Footnotehttp://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/josephsmithmethodist.htm “I, with Joshua McKune, a local preacher at that time, I think in June, 1828, heard on Saturday, that Joe Smith had joined the church on Wednesday afternoon, (as it was customary in those days to...
Footnotehttp://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/josephsmithmethodist.htm http://www.fullerconsideration.com/sources.php?cat=HP-JMC “…while he, Smith, was in Harmony, Pa., translating his book…that he joined the M[ethodist] [Episocpal] church. He presented himself in a...
FootnoteThis excerpt comes from “A History of the Life of Joseph Smith”, Joseph Smith Letterbook 1, 1832. According to Dean Jesse, this excerpt is in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams. NSC attributes it to Joseph Smith. Note the conjugation of the verb “to be”....
FootnoteWilliam E. McLellan in a letter to Joseph Smith III (Independence, Missouri, July & Sept 8, 1872): “When Joseph delivered the 116 pages of the translation to Martin Harris, his Plates, his Interpreters, and his gift were taken from him for some two...
FootnoteSignature Books Library: The Essential Joseph Smith Chapter 8. “A History of the Life of Joseph Smith, Jr.” (1832) (from Scott H. Faulring, ed., An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith [Salt Lake City: Signature Books in...
Footnote“Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations, by Lucy Smith, Mother of the Prophet”, Lucy Smith (1853), p. 121. Cited in: Bushman, Richard L. 2005, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Alfred A. Knopf,...