft for the reply and the Bannock Stake president’s report of May 19, 1903, on the First Presidency’s inquiry; “A Short Sketch of the Genealogy and History of George Morris,” by Joseph Morris’s brother.
- University of Utah
- Diary of Hans Olsen Magleby; journal of John L. Blyth, 1858–1863; pioneer journal of Jacob Miller; Timothy Kendell autobiography (MS 0041), recalling South Weber as briefly called Morristown.
- Utah State Archives
- Territorial militia records (series 2210; images and a name index on FamilySearch, collection 1462415): Acting Governor Fuller’s order of June 11, 1862, calling out the posse (copied in document 1,215); a list of the South Weber company’s officers, April 22, 1859; Weber District muster rolls of the 1857 call-up, which include Robert Farley and John Parson.
- National Archives
- Record Group 60, Department of Justice chronological files, Utah, box 683: Sumner Howard to Attorney General Charles Devens, July 28, 1877.
- Weber State University
- Oral history of Clayton Holt (OH10_046), a teacher who researched the Morrisites in South Weber.
Joseph Morris letters and revelation manuscripts
CR 1234 1 · digitized- Held by
- Church History Library, Salt Lake City
- Contents
- Morris’s letters to Brigham Young (1857–1860), the originals of the copies in the USU collection, and manuscript revelations from 1859–1862, in Brigham Young’s office files (President’s Office Files, General Office Files: folders “Revelations of Joseph Morris, 1858–1860” and “1861–1862”). No letter from Young to Morris has been found. Item-by-item links are given in Kirk Watson’s edition (see Bibliography).
Morrisite scepters
LDS 65-3058 · 3059 · 3060- Held by
- Church History Museum collection, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City
- Description
- Three painted wooden staffs, each with a printed inscription mounted on the shaft. The editor saw them in the museum vault and transcribed the inscriptions. Photographs courtesy of the Church History Museum, of the three scepters together (p. 116) and of an inscription band close up (p. 117), were published with the editor’s transcription of the inscriptions in Anderson, Joseph Morris and the Saga of the Morrisites (Revisited) (2010), 116–17. They are not reproduced here.
- Inscriptions
- Joseph Morris’s scepter declares him sent “to RULE over all ADAM’S posterity” and is signed “Joseph Morris, PRESIDENT of the Melchisidec Priesthood.” The other two belonged to Hugh Park (“number five,” his name written over an earlier one) and Daniel Smith (“number seven”), each presenting himself as a ruler “over all Abraham’s seed.”