by Dan Wees | Jan 11, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Manchester, New York, resident Wallace Miner recalled a boyhood incident with Harris echoing this magic world view. ‘Martin Harris stayed at this home when I was about 13 yrs of age,’ Miner reminisced, ‘I used to go over to the diggings [—remains from Joseph...
by Dan Wees | Jan 10, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“It has remained for a later generation of believers to deny the stories altogether. Joseph himself never denied that he had been a seer in peepstones before establishing himself as a prophet of God.” Dale L. Morgan/Bagley Footnote, Dale Morgan on the Mormons:...
by Dan Wees | Jan 10, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Question 10: Was not Jo Smith a money digger[?] “Answer: Yes, but it was never a very profitable job to him, as he only got fourteen dollars a month for it.” Joseph Smith, Jr./editor, Elders’ Journal of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Far West, MO:...
by Dan Wees | Jan 9, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Joseph once showed me a piece of wood which he said he took from a box of money, and the reason he gave for not obtaining the box, was, that it moved.” Joshua Stafford Statement – 15 November 1833, in John C. Bennett’s History of the Saints (Boston, MA:...
by Dan Wees | Jan 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I was well acquainted with the elder Smith [Joseph, Sr.]; he often came to see me, and we had many long talks together… “Smith told me of the stones his son Joseph had found, and by means of which he could see hidden treasures and many wonderful things…...
by Dan Wees | Jan 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Although [Joseph] Smith’s later accounts limited his treasure-seeking activities to his experience with Stowell in Pennsylvania, he continued similar ventures in Chenango and Broome counties [in New York State] until his arrest and court hearing in March 1826.” Dan...
