FootnoteComplete quote: “Says that he came from town of Palmyra, and had been at the house of Josiah Stowel in Bainbridge most of time since; had small part of time been employed in looking for mines, but the major part had been employed by said Stowel on his farm,...
Footnotehttp://mormonscripturestudies.com/ch/dv/1826.asp Account of A. W. Benton: “Messrs. Editors — In the sixth number of your paper I saw a notice of a sect of people called Mormonites; and thinking that a fuller history of their founder, Joseph Smith, jr., might...
FootnoteIn 1961, Hugh W. Nibley, professor of history and religion at Brigham Young University wrote to the publisher of the court record, Daniel S. Tuttle: If this court record is authentic, it is the most damning evidence in existence against Joseph Smith” Nibley,...
FootnoteJoseph Capron (Mormonism Unvailed, 1834): “At length, Joseph pretended to find the gold plates. This scheme, he believed, would relieve the family from all pecuniary embarrassment. His father told me that when the book was published they would be enabled, from...
