Joseph, in his journal, records receiving the assignment to settle the debt with Grandison Newell from Oliver Granger's son, Gilbert.
Joseph Smith, Journal, March 3, 1842, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed April 29, 2024
Thurday 3 Council in the General business office at 9 o clock A.M. in the afternoon continued the settlement with Gilbert Granger. but finally failed to effect any thing but to get Newels Note. Granger refusing to give up. the papers for to the president. which he had recived of his father. the same being church property