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|43||A neighbor, Lemuel Durfee. Signed an affidavit in 1833 charging Joseph with vicious habits and an immoral character | |43||A neighbor, Lemuel Durfee. Signed an affidavit in 1833 charging Joseph with vicious habits and an immoral character | ||
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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 | |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||[[Moundbuilders]]{{nw}} | ||
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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]] | |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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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
| Page | Claim | Response |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Joseph's reputation was that of a "likeable ne'er-do-well" | |
| 16 | Joseph was notorious for telling tall tales, necromantic arts and treasure digging | Joseph Smith and money digging |
| 16 | Joseph was charged with being "a disorderly person and an impostor" at his 1826 trial | |
| 17 | The Hurlbut affidavits corroborated and supplemented the court record | |
| 18 | Fifty-one of Joseph's neighbors signed affidavits accusing him of being "destitute of moral character" and "addicted to vicious habits" | |
| 18 | Joseph dreamed of an "illustrious and affluent" future | |
| 18 | Joseph "detested the plow" and despaired about the family's debts | |
| 19 | A "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters became popular in the area | |
| 19 | When Walters left the area, "his mantle fell upon" Joseph Smith | |
| 20 | William Stafford told a story about Joseph could find money using a bleeding black sheep | |
| 20 | Joseph could see "ghosts, infernal spirits" and "mountains of gold" in his seer stone | |
| 23 | Palmyra newspapers took no notice of Joseph's vision at the time it was supposed to have occurred | |
| 24 | The story of Joseph first vision evolved greatly between his 1832 and 1838 accounts | |
| 24 | Oliver Cowdery described Joseph's first vision as having occurred in 1823 | Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35 |
| 24 | Some of Joseph's close relatives confused the first vision with Moroni's visit | |
| 25 | Joseph's own family did not know of his first vision at the time that it happened | |
| 25 | Joseph's vision may have been an invention to cancel out stories of his fortune telling and money digging | |
| 26 | Joseph liked preaching because it gave him an audience, and this was as "essential to Joseph as food." | |
| 27 | Joseph stared into his crystal and saw gold in every odd-shaped hill | Joseph Smith and money digging |
| 30 | In March 1826 Joseph got into serious trouble because of his "magic arts" | Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial |
| 30 | The court pronounced Joseph "guilty" at the 1826 trial | Joseph Smith's 1826 glasslooking trial |
| 31 | Joseph's mentor was "the conjurer Walters." |
Chapter 3: Red Sons of Israel
| Page | Claim | Response |
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| 35 | Joseph's mother reported that he was "spinning theories" about the moundbuilders before he was twenty years old | |
| 35 | Between 1820 and 1827 Joseph decided to write a history of the moundbuilders | Moundbuilders [needs work] |
| 37 | Peter Ingersoll claimed that Joseph told him that no one could see the golden Bible and live | |
| 39 | The "magic" Urim and Thumminn was found with the plates | Joseph Smith and seer stones |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 40 | Martin Harris described the Urim and Thummin as "white, like polished marble, with a few grey streaks." | Joseph Smith and seer stones |
| 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 |
| 41 | Joseph warned his family that it meant instant death to look at the plates | |
| 43 | Joseph was able to translate the plates without unwrapping them by using his stone | Book of Mormon translation method |
| 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 |
| 43 | God cursed the Lamanites and all their descendents with a "red skin" | |
| 43 | A neighbor, Lemuel Durfee. Signed an affidavit in 1833 charging Joseph with vicious habits and an immoral character | |
| 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 | Moundbuilders [needs work] |
| 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 |
| 49 | Joseph Smith took the whole Western Hemisphere as the setting for the Book of Mormon | Book of Mormon geography:New World:HGT |
Further reading
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| {{To learn more box:responses to: 8: The Mormon Proposition}} | To learn more box:responses to: 8: The Mormon Proposition | edit |
| {{To learn more box:''Under the Banner of Heaven''}} | To learn more about responses to: Under the Banner of Heaven | edit |
| {{To learn more box:responses to: Robert Price}} | To learn more about responses to: Robert Price | edit |
| {{To learn more box:responses to: Ankerberg and Weldon}} | To learn more about responses to: Ankerberg and Weldon | edit |
| {{To learn more box:responses to: Ashamed of Joseph}} | To learn more about responses to: Ashamed of Joseph | edit |
| {{To learn more box:responses to: Beckwith and Moser}} | To learn more about responses to: Beckwith and Moser | edit |
| {{To learn more box:responses to: Beckwith and Parrish}} | To learn more about responses to: Beckwith and Parrish | edit |
| {{To learn more box:responses to: Benjamin Park}} | To learn more about responses to: Benjamin Park | edit |
| {{To learn more box:responses to: Bible versus Joseph Smith}} | To learn more about responses to: Bible versus Joseph Smith | edit |
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