FootnoteThe statement was obtained “from two highly respectable clergymen, the Rev. Mr. Austin and the Rev. A. Ely, D.D., residing in Monson, Mass”. http://solomonspalding.com/docs1/1842ClkB.htm#pg216a In the Boston Recorder (April 8, 1839), John Storrs reported:...
FootnoteFor five years after publication of Howe’s Mormonism Unvailed on Nov. 28, 1834, Rigdon and Smith provided no written rebuttal to that book’s central thesis, i.e. that Rigdon had modified Spalding’s work to create The Book of Mormon. On May 27, 1839, however,...
FootnoteMormonism Unvailed (1834): “We have been credibly informed that he [Rigdon] was on terms of intimacy with Lambdin, being seen frequently in his shop. Rigdon resided in Pittsburgh about three years, and during the whole of that time, as he has since frequently...
