Footnotehttp://solomonspalding.com/docs2/1914Shk1.htm#pg055b http://lavazone2.com/dbroadhu/OH/evan1832.htm#000043 Thomas Clapp, a deacon in the church where Rigdon preached, confirmed Bentley’s statement: “Elder Adamson Bentley told me that as he was one day riding...
FootnoteReuben Harmon: “I was personally acquainted with Rigdon….I have heard [him] several times say in his sermons that before long the Indian mounds and forts about there would all be explained. He…established a Communistic Society before Mormonism was heard of.”...
FootnoteSaid Darwin Atwater, a Patriarch in the Disciples Church at Mantua: “That he [Rigdon] knew before of the coming of The Book of Mormon is to me certain, from what he said the first of his visits to my father’s some years before [at about the close of January...
