John C. Bennett's Nauvoo Lodge Minute Book 1 postdates petitions for admission to the lodge.
Lodge Minutes for March 17, 1842, Nauvoo Masonic Lodge minutes (Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book 1), John C. Bennett Copy, MS 9115, Church History Library, accessed February 23, 2022
Thursday, March 17th A.L. 5842, A.D. 1842. . . .
Petitions were presented from Willard Richards, . . . J. B. Backenstos, . . . Wm. F. Cahoon, . . .
John C. Bennett was excommunicated in May 1842.