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==Index to claims made in ''No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith''==
This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FAIRwiki.
 
===Chapter 2: Treasure in the Earth===
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| style="width:5%"|16||Joseph's reputation was that of a "likeable ne'er-do-well."
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|16||Joseph was notorious for telling tall tales, necromantic arts and treasure digging.||[[Joseph Smith and money digging]]
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|16||Joseph was charged with being "a disorderly person and an impostor" at his 1826 trial.||[[Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial]]
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|17||The Hurlbut affidavits corroborated and supplemented the court record.||[[The Hurlbut affidavits]]||Howe, ''Mormonism Unvailed''
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|18||Fifty-one of Joseph's neighbors signed affidavits accusing him of being "destitute of moral character" and "addicted to vicious habits."||[[The Hurlbut affidavits]]
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|18||Joseph dreamed of an "illustrious and affluent" future.|| ||
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|18||Joseph "detested the plow" and despaired about the family's debts.|| ||
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|19||A "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters became popular in the area. When Walters left the area, "his mantle fell upon" Joseph Smith.||[[Joseph Smith and the occult]]
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|20||William Stafford told a story about Joseph claimed that he could find money using a bleeding black sheep.||[[The Hurlbut affidavits#William Stafford|The Hurlbut affidavits&mdash;William Stafford]]||Howe, ''Mormonism Unvailed''
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|20||Joseph could see "ghosts, infernal spirits" and "mountains of gold" in his seer stone.||[[The Hurlbut affidavits]]
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|23||Palmyra newspapers took no notice of Joseph's vision at the time it was supposed to have occurred.||[[No reference to First Vision in 1830s publications?]]
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|24||The story of Joseph first vision evolved greatly between his 1832 and 1838 accounts.||[[First Vision accounts]]
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|24||Oliver Cowdery described Joseph's first vision as having occurred in 1823||[[Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35]]||''Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate'', Letter IV, Feb. 1835, p. 78.
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|24||Some of Joseph's close relatives confused the first vision with Moroni's visit.||[[Prophet's mother said First Vision was of an "angel"]]
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|25||Joseph's own family did not know of his first vision at the time that it happened.||[[Prophet's mother said First Vision was of an "angel"]]
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|25||Joseph's vision may have been an invention to cancel out stories of his fortune telling and money digging
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|26||Joseph liked preaching because it gave him an audience, and this was as "essential to Joseph as food."
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|27||Joseph stared into his crystal and saw gold in every odd-shaped hill||[[Joseph Smith and money digging]]
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|30||In March 1826 Joseph got into serious trouble because of his "magic arts"||[[Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial]]
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|30||The court pronounced Joseph "guilty" at the 1826 trial||[[Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial]]
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|31||Joseph's mentor was "the conjurer Walters."||[[Joseph Smith and the occult]]
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===Chapter 3: Red Sons of Israel===
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| style="width:5%"|35||Joseph's mother reported that he was "spinning theories" about the moundbuilders before he was twenty years old||[[Joseph Smith's "amusing recitals" of ancient American inhabitants]]
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|35||Between 1820 and 1827 Joseph decided to write a history of the moundbuilders||[[Book of Mormon and the Mound Builders]]
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|37||Peter Ingersoll claimed that Joseph told him that no one could see the golden Bible and live.||[[Viewing the gold plates would result in death?]]{{nw}}
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|39||The "magic" Urim and Thumminn was found with the plates||[[Joseph Smith and seer stones]]
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|40||The four year period during which Joseph waited to get the plates corresponded with his most intensive money-digging activities||[[Joseph Smith and money digging]]
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|40||Lucy Smith described the Urim and Thummin as "two smooth three-cornered diamonds set in glass and the glasses set in silver bows."||[[Joseph Smith and seer stones]]
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|40||Martin Harris described the Urim and Thummin as "white, like polished marble, with a few grey streaks."||[[Joseph Smith and seer stones]]
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|40||David Whitmer described the Urim and Thummin as "two small stones of a chocolate color, nearly egg shape, and perfectly smooth, but not transparent."||[[Joseph Smith and seer stones]]
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|41||Joseph warned his family that it meant instant death to look at the plates.||[[The Hurlbut affidavits#Sophia Lewis|The Hurlbut affidavits&mdash;Sophia Lewis]]
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|43||Joseph was able to translate the plates without unwrapping them by using his stone||[[Book of Mormon translation method]]
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|43||Emma said that Joseph used the Urim and Thummin for the first 116 pages and then the seer stone for the remainder of the translation||[[Joseph Smith and seer stones]]
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|43||God cursed the Lamanites and all their descendents with a "red skin."||[[Lamanite curse]] {{nw}}
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|43||A neighbor, Lemuel Durfee. Signed an affidavit in 1833 charging Joseph with vicious habits and an immoral character.||[[The Hurlbut affidavits]]
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|44||After each battle in the Book of Mormon, the dead were "heaped upon the face of the earth, and they were covered with a shallow covering" - a reference to the Indian mounds||[[Book of Mormon and the Mound Builders]]
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|46||Joseph's familiarity with the idea that the Indians descended from the Hebrews seems to have come primarily from Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews||[[Book of Mormon and View of the Hebrews]]
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|49||Joseph Smith took the whole Western Hemisphere as the setting for the Book of Mormon||[[Book of Mormon geography/New World/Hemispheric Geography Theory]]
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===Chapter 4: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder===
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| style="width:5%"|53||Joseph warned Martin Harris that God's wrath would strike him down if he examined the plates or looked at him while he was translating.||[[Viewing the gold plates would result in death?]]
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|53||Harris once tried to trick Joseph by substituting an ordinary stone for the seer stone.||[[Joseph Smith and seer stones]]
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|54||Lucy Harris stole the manuscript and "neither pleas nor blows could make her divulge its hiding place."||[[The Hurlbut affidavits#Lucy Harris|The Hurlbut affidavits&mdash;Lucy Harris]]
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|54||Joseph realized that he could not duplicate the 116 pages exactly.||[[The lost 116 pages of The Book of Lehi]]
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|55||Joseph's family was counting on sales of the Book of Mormon to prevent foreclosure on their farm
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|55||Once Joseph had translated the small plates of Nephi, he could go back to the old plates and carry on.
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|58||Joseph was careful to to modify the italicized interpolation in the King James text.
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|58||Joseph incorporated one of his father's dreams into the Book of Mormon||[[Joseph Smith, Sr.'s dream and Lehi's vision]]
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|59||Early in the writing Joseph vigorously attacked the Catholic Church as the "great and abominable church" and the "whore of all the earth"||[[Great and abominable church]]
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|60||Lucy Smith's stories about the Golden Bible had converted Oliver Cowdery
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|62||Joseph Smith's lack of education is "a favorite thesis designed to prove the authenticity" of the Book of Mormon.||[[Book of Mormon authorship theories]]
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|62-63||Joseph Smith borrowed many stories from the Bible.||[[Book of Mormon plagiarized from the Bible]]
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|63||Joseph's sentence structure in the Book of Mormon was "loose-jointed, like an earthworm hacked into segments that crawl away alive and whole."||[[Chiasmus]]
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|65||The story of the Gadianton band reflects the anti-Masonic feelings in New York at the time that the Book of Mormon was produced||[[Book of Mormon anachronisms/Gadianton masons]]
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===Chapter 5: Witnesses for God===
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| style="width:5%"|68||The Church has "exaggerated the ignorance" of Joseph Smith in order to bolster the divinity of the Book of Mormon..||[[Book of Mormon authorship theories]]
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|70||The Book of Mormon claims that Jesus was born in Jerusalem (quoting Alexander Campbell)||[[Book of Mormon anachronisms/Jerusalem vs Bethlehem|Book of Mormon anachronisms&mdash;Jerusalem vs Bethlehem]]
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|70-71||Joseph added the story of the Jaredites in order to explain how animals had come to America.||[[Story of Jaredites added to explain presence of animals in New World]]
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|72||Joseph had the Jaredites bring horses, swine, sheep, cattle, and asses, yet these animals were not found in the Americas at the time of Columbus||[[Book of Mormon anachronisms/Animals|Book of Mormon anachronisms&mdash;Animals]]
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|73||Martin Harris and Oliver Cowdery were caught in Joseph's "spell"||[[Book of Mormon witnesses/Spiritual or literal|Book of Mormon witnesses&mdash;Spiritual or literal]]
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|74||Joseph had a talent for making men see visions||[[Book of Mormon witnesses/Hypnotism|Book of Mormon witnesses&mdash;Hypnotism]]
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|77||The Three Witnesses all told different versions of their experience||[[Book of Mormon witnesses]]
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|77||The Three Witnesses were hypnotized by Joseph Smith||[[Book of Mormon witnesses/Hypnotism|Book of Mormon witnesses&mdash;Hypnotism]]
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|78||Martin Harris stated that he viewed the plates through "the eye of faith"||[["Eye of Faith"/"Spiritual Eye" statements by Martin Harris]]
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|78||Years after the event, David Whitmer embellished his story of seeing the gold plates.||[[Book of Mormon witnesses/Character#David Whitmer|Book of Mormon witnesses&mdash;Character&mdash;David Whitmer]]
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|78||The Three Witnesses never denied their vision even after the all left the Church because Joseph had "conjured up a vision they would never forget"||[[Book of Mormon witnesses/Spiritual or literal|Book of Mormon witnesses&mdash;Spiritual or literal]]
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|79-80||Joseph convinced the Eight Witnesses by showing them an empty box and claiming that they did not have sufficient faith to see them||[[Book of Mormon witnesses/Eight witnesses|Book of Mormon witnesses&mdash;Eight witnesses]]
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|80||Joseph may have built some kind of "makeshift deception" to account for those witnesses who described the size, weight and metallic texture of the plates||[[Book of Mormon anachronisms/Gold plates#Descriptions of the plates|Book of Mormon anachronisms&mdash;Gold plates&mdash;Descriptions of the plates]]
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|81||Hyrum suggested to Joseph that they attempt to sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon in order to obtain enough money to get it published||[[Did Joseph Smith attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?]]
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|82||Martin Harris sold his farm to pay for the publication of the Book of Mormon only after Joseph frightened him with the revelation found in the Book of Commandments Chapter xvi, pp. 40-41.||[[Book of Mormon witnesses/Character#Martin Harris|Book of Mormon witnesses&mdash;Character&mdash;Martin Harris]]
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===Chapter 6: The Prophet of Palmyra===
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| style="width:5%"|83||The Book of Mormon was conceived as a money-making history of the Indians.||[[Book of Mormon authorship theories]]
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|84||A story circulated that Joseph Smith boasted he would walk upon the water, and secretly built a plank bridge underneath the surface of the pond.
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|84-85||Joseph began to sincerely believe what he was teaching.
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|86||Joseph Smith performed "miracles," but was unaware that they were common occurrences||[[Joseph Smith healings and miracles]]
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|89||Joseph detested tedious and solitary field labor.
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|92||Oliver Cowdery demanded that Joseph amend some of his own revelations.||[[Doctrine and Covenants textual changes]]
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|92||Oliver Cowdery secretly encouraged Hiram Page to receive revelations through his seer stone.
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|96||Joseph experimented with the idea of "revealing" a lost books of the Bible.||[[Joseph Smith Translation as a restoration of the original Bible text]]
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===Chapter 7: The Perfect Society and the Promised Land===
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| style="width:5%"|101||Joseph promised Lyman E. Johnson that he would see the Savior come and stand upon the Earth
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|101-102||William Smith and Orson Hyde were told that they would stand on earth until Christ comes
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|102||Joseph suggested that the Second Coming would occur within fifty-six years.||[[Joseph Smith prophesied the Second Coming to be in 1890]]
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|103||Joseph began "translating" the New Testament at Sidney Rigdon's suggestion
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|108||The United Order was Sidney Rigdon's idea
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|111||Ezra Booth claimed that Joseph promised that "not three days should pass away before some should see the Saviour face to face"
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|111||Joseph said that the lost ten tribes were living in a land near the North Pole
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|112||Joseph attempted to perform miracles and failed during a conference in Kirtland, Ohio
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|113||Stories claimed that miracles could not be performed in Ohio because it was not "consecrated ground"
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===Chapter 8: Temple Builder===
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| style="width:5%"|116||Joseph inserted into Genesis a prophecy of his own coming
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|117||Joseph elaborated on Isaiah's prophecy regarding the learned man and the sealed book to match details of Martin Harris' visit to Charles Anthon
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|117||Joseph modified Isaiah's prophecy to include references to the Book of Mormon witnesses and return of the gold plates to the Lord
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|118||Joseph's description of the three degrees of glory contrasted Book of Mormon descriptions of a "lake of fire and brimstone"
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|120||The Missouri Mormons never forgave Joseph for returning to Ohio
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|124||The "Civil War" prophecy was abandoned and excluded from early collections of Joseph's revelations because they thought it had failed.||[[Joseph Smith prophesies]]
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|126||It was noted that "Joseph could build more rods of good fence in one day than most men could in two," and that his "yard was clean and orderly"
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|127||Joseph couldn't initially called the Kirtland Temple a "temple," since there was already land dedicated for a temple in Missouri
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===Chapter 9: Expulsion from Eden===
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| style="width:5%"|141||It was easy for Joseph to revise his revelation on the United Order since most copies of the Book of Commandments had been burned.
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|141||Joseph wanted to "destroy the notion" that the United Order had been similar to communism.
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===Chapter 10: The Army of the Lord===
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| style="width:5%"|143||Under Hurlbut's "excited prodding," neighbors of Solomon Spalding recalled that the Spalding manuscript that matched "an astonishing number of details" from the Book of Mormon twenty years after they had heard the manuscript read aloud.||[[Book of Mormon and Spaulding manuscript]]
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|144||The Spalding manuscript bore no resemblance to the Book of Mormon.||[[Book of Mormon and Spaulding manuscript]]
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|144||Martin Harris was brought to trial before the High Council because he claimed the Joseph Smith had "drunk too much liquor" while translating the Book of Mormon.
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|145||Hurlbut's affidavits were published by E.D. Howe in Mormonism Unvailed.||[[The Hurlbut affidavits]]
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|145||Brigham Young stated, before he even met Joseph Smith, that he would follow Joseph even if he were to get "drunk every day of his life, sleep with his neighbor's wife every night," and run horses and gamble.|| ||[[Use of sources/Journal of Discourses#4:77-8|''Journal of Discourses'' 4:77-8]].
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|147-148||It was Sidney Rigdon's suggestion to change the name of the Church from the Church of Christ to the Church of Latter-day Saints in order to avoid the names "Mormon" and "Mormonite".
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|149||Joseph found a skeleton of a Lamanite warrior named "Zelf"||[[Zelph]]
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===Chapter 11: Patronage and Punishment===
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| style="width:5%"|159||Zion's Camp was a "major failure" for Joseph Smith.
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|159||Men and women had died in Missouri Joseph Smith's name.
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|159||Joseph decided that he could no longer give out "incidental" revelations after the Missouri trials.
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|162||The Kirtland High Council complained that the Apostles had too much power.
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|162||Henry Green was cut off from the church simply because of a remark made that Joseph was "extorting" the cost of a book.
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|164||Apostle William Smith called his brother Joseph a "tyrant" and attempted to beat him.
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|165||Joseph was "vain" regarding his "wrestling prowess."
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|166||The Word of Wisdom was not given by "commandment or constraint" because Joseph was "too fond of earthly pleasures."||[[Word of Wisdom]]
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|167||Joseph did not take the Word of Wisdom seriously.||[[Word of Wisdom]]
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|167||Joseph replaced wine with water in the Sacrament because Sidney Rigdon forced a vote for total abstinence through the Church.
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===Chapter 12: Master of Languages===
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| style="width:5%"|170||Joseph did not originally intend to translate the papri "by inspiration as in the past," and instead attempted to formulate an Egyptian alphabet and grammer.||[[Kirtland Egyptian Papers]]
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|171||Joseph picked up the idea that there were plural gods when he learned in Hebrew class that Elohim was plural.
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|171||Joseph developed the concept in the Book of Abraham that the earth was organized out of existing matter from Thomas Dick's Philosophy of a Future State.||[[Was Joseph Smith's theology influenced by the writings of Thomas Dick?]]
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|171||Joseph developed the idea that matter was "eternal and indestructible" from Thomas Dick's work.||[[Was Joseph Smith's theology influenced by the writings of Thomas Dick?]]
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|172||Joseph's concept of Kolob being "near the throne of God" and its control of the reckoning of time came from Thomas Dick.||[[Was Joseph Smith's theology influenced by the writings of Thomas Dick?]]
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|173||Joseph wrote the Book of Abraham in order to justify denying the priesthood to Blacks.||[[Blacks and the priesthood/Origin of the priesthood ban|Blacks and the priesthood&mdash;Origin of the priesthood ban]]
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|173||Joseph criticized the abolitionist movement.
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|174||Joseph taught that "one third of the spirits had been neutral" in Heaven.
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|174||Joseph taught that his family was directly descended from Ephraim.
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|175||The Book of Abraham facsimiles are ordinary funeral documents.||[[Book of Abraham papyri]]
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|179||It was reported that some of the men were drunk during the dedication of the Kirtland Temple.||[[Reports of Drunken Behavior at the Kirtland Temple Dedication]]
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===Chapter 13: My Kingdom is of this World===
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| style="width:5%"|181||Joseph Smith was rumored to have "seduced" Fannie Alger.||[[Joseph Smith's marriages to young women#Fanny Alger|Joseph Smith's marriages to young women&mdash;Fanny Alger]]
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|181||It was rumored that Fannie Alger was driven out of the house by Emma.||[[Joseph Smith's marriages to young women#Fanny Alger|Joseph Smith's marriages to young women&mdash;Fanny Alger]]
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|181||Joseph and Fannie were "found together."||[[Joseph Smith's marriages to young women#Fanny Alger|Joseph Smith's marriages to young women&mdash;Fanny Alger]]
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|182||Joseph accused Oliver Cowdery of "perpetuating the scandal."
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|182||Oliver was excommunicated for "insinuating that the prophet had been guilty of adultery."
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|182||Fannie Alger did not admit to being the Prophet's plural wife||[[Joseph Smith's marriages to young women#Fanny Alger|Joseph Smith's marriages to young women&mdash;Fanny Alger]]
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|183||Martin Harris was brought to trial for adultery "as early as 1832."
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|182||Joseph told Ezra Booth to "take a wife from among the Lamanites."||[[Native Americans to become "white and delightsome" through polygamous marriage?]]||
*See [[The Hurlbut affidavits#Ezra Booth|The Hurlbut affidavits&mdash;Ezra Booth]]
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|183||Joseph performed marriages even though it was against Ohio law.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|185||Oliver Cowdery wrote a formal statement that the Church denied polygamy in August 1835||[[1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy]]
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|187||Joseph realized "that for a prophet it is easier to change marriage laws than to contravene them."||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]||
*Author's opinion
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|187||The Mormons believe that when they become "sufficiently purified" that the treasures in the earth would be "poured into their lap."||[[The Hurlbut affidavits#Ezra Booth|The Hurlbut affidavits&mdash;Ezra Booth]]
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|189||Isaac McWithy was brought to trial before the High Council because he would not sell his farm to Joseph Smith.
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|192||Joseph's trip to Salem in August 1836 with Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon and Hyrum was to look for buried gold beneath a house.
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===Chapter 14: Disaster in Kirtland===
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| style="width:5%"|195||The Kirtland Safety Society was said to have been established by "a revelation from God."||[[Kirtland Safety Society]]
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|197||The assets backing the Kirtland Safety Society's notes were actually boxes filled with "sand, lead, old iron, stone and combustibles."||[[Kirtland Safety Society]]
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|197||Warren Parrish claimed that the Kirtland "bank" assets were less than Joseph claimed.||[[Kirtland Safety Society]]
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|198||The Kirtland Safety Society "bank" was operating illegally.||[[Kirtland Safety Society]]
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|198||Warren Parrish could not have taken $25,000 because the bank didn't have that much.||[[Kirtland Safety Society]]
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|199||Joseph "prophesied" that the bank notes would be "as good as gold."
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|199||Brigham Young exchanged his Kirtland bank notes for gold years later in Salt Lake City.
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|205||The Three Witnesses Whitmer, Harris and Cowdery pledged loyalty to a young girl who claimed to be able to see the future in a black stone.
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===Chapter 15: The Valley of God===
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|208||Oliver Cowdery accused Joseph of trying to "set up a kind of petty government, controlled and dictated by ecclesiastical influence…"|| ||History of the Church 3:18n
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|211||Joseph proclaimed that an altar found in Missouri was where Adam offered sacrifices.||[[Garden of Eden in Missouri?#Adam-ondi-Ahman|Garden of Eden in Missouri?&mdash;Adam-ondi-Ahman]]
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|211||Joseph said that Adam shall come to visit his people at Adam-ondi-Ahman.||[[Garden of Eden in Missouri?#Adam-ondi-Ahman|Garden of Eden in Missouri?&mdash;Adam-ondi-Ahman]]
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|211||The Saints believed that Jackson County was the site of the Garden of Eden.||[[Garden of Eden in Missouri?]]
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|211||Far West was the spot where Cain killed Abel.|| ||History of the Church 3:35; D&C 117:8; John Corrill: Brief History of the Church, p. 28.
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|212||Joseph justified slavery.
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|213||Sidney Ridgon supported Sampson Avard's formation of a "secret" band.||[[Danites]]{{nw}}
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|214||Joseph and Sidney "were careful not to be associated" with the Danites.||[[Danites]]{{nw}}
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|214||The Danites were a secret society with oaths, passwords and secret signs.||[[Danites]]{{nw}}||Correspondence, Orders, etc. in relation to the disturbances with the Mormons;…
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|215||Joseph "made a confused and damaging admission of his own relationship to the Danite organization" before his death.||[[Danites]]{{nw}}||Minutes of a Nauvoo City Council Meeting, Jan. 3, 1844, History of the Church 6:165.
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|215||Joseph formally sanctioned Sampson Avard and the Danites.||[[Danites]]{{nw}}||Correspondence, Orders, etc. in relation to the disturbances with the Mormons;…
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|217||Sidney Rigdon wanted to Olivery Cowdery and David Whitmer cut off from the church in order to banish his rivals.
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|218||Sidney Rigdon's Salt Sermon threatened the dissenters in the Church.
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|219||The dissenters were ordered to leave Far West.
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|223||Sidney Rigdon's 4th of July sermon alluded to a "war of extermination" with the mob.
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===Chapter 16: The Alcoran or the Sword===
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|230-231||Joseph Smith claimed to be "a second Mohammed" and that it would eventually be "Joseph Smith or the Sword!"|| ||History of the Church 3;167; 3:162; Correspondence, Orders, etc. pp. 57-9, 97-129; Reed Peck manuscript p. 80.
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|230||Joseph hinted that stealing the gentiles' supplies was acceptable.|| ||History of the Church 3;167; 3:162; Correspondence, Orders, etc. pp. 57-9, 97-129; Reed Peck manuscript p. 80.
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|231||David Patten's men looted and set fire to a store and some cabins in Gallatin.|| ||History of the Church 3;167; 3:162; Correspondence, Orders, etc. pp. 57-9, 97-129; Reed Peck manuscript p. 80.
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|232n||Joseph "virtually admitted" that the Mormons were responsible for the looting and burning.|| ||History of the Church 3:316, 378; John Whitmer, "History of the Church"
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|232||Sidney Rigdon threatened anyone who was planning to leave Far West.|| ||Correspondence, Orders, etc. pp. 120-5, 134-6, 143.
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|234||Orson Hyde and Thomas B. Marsh admitted that the Mormons were "burning and pillaging."|| ||Correspondence, Orders, etc. pp. 57-62, 76
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===Chapter 17: Ordeal in Liberty Jail===
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|246||William Smith stated regarding his brother Joseph that he "would have hung him years ago!"|| ||History of the church 3:226-33
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|251-252||While in Liberty Jail, Joseph was worried that Sidney Rigdon would revive the United Order and the Danites.||[[Danites]]{{nw}} ||History of the church 3:295, 301, 303
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|252||Lucinda Morgan Harris claimed to have been "the prophet's mistress" at one time.
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===Chapter 18: Nauvoo===
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|257||Over the years, the stories of Josephs healings of the sick in Nauvoo multiplied.
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|269||Nauvoo had a brothel near the temple.|| ||Times and Seasons 2:599 (Aug. 2, 1841); Wasp 1:26 (Oct. 15, 1842)
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|272||Joseph's bodyguards in Nauvoo were the remnants of the Danite band.||[[Danites]]{{nw}}
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===Chapter 19: Mysteries of the Kingdom===
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|275||When recounting his history, Joseph's "[d]ream images came easily to him and with such intense color and luxuriant detail that he matter of accuracy or chronology was of no importance."
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|275||Everything in Joseph's past was reinterpreted to "enhance the glory of the present."
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|276||The Book of Mormon was a "secret source of worry" to Joseph, and in response he published extracts from "View of the Hebrews," "Wonders of Nature," and other books that supported the Book of Mormon's story.||[[Book of Mormon plagiarism accusations]]
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|276||Joseph said regarding the Book of Mormon manuscript that he had "had trouble enough with this thing."|| ||The Return 2:315 (Aug. 1890)
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|276||Joseph Smith claimed that the word "Mormon" meant "more good."|| ||Times and Seasons 4:194 (May 15, 1843)
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|279||Much of the endowment ritual was borrowed from the Freemasons.||[[Temple endowment and Freemasonry]]
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|280||Joseph rose to the "sublime degree" of Masonry within one day.||[[Temple endowment and Freemasonry]]
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===Chapter 20: In the Quiver of the Almighty===
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|289||Joseph permitted the construction of a brewery in Nauvoo and allowed it to be advertised.||[[Word of Wisdom]]{{nw}}
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|289||Joseph gave some of the brethren money to purchase additional whiskey in contradiction to the Word of Wisdom.||[[Word of Wisdom]]{{nw}}||Millenniall star 21:283.
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|289||Joseph was presented with a bottle of wine and he "drank it with relish."||[[Word of Wisdom]]{{nw}}||History of the Church  5:380
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|289||Joseph told Robert Thompson that he should "get drunk and have a good spree" or that he would die.||[[Word of Wisdom]]{{nw}} ||Diary of Oliver Huntington 3:166
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|290||Joseph claimed to be able to translate a Greek psalter.||[[Joseph Smith as a translator]]{{nw}}
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|291||Joseph claimed that he translated a portion of the Kinderhook plates.||[[Kinderhook Plates]]
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===Chapter 21: If a Man Entice a Maid===
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|298||The doctrine of polygamy was secretly taught but publicly denied.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|299||Joseph is claimed to have published a pamplet supporting plural marriage in 1842, but then later denounced it.|| ||Udney Hay Jacob, An Israelite, and a shepherd of Israel, An Extract froma Manuscript entitled The Peacemaker, or the Doctrines of the Millennium, being a treatise on religion and jurisprudence, or a new system of religion and politicks (Nauvoo, Illinois, 1842)
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|299||Paul taught that there were be no marriage in heaven, but Joseph taught that this would not apply to the Saints.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|300||Joseph taught that more wives in heaven meant more blessings in heaven.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|302||Joseph was sealed to women who were already married.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|306||Martha Brotherton claimed that Brigham Young wanted her as a plural wife.||[[Brigham Young and polygamy]] ||St. Louis Bulletin, July 15, 1842, p. 2; Affidavits and Certificates Disproving the Statements and Affidavits Contained in John C. Bennett's Letters, August 31, 1842.
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===Chapter 22: The Bennett Explosion===
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|310||Joseph wrote a letter to Nancy Rigdon in an attempt to persuade her to become his plural wife.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]] ||John C. Bennett, History of the Saints, pp. 243-5.
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|312||John C. Bennett claimed that Joseph threatened to deliver him to the Danites if he did not sign an affidavit stating that Joseph had not permitted him to participate in "illicit intercourse."|| ||Letter from Bennett to the Sangamo Journal, July 2, 1842, published July 15, 1842; History of the Church 5:13.
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|314||Bennett claimed that the Danites were present in Nauvoo.||[[Danites]]{{nw}}
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|316||Joseph proposed plural marriage to Sarah Pratt while her husband Orson was away on a mission.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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===Chapter 23: Into Hiding===
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|323||There was a rumor that Joseph had predicted that Governor's Boggs and Carlin would meet a violent death.|| ||
*History of the Church 5:50.
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|328||Joseph threatened to have houses burned if tavern owners in the village of Paris did not let them stay for the night.|| ||
*History of the Church 5:211.
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|331||Joseph was accused of sending Porter Rockwell to kill Lillburn Boggs.
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|332-333||Joseph had a bar installed in the Mansion House but removed it at Emma's insistence?|| ||
*"Memoirs of President Joseph Smith," Saints Herald, Jan. 22, 1935, p. 110.
*History of the Church 6:111, 429"
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===Chapter 24: The Wives of the Prophet===
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|334||The number of women sealed to Joseph Smith may have exceeded fifty.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|336||At least twelve of the women sealed to Joseph were already married with living husbands.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|338||"Most" of Joseph wives were married to him for time and eternity.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|340||Emma  selected the Partridge sisters and the Lawrence sisters are plural wives for Joseph.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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|342||Emma burned the revelation on plural marriage.
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|343||Joseph said that he would have Emma as his wife in the hereafter even if he had to "go to hell" for her.|| ||
*B. Young, Journal of Discourses 17:159
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|345||There is "some evidence that Fannie Alger bore Joseph a child in Kirtland."||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages#Alger|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages&mdash;Alger]]
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|345||Prescindia Huntington Buell's son Oliver may have been Joseph's son.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages#Buell|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages&mdash;Buell]]
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|345||"Legend" says that John Reed Hancock may have been Joseph's son.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages#Hancock|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages&mdash;Hancock]]
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|345||The son of Mary Rollins Lightner "may as easily have been the prophet's son as that of Adam Lightner."||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages#Lightner|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages&mdash;Lightner]]
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|345||Mrs. Orson Hyde's sons Orson and Frank "could have been Joseph's sons."||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages#Hyde|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages&mdash;Hyde]]
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|345||Mrs. Parley P. Pratt's son Moroni "might also be added to this list."||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages#Pratt|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages&mdash;Pratt]]
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|345-346||"According to tradition," Emma beat Eliza Snow with a broomstick and caused her to fall down the stairs, resulting in a miscarrage.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages#Snow|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages&mdash;Snow]]||
*None specified.
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|346||"It is astonishing that evidence of other children than these has never come to light."||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages]]
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|346||Jedediah Grant "excused" Joseph's marriages to married women by stating that it was a way to "try the people of God to see what was in them."|| ||
*Journal of Discourses 2:14
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|346||Perhaps Joseph "learned some primitive method of birth control" or took advantage of items such as "Portuguese Female Pills" to produce miscarriage.||[[Joseph Smith and polygamy/Children of polygamous marriages|Joseph Smith and polygamy&mdash;Children of polygamous marriages]]||
*Author's conjecture&mdash;Brodie can't adequately explain why a large number of children were not produced from Joseph's other "marriages."
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===Chapter 25: Candidate for President===
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|353||Hyrum Smith claimed to receive a revelation that the Democratic candidate was to receive the Mormon vote.
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|354||Joseph said that God was his "right hand man."|| ||
*''History of the Church'' 6:71-78
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|355-356||Joseph "had become a law unto himself" and totally disregarded Illinois state law.
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|356||A council of fifty "princes" was formed to be the "highest court on earth."||[[The Council of Fifty]]
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|356||The Council of Fifty ordained and crowned Joseph as "King of the Kingdom of God." ||[[The Council of Fifty]]||
*William Marks, ''Zion's Harbinger and Baneemy's Organ'', Vol. 3 (July 1853) p. 52.
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|364||Joseph's presidential candidacy included a proposal to free the slaves, "in a complete reversal of his earlier stand."
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|365||The Book of Abraham contained "anti-Negro sentiments."
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|365||The Negro is denied a place in the Mormon priesthood (as of 1971 printing).||[[Blacks and the priesthood]]
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===Chapter 26: Prelude to Destruction===
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|368||Joseph threatened to excommunicate weathy converts who came to Nauvoo and purchased land without his consent.|| ||
*History of the Church 5:272-273
*History of the Church 6:164-165
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|368||William Law thought that Joseph was diverting funds donated for the Nauvoo House to purchasing land to re-sell to converts.
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|370||Joseph said that Hell was "an agreeable place."|| ||
*''Nauvoo Expositor'', June 7, 1844
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|370||Joseph threatened to "blow up the steamboats that did not pay" wharfage fees.|| ||
*''History of the Church'' 6:234, 238
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|373||All references to plural marriage in Joseph's journals were disguised.|| ||
*''History of the Church'' 6:409
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|374||Joseph boasted that he was the only one who had kept a while church together since the days of Adam and that "no man ever did such a work as I."||[[Did Joseph Smith 'boast' of keeping the Church intact]]||
*''History of the Church'' 6:408-412
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|376||Joseph admitted to William Marks that he had been "deceived" by the "spiritual wife-system," and that he would "rid the church" of the practice.|| ||
*William Marks, ''Zion's Harbinger and Baneemy's Organ'' Vol. 3 (July 1853), pp. 52-53.
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|377||Joseph claimed that the revelation on polygamy concerned "former days, and had no reference to the present time." || ||
*''Nauvoo Neighbor'', June 19, 1844, Nauvoo City Council minutes; History of the Church 6:441
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|377||The destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor was a violation of the Constitution.||[[Nauvoo Expositor]]
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===Chapter 27: Carthage===
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|381||Joseph blessed his son Joseph III to be his successor as president of the Church.||[[Succession in the Presidency of the Church]]||
*Zion's Ensign, Vol. 12, No. 29, p. 5
*Temple Lot Case, pp. 28, 180.
*Lyman Wight, letter to the Northern Islander, Reprinted in Saints Advocate, vol 7 (September 1884).
*John D. Lee, Mormonism Unveiled, p. 155.
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|392||Joseph sent for some wine while in Carthage Jail and "all except Hyrum sipped a little."|| ||
*History of the Church 7:101
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|394||Joseph may have given the Masonic signal of distress as he leaped to the window. || ||
*Zina Huntington Jacobs, Latter Day Saints Biographical Encyclopaedia, Vol. 1, p. 698.
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