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...
Footnotehttp://richkelsey.org/1826%20agreement.htm The following agreement, the original of which is in the possession of a citizen of Thompson township, was discovered by our correspondent, and forwarded to us as a matter of local interest. The existence of the...
Footnotehttp://signaturebookslibrary.org/?p=13275 Harper’s grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=81875000&PIpi=53081612 http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/PA/penn1820.htm Montrose, May 14. Robbery and Murder! We are informed that the...
Footnotehttp://richkelsey.org/1826%20agreement.htm http://signaturebookslibrary.org/?p=13275 Susquehanna Journal of March 20, 1880, was discovered by Stanley S. Ivins in the Salt Lake City Daily Tribune of April 23, 1880. The article was forwarded to the SL Tribune by...
Footnotehttp://richkelsey.org/1826%20agreement.htm Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism: Correspondence and a New History John Phillip Walker, Editor Appendix A[p.324-26] Joseph Smith on Trial in 1826.
FootnoteVogel, D. 1971. The Locations of Joseph Smith’s Early Treasure Quests. Dialogue V27 No. 3, 197-2229. http://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V27N03_211.pdf Michael Quinn has provided evidence of Smith’s treasure-digging near the...
