[Joseph Smith]
... I will not tell you how ma[n]y inhabita[n]ts will come to Nauvoo but. I will tell you what I said when I came to Commerce, I told them I could build up a city— & the old inhabitants said— we'll be damnd if you can So I prophecid that I could build up a city. & the inhabtns [inhabitants] prop[h]esied I could not. we have now about 12000 inhabtnts. I will prophecy we will bu[i]ld a great city.
[Source: Joseph Smith, "President Joseph Smith's Journal," 4 vols., Book 1, 21 December 1842–10 March 1843 (Willard Richards)]
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