26. The official record of this ceremony is Adoption Record, Book A, p. 26, LDS Church History Library. This source is restricted and therefore not available to most researches. I have examined photographs of this document. At least three other sources provide transcriptions of this record: David J. Buerger, “Confidential Research Files, 1950-1974,” Folder 5, 4, David J. Buerger Papers, Special Collections and Archives, Marriott Library, University of Utah; Devery S. Anderson, ed., The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, Smith-Pettit Foundation Book (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), 97–98; and Connell, “Chronology Pertaining to Blacks and the LDS Church | Jane M. James Sealed as Eternal Servant to Joseph Smith | Event View,” accessed May 4, 2012, http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=66094. Unfortunately, each of these transcriptions differs from the other and from the original. Most differences are minor, but one is crucial: none of these transcriptions names Zina D. H. Young as the proxy for Jane James. The original document clearly designates Young as Jane's proxy. "Chronology Pertaining to Blacks" names Bathsheba W. Smith as Jane's proxy. Anderson claims that "in 1895, Church leaders revoked Manning's sealing"; that the sealing "was restored in 1902"; and that the 1902 ceremony was performed "with Bathsheba Smith acting as proxy" for Jane. Anderson, Development of LDS Temple Worship, 97n51. Anderson cites no source to support these claims and has since withdrawn them. Devery Anderson, personal communication with the author, March 6, 2017. Oddly, this ceremony was performed just about a month and a half after President Wilford Woodruff announced that he had received a revelation on adoption, clarifying the ritual. After Woodruff's revelation, Saints were not to be adopted to people other than their parents. Instead, Woodruff proclaimed at the April general conference that year, "We want the Latter-day Saints from this time to trace their genealogies as far as they can, and to be sealed to their fathers and mothers. Have children sealed to their parents, and run their chain through as far as you can get it." To be in compliance with Woodruff's revelation, Jane should have been sealed to her parents—but instead she was attached to Joseph Smith as a servant. Quotation in [Irving, Gordon. "The law of adoption: One phase of the development of the Mormon concept of salvation." BYU Studies 14 (Spring 1974): 291-314. https://byustudies.byu.edu/PDFLibrary/14.3IrvingLaw-40221750-48c0-4eef-b628-423a4648ba70.pdf. (accessed December 17, 2011)], 312. Jonathan Stapley argues that "it is no coincidence that Manning's extraordinary sealing occurred mere weeks after Woodruff's announcement. Stapley places Jane's sealing ceremony in the context of an understanding of sealing as creating the "family of God" and Brigham Young's abiding belief that "black Mormon women and men were not to be integrated into the material family of God." [Stapley, Jonathan A. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology. New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018], 21–22.