FootnoteVan Wagoner, R. S., 1994. Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess. Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT. Pages 75-76. Book of John Whitmer and Image: http://emp.byui.edu/SATTERFIELDB/Rel341/Jan%201831%20Conference.html
FootnotePomeroy Tucker’s picture of Sidney Rigdon preaching in Palmyra, New York, in 1830 http://www.solomonspalding.com/docs1/1867TucA.htm D&C 35:3-4, (BC 37) recorded Dec 1830, linked Rigdon to John the Baptist: “Behold, verily, verily, I say unto my...
FootnoteYoung Phelps: http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~22606~750118:-Portraits-of–Public-men–W-W–Phe Some reports indicate that Phelps first met Smith on Dec 21; others give Dec 24 as the date. Evidence that Phelps was a...
FootnoteThe Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, p. 37. m Ch 5 http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/PPPratt.html http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Lamanite_Mission_of_1830-1831
Footnotehttp://www.solomonspalding.com/docs/prt1838b.htm#pg42a Parley P. Pratt, Mormonism Unvailed (New York: O. Pratt and E. Fordham, 1838), 41; Times and Seasons, vol. 4, no. 18, 1 August 1843, 290. At first Sidney Rigdon expressed “considerable doubt”...