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A work by author: Fawn Brodie

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. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.

Chapter 2: Treasure in the Earth

Page Claim Response Use of sources

16

 Joseph was notorious for telling tall tales, necromantic arts and treasure digging.
  • "Mormonism", New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, New York, 1883, Vol. II, p. 1576.
  • Obadiah Dogberry (pseudonym for Abner Cole), Palmyra Reflector, Jan. 6 - March 19, 1831.
  • Abner Cole, "The Book of Pukei," Palmyra Reflector June - July 1830.

16

 Joseph was charged with being "a disorderly person and an impostor" at his 1826 trial.
  • "Mormonism", New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, New York, 1883, Vol. II, p. 1576.

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.
  • Author's speculation.

18

 Joseph "detested the plow" and despaired about the family's debts.
  • Author's speculation.

19

 A "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters became popular in the area. When Walters left the area, "his mantle fell upon" Joseph Smith.
  • Author's conjecture.

20

 William Stafford told a story about Joseph claimed that he 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.
  • Obediah Dogberry (Abner Cole), Palmyra Reflector, Feb. 1, 1831.

24

 The story of Joseph first vision evolved greatly between his 1832 and 1838 accounts.
  • Times and Seasons, March 15, 1842
  • Dean D. Jessee's (Dean C. Jessee) "Early Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision," Brigham Young University Studies, Vol. IX, 1969, pp. 275-294.

24

 Oliver Cowdery described Joseph's first vision as having occurred in 1823
  • Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, Letter IV, Feb. 1835, p. 78.

24

 Some of Joseph's close relatives confused the first vision with Moroni's visit.
  • Lucy Smith to Solomon Mack, January 6, 1831 in Ben E. Rich: Scrapbook of Mormon Literature, Vol. I, p. 543.

25

 Joseph's own family did not know of his first vision at the time that it happened.
  • Source not provided.

25

 Joseph's vision may have been an invention to cancel out stories of his fortune telling and money digging
  • Author's speculation.

26

 Joseph liked preaching because it gave him an audience, and this was as "essential to Joseph as food."
  • Author's conjecture.

27

 Joseph stared into his crystal and saw gold in every odd-shaped hill
  • Author's speculation.

30

 In March 1826 Joseph got into serious trouble because of his "magic arts"
  • "Mormonism", New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, New York, 1883, Vol. II, p. 1576.

30

 The court pronounced Joseph "guilty" at the 1826 trial
  • "Mormonism", New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, New York, 1883, Vol. II, p. 1576.

31

 Joseph's mentor was "the conjurer Walters."
  • Author's conjecture.

Chapter 3: Red Sons of Israel

Page Claim Response Use of sources

35

 Joseph's mother reported that he was "spinning theories" about the moundbuilders before he was twenty years old
  • Lucy Smith, Biographical Sketches, p. 85.

35

 Between 1820 and 1827 Joseph decided to write a history of the moundbuilders
  • Author's conjecture.

37

 Peter Ingersoll claimed that Joseph told him that no one could see the golden Bible and live.

39

 The "magic" Urim and Thummim was found with the plates
  • Author's opinion.

40

 The four year period during which Joseph waited to get the plates corresponded with his most intensive money-digging activities
  • No source provided to support the author's allegation of "intensive" money-digging activity.

40

 Lucy Smith described the Urim and Thummim as "two smooth three-cornered diamonds set in glass and the glasses set in silver bows."
  • Lucy Smith to Solomon Mack, 1831

40

 Martin Harris described the Urim and Thummim as "white, like polished marble, with a few grey streaks."
  • Tiffany's Monthly, 1859, p. 166.

40

 David Whitmer described the Urim and Thummim as "two small stones of a chocolate color, nearly egg shape, and perfectly smooth, but not transparent."
  • Kansas City Journal, June 5, 1881.

41

 Joseph warned his family that it meant instant death to look at the plates.
  • No source provided.

43

 Joseph was able to translate the plates without unwrapping them by using his stone
  • The author attributes this to Emma Smith, but does not specify the source.
  • Likely source is the interview of Emma Smith by her son Joseph Smith III.
  • Book of Mormon translation method
  • No source specified.

43

 Emma said that Joseph used the Urim and Thummim for the first 116 pages and then the seer stone for the remainder of the translation
  • The author attributes this to Emma Smith, but does not specify the source.
  • Likely source is the interview of Emma Smith by her son Joseph Smith III.
  • Joseph Smith and seer stones
  • No source provided.

43

 God cursed the Lamanites and all their descendents with a "red skin."
  • No source provided.

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
  • Book of Mormon (1830), pp. 358, 363, 267.
  • O. Turner, Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase, p. 38.
  • Palmyra Register, January 28, 1818.

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
  • Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews (1825), p. 184.

49

 Joseph Smith took the whole Western Hemisphere as the setting for the Book of Mormon
  • Author's opinion. No source provided.

Chapter 4: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder

Page Claim Response Use of sources

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.
  • No source provided.

53

 Harris once tried to trick Joseph by substituting an ordinary stone for the seer stone.
  • Summary of Martin Harris' sermon in Salt Lake City, September 4, 1870, Historical Record, Vol. VI, p. 216.

54

 Lucy Harris stole the manuscript and "neither pleas nor blows could make her divulge its hiding place."
  • Lucy states in the Hurlbut affidavits that her husband "has whipped, kicked, and turned me out of the house." Despite the fact that Lucy Harris makes no mention of the lost 116 pages of manuscript from the Book of Mormon, Fawn Brodie actually concludes that Harris beat his wife in order to get her to divulge what she had done with the lost 116 pages of manuscript.
  • The Hurlbut affidavits—Lucy Harris
  • Author's speculation.

54

 Joseph realized that he could not duplicate the 116 pages exactly.
  • Author's conjecture.

55

 Joseph's family was counting on sales of the Book of Mormon to prevent foreclosure on their farm.
  •  Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.: the author presents no evidence for this claim.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

55

 Once Joseph had translated the small plates of Nephi, he could go back to the old plates and carry on.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

58

 The Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon were "chiefly those chapters from Isaiah mentioned in Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews."
  • No source provided.

58

 Joseph was careful to modify primarily the italicized interpolation in the King James text.
  • Author's conjecture.

58

 Joseph incorporated one of his father's dreams into the Book of Mormon
  • Lucy Smith, Biographical Sketches, pp. 58-9.

59

 Early in the writing Joseph vigorously attacked the Catholic Church as the "great and abominable church" and the "whore of all the earth"
  • Source not provided.

62

 Joseph Smith's lack of education is "a favorite thesis designed to prove the authenticity" of the Book of Mormon.
  • Author's opinion.

62-63

 Joseph Smith borrowed many stories from the Bible.
  • Author's opinion.

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."
  • Author's opinion.

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.
  • No source given.
  • Author's conjecture.

Chapter 5: Witnesses for God

Page Claim Response Author's sources

69

 The Church has "exaggerated the ignorance" of Joseph Smith in order to bolster the divinity of the Book of Mormon.
  • Author's opinion. No source provided.

70

 The Book of Mormon claims that Jesus was born in Jerusalem (quoting Alexander Campbell)
  • Millennial Harbinger, Vol. II, Feb. 1831, p. 85.

70-71

 Joseph added the story of the Jaredites in order to explain how animals had come to America.
  • Author's opinion.

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.
  • The author adds in a footnote that Mormons "point to discoveries of small prehistoric horses in the New World as evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon, and ignore the fact that these animals became extinct long before the supposed Jaredite migration."

73

 Martin Harris and Oliver Cowdery were caught in Joseph's "spell."
  • Author's conjecture.

74

 Joseph had a talent for making men see visions.
  •  Prejudicial or loaded language
  •  Absurd claim
  • According to the author, even Joseph didn't know that he had this ability until after the Book of Mormon was completed.
  • Book of Mormon witnesses—Hypnotism
  • Author's opinion.

77

 The Three Witnesses all told different versions of their experience.
  • Palmyra Reflector, March 19, 1831.
  • History of the Church, Vol. I, pp. 54-5.

77

 The Three Witnesses were hypnotized by Joseph Smith.
  •  Absurd claim: According to the author, Joseph didn't realize that he had this ability either (it was supposedly a "unconscious but positive talent."
  • Book of Mormon witnesses—Hypnotism
  • Author's opinion.

78

 Martin Harris stated that he viewed the plates through "the eye of faith."
  • Rev. John A. Clark, Gleanings by the Way, (Philadelphia: W.J. and J.K. Simon; New York: Robert Carter, 1842), 256-7 off-site

78

 Years after the event, David Whitmer embellished his story of seeing the gold plates.
  • Palmyra Reflector, March 19, 1831.
  • David Whitmer's interview with Orson Pratt, Millennial Star, Vol. XL, pp. 771-2.

78

 The Three Witnesses never denied their vision even after they all left the Church because Joseph had "conjured up a vision they would never forget."
  • No source provided.

79

 The first edition of the Book of Mormon said that Joseph was "Author and proprietor," which in later editions was changed to "Translator."
  •  The author's claim is false: Actually, the 1830 edition also states that Joseph was the translator of the record. Copyright requirements necessitated that he be labeled the author.
  • Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon copyright

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.
  • Thomas Ford, History of Illinois, Chicago, 1854, p. 257.

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.
  • William Smith, Saints' Herald, Vol. XXXI, p. 644.
  • Complete speculation

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. Joseph "looked into the Urim and Thummim and received a revelation" directing them to go to Toronto.
  • Oliver Cowdery, Defense in a Rehearsal of My Grounds for Separating Myself from the Latter-Day Saints.
  • David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ, p. 31.

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 Commandments Chapter xvi, pp. 40-41

Chapter 6: The Prophet of Palmyra

Page Claim Response Author's sources

83

 The Book of Mormon was conceived as a money-making history of the Indians.
  • Author's opinion.

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.
  •  Absurd claim: the author is now relying on unsubstantiated gossip.
  •  Misrepresentation of source: the articles cited say nothing about Joseph; they are being cited to demonstrate the absurd slanders and ridicule that "Mormon elders" are subject to by their religious critics.

84-85

 Joseph began to sincerely believe what he was teaching.
  • Author's opinion.

86

 Joseph Smith performed "miracles," but was unaware that they were common occurrences.
  • No source provided.

89

 Joseph detested tedious and solitary field labor.
  • Author's opinion.

92

 Oliver Cowdery demanded that Joseph amend some of his own revelations.

92

 Oliver Cowdery secretly encouraged Hiram Page to receive revelations through his seer stone.
  • No source provided.

96

 Joseph experimented with the idea of "revealing" lost books of the Bible.

Chapter 7: The Perfect Society and the Promised Land

Page Claim Response Use of sources

101-102

 Joseph promised Lyman E. Johnson that he would see the Savior come and stand upon the Earth. William Smith and Orson Hyde were told that they would stand on earth until Christ comes.
  • Millennial Star, Vol. XV, pp. 206-7.
  • History of the Church, Vol. II, pp. 189-91.

102

 Joseph suggested that the Second Coming would occur within fifty-six years.
  • History of the Church, Vol. II, p. 182.

103

 Joseph began "translating" the New Testament at Sidney Rigdon's suggestion.
  •  Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.
  • No sources provided.

108

 The United Order was Sidney Rigdon's idea.
  •  Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.
  • No sources provided.

111

 Ezra Booth claimed that Joseph promised that "not three days should pass away before some should see the Saviour face to face."

111

 Joseph said that the lost ten tribes were living in a land near the North Pole.
  • History of the Church, Vol. I, p. 176n.
  • John Whitmer, History of the Church, Chapter vii.

112

 Joseph attempted to perform miracles and failed during a conference in Kirtland, Ohio.
  •  Misrepresentation of source: nothing in chapter viii of Whitmer's History discusses Joseph failing to perform miracles.
  •  Misrepresentation of source: nothing in Scraps of Biography p. 70 talks about a failed miracle. Knight says only, "Conference convened. The Elders, from various parts of the country where they had been laboring, came in, and the power of the Lord was displayed in our midst. A number were ordained to the Melchizedek Priesthood, and the hearts of the Saints rejoiced in the rich blessings bestowed upon them."
  • John Whitmer, History of the Church, Chapter viii
  • Newel Knight's journal, published in Scraps of Biography, p. 70.

113

 Stories claimed that miracles could not be performed in Ohio because it was not "consecrated ground."
  • Source not provided.

Chapter 8: Temple Builder

Page Claim Response Author's sources

116

 Joseph inserted into Genesis a prophecy of his own coming.
  • George B. Arbaugh, Revelation in Mormonism, 1932, pp. 75-85.

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.
  • George B. Arbaugh, Revelation in Mormonism, 1932, pp. 75-85.

117

 Joseph modified Isaiah's prophecy to include references to the Book of Mormon witnesses and return of the gold plates to the Lord.
  • George B. Arbaugh, Revelation in Mormonism, 1932, pp. 75-85.

118

 Joseph's description of the three degrees of glory contrasted Book of Mormon descriptions of a "lake of fire and brimstone."
  • Author's opinion.

120

 The Missouri Mormons never forgave Joseph for returning to Ohio.
  •  Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.
  • No sources provided. Author's conjecture.

124

 The "Civil War" prophecy was abandoned and excluded from early collections of Joseph's revelations because they thought it had failed.
  • Source not provided

127

 Joseph couldn't initially called the Kirtland Temple a "temple," since there was already land dedicated for a temple in Missouri.
  • Author's opinion.

Chapter 9: Expulsion from Eden

Page Claim Response Author's sources

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.
  • Author's opinion

141

 Joseph wanted to "destroy the notion" that the United Order had been similar to communism.
  •  Absurd claim: The Communist Manifesto was not written until 1848. Joseph could hardly be worried about a philosophical movement that didn't exist.
  • Communism and the United Order
  • No sources provided.

Chapter 10: The Army of the Lord

Page Claim Response Author's sources

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.
  • Author's opinion

144

 The Spalding manuscript bore no resemblance to the Book of Mormon.
  • This is true. Brodie marked the end of the Spaulding theory that had dominated anti-Mormon efforts for most of the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century. Ironically, with the failure of the View of the Hebrews theory, the Spaulding theory is enjoying a resurgence, though with a postulated "second" manuscript.
  • Book of Mormon and Spaulding manuscript
  • Spalding manuscript published by the Reorganized Church in 1885 under the title The Manuscript Found, or the Manuscript Story of the late Rev. Solomon Spaulding.

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.
  • The cited Times and Seasons" entry "HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH" states:

"The council proceeded to investigate certain charges presented by Elder Rigdon against Martin Harris, one was, that he told A. C. Russell, Esq. that Joseph drank too much liquor when he was translating the Book of Mormon, and that he wrestled with many men and threw them, &c.; and that he (Harris) exalted himself above Joseph, in that he said, "Brother Joseph knew not the contents of the Book of Mormon, until it was translated, but that he, himself knew all about it before it was translated. Brother Harris said he did not tell Esq. Russell that Brother Joseph drank too much liquor while translating the Book of Mormon, but this thing occurred previous to the translating of the book; he confessed that his mind was darkened, and that he had said many things inadvertantly [inadvertently], calculated to wound the feelings of his brethren, and promised to do better. The council forgave him, with much good advice."

  • Times and Seasons, Vol. VI, p. 992.

145

 Hurlbut's affidavits were published by E.D. Howe in Mormonism Unvailed.

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.

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".
  •  Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.: the author needs a source.
  • Source not provided.

149

 Joseph found a skeleton of a Lamanite warrior named "Zelf"
  • History of the Church 2:79-80
  • "Elder Kimball's Journal," Times and Seasons, Vol. VI, p. 788.

Chapter 11: Patronage and Punishment

Page Claim Response Author's sources

159

 Zion's Camp was a "major failure" for Joseph Smith.
  • Author's opinion.

159

 Men and women had died in Missouri Joseph Smith's name.
  • Author's opinion.

159

 Joseph decided that he could no longer give out "incidental" revelations after the Missouri trials.
  • Author's opinion.

162

 The Kirtland High Council complained that the Apostles had too much power.
  • History of the Church 2:240

162

 Henry Green was cut off from the church simply because of a remark made that Joseph was "extorting" the cost of a book.
  • History of the Church 2:275

164

 Apostle William Smith called his brother Joseph a "tyrant" and attempted to beat him.
  • Court of Common Pleas, County of Geauga, Ohio, June 16, 1835.
  • Painesville Telegraph, June 26, 1835.

165

 Joseph was "vain" regarding his "wrestling prowess."
  • Author's opinion.

166

 The Word of Wisdom was not given by "commandment or constraint" because Joseph was "too fond of earthly pleasures."
  • Author's opinion.

167

 Joseph did not take the Word of Wisdom seriously.
  • Author's opinion.

167

 Joseph replaced wine with water in the Sacrament because Sidney Rigdon forced a vote for total abstinence through the Church.
  • Wilford Woodruff's journal, quoted by Matthias F. Cowley in Wilford Woodruff (Salt Lake, 1909), p. 65.

Chapter 12: Master of Languages

Page Claim Response Author's sources

170

 Joseph did not originally intend to translate the papyri "by inspiration as in the past," and instead attempted to formulate an Egyptian alphabet and grammar.

171

 Joseph picked up the idea that there were plural gods when he learned in Hebrew class that Elohim was plural.
  • Author's opinion.
  • Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.

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.
  • Author's opinion.
  • Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.

171

 Joseph developed the idea that matter was "eternal and indestructible" from Thomas Dick's work.
  • Author's opinion.
  • Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.

172

 Joseph's concept of Kolob being "near the throne of God" and its control of the reckoning of time came from Thomas Dick.
  • Author's opinion.
  • Thomas Dick, Philosophy of a Future State.

173

 Joseph wrote the Book of Abraham in order to justify denying the priesthood to Blacks.
  • Author's opinion.

173

 Joseph criticized the abolitionist movement.

174

 Joseph taught that "one third of the spirits had been neutral" in Heaven.
  • Orson Hyde, "Speech before the High Priests," Nauvoo, April 27, 1845 printed as a pamphlet by the Millennial Star office, July 1845, p. 27.

174

 Joseph taught that his family was directly descended from Ephraim.
  • History of the Church, Vol. III, p. 380.

175

 The Book of Abraham facsimiles are ordinary funeral documents.

179

 It was reported that some of the men were drunk during the dedication of the Kirtland Temple.

Chapter 13: My Kingdom is of this World

Page Claim Response Author's sources

181

 Joseph Smith was rumored to have "seduced" Fannie Alger.

181

 It was rumored that Fannie Alger was driven out of the house by Emma.

181

 Joseph and Fannie were "found together."

182

 Joseph accused Oliver Cowdery of "perpetuating the scandal."

182

 Oliver was excommunicated for "insinuating that the prophet had been guilty of adultery."

182

 Fannie Alger did not admit to being the Prophet's plural wife.

183

 Martin Harris was brought to trial for adultery "as early as 1832."

182

 Joseph told Ezra Booth to "take a wife from among the Lamanites."

183

 Joseph performed marriages even though it was against Ohio law. The marriage of Newel Knight and Lydia Goldthwait Baily was performed by Joseph against the law.
  • The Knight-Bailey wedding was not illegal, since Newel Knight obtained a marriage license from the secular authorities. The state of Ohio did not contest Joseph's performance of the marriage, since it then issued a marriage certificate for the Knights' marriage. Joseph later performed other marriages in Ohio, and these couples likewise received marriage certificates after Joseph submitted the necessary paperwork.
  • Illegal marriages in Ohio
  • Joseph Smith and polygamy
  • No source provided.

185

 Oliver Cowdery wrote a formal statement that the Church denied polygamy in August 1835.

187

 Joseph realized "that for a prophet it is easier to change marriage laws than to contravene them."
  • Author's opinion

187

 The Mormons believe that when they become "sufficiently purified" that the treasures in the earth would be "poured into their lap."

189

 Isaac McWithy was brought to trial before the High Council because he would not sell his farm to Joseph Smith.

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.

Chapter 14: Disaster in Kirtland

Page Claim Response Author's sources

195

 The Kirtland Safety Society was said to have been established by "a revelation from God," and that it would "grow and flourish, and spread from the rivers to the ends of the earth, and survive when all others should be laid in ruins."
  • Warren Parrish, letter dated March 6, 1838, published in Zion's Watchman March 24, 1838.

197

 The assets backing the Kirtland Safety Society's notes were actually boxes filled with "sand, lead, old iron, stone and combustibles."
  • Wilhelm Wyl, Mormon Portraits Volume First: Joseph Smith the Prophet, His Family and Friends (Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1886), 36.
  • Oliver H. Olney, The Absurdities of Mormonism Portrayed (Hancock County, IL: N.p., 1843), 4.
  • Cyrus Smalling letter in E. G. Lee, The Mormons, or Knavery Exposed (Frankford, Philadelphia: Webber & Fenimore, 1841), 14. off-site Full title

197

 Warren Parrish claimed that the Kirtland "bank" assets were less than Joseph claimed.
  • Warren Parrish, letter to Zion's Watchman, published March 24, 1838.
  • Cyrus Smalling letter in E. G. Lee, The Mormons, or Knavery Exposed, p. 14.

198

 The Kirtland Safety Society "bank" was operating illegally.
  • Trial record in Chardon, Ohio courthouse, Vol. U, p. 362.

198

 Warren Parrish could not have taken $25,000 because the bank didn't have that much.
  • Elder's Journal, August 1838, p. 56.

199

 Joseph "prophesied" that the bank notes would be "as good as gold."
  • Wilhelm Wyl, Mormon Portraits Volume First: Joseph Smith the Prophet, His Family and Friends (Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1886), 35.

199

 Brigham Young exchanged his Kirtland bank notes for gold years later in Salt Lake City.
  • No source provided.

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.
  • Lucy Smith, Biographical Sketches, pp. 211-213.

Chapter 15: The Valley of God

Page Claim Response Author's sources

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

211

 Joseph proclaimed that an altar found in Missouri was where Adam offered sacrifices.

211

 Joseph said that Adam shall come to visit his people at Adam-ondi-Ahman.

211

 The Saints believed that Jackson County was the site of the Garden of Eden.

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.

212

 Joseph justified slavery.

213

 Sidney Rigdon supported Sampson Avard's formation of a "secret" band.

214

 Joseph and Sidney "were careful not to be associated" with the Danites.

214

 The Danites were a secret society with oaths, passwords and secret signs.
  • Correspondence, Orders, etc. in relation to the disturbances with the Mormons;…

215

 Joseph "made a confused and damaging admission of his own relationship to the Danite organization" before his death.
  • Minutes of a Nauvoo City Council Meeting, Jan. 3, 1844, History of the Church 6:165.

215

 Joseph formally sanctioned Sampson Avard and the Danites.
  • Correspondence, Orders, etc. in relation to the disturbances with the Mormons;…

217

 Sidney Rigdon wanted to have Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer cut off from the church in order to banish his rivals.

218

 Sidney Rigdon's Salt Sermon threatened the dissenters in the Church.

219

 The dissenters were ordered to leave Far West.

223

 Sidney Rigdon's 4th of July sermon alluded to a "war of extermination" with the mob.

Chapter 16: The Alcoran or the Sword

Page Claim Response Author's sources

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.

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.

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.

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"

232

 Sidney Rigdon threatened anyone who was planning to leave Far West.
  • Correspondence, Orders, etc. pp. 120-5, 134-6, 143.

234

 Orson Hyde and Thomas B. Marsh admitted that the Mormons were "burning and pillaging."
  •  History unclear or in error: Hyde and Marsh later admitted they had perjured themselves, and returned to the Church.
  • Correspondence, Orders, etc. pp. 57-62, 76

Chapter 17: Ordeal in Liberty Jail

Page Claim Response Use of sources

246

 William Smith stated regarding his brother Joseph that he "would have hung him years ago!"
  • History of the Church 3:226-33

251-252

 While in Liberty Jail, Joseph was worried that Sidney Rigdon would revive the United Order and the Danites.
  • History of the Church 3:295, 301, 303

252

 Lucinda Morgan Harris claimed to have been "the prophet's mistress" at one time.

Chapter 18: Nauvoo

Page Claim Response Author's sources

257

 Over the years, the stories of Josephs healings of the sick in Nauvoo multiplied.

269

 Nauvoo had a brothel near the temple.
  • Times and Seasons 2:599 (Aug. 2, 1841)
  • Wasp 1:26 (Oct. 15, 1842)

272

 Joseph's bodyguards in Nauvoo were the remnants of the Danite band.

Chapter 19: Mysteries of the Kingdom

Page Claim Response Author's sources

275

 When recounting his history, Joseph's "[d]ream images came easily to him and with such intense color and luxuriant detail that the matter of accuracy or chronology was of no importance."
  • Author's conjecture.

275

 Everything in Joseph's past was reinterpreted to "enhance the glory of the present."
  • Author's conjecture.

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.
  • Author's conjecture.

276

 Joseph said regarding the Book of Mormon manuscript that he had "had trouble enough with this thing."
  • This quote is only known from the hostile Ebenezer Robinson's account of Joseph placing the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon in the cornerstone of the Nauvoo house. There is no contemporary record of Joseph making this remark. If he did so, it could be seen in a variety of ways—including a rather rueful, somewhat humorous acknowledgment that the Book of Mormon had brought persecution upon him.
  • Even if true, it is not clear what the author hopes to prove. Joseph clearly did not abandon the Book of Mormon, or regret its production. On the evening before his death, the prophet bore testimony of its truth to his guards (History of the Church, 6:600. Volume 6 link).
  • The Return 2:315 (Aug. 1890)

276

 Joseph Smith claimed that the word "Mormon" meant "more good."
  • Times and Seasons 4:194 (May 15, 1843)

279

 Much of the endowment ritual was borrowed from the Freemasons.
  • Author's conjecture.

280

 Joseph rose to the "sublime degree" of Masonry within one day.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

Chapter 20: In the Quiver of the Almighty

Page Claim Response Use of sources

289

 Joseph permitted the construction of a brewery in Nauvoo and allowed it to be advertised.

289

 Joseph gave some of the brethren money to purchase additional whiskey in contradiction to the Word of Wisdom.
  • Millennial Star 21:283.

289

 Joseph was presented with a bottle of wine and he "drank it with relish."
  • History of the Church 5:380

289

 Joseph told Robert Thompson that he should "get drunk and have a good spree" or that he would die.
  • Diary of Oliver Huntington 3:166

290

 Joseph claimed to be able to translate a Greek psalter.
  •  The author's claim is false: This claim from an 1842 anti-Mormon work is riddled with difficulties—including the fact that Joseph had studied Greek, and so would have known Greek characters upon examination.
  • Joseph Smith and Greek psalter
  •  [ATTENTION!]

291

 Joseph claimed that he translated a portion of the Kinderhook plates.

Chapter 21: If a Man Entice a Maid

Page Claim Response Use of sources

298

 The doctrine of polygamy was secretly taught but publicly denied.

299

 Joseph is claimed to have published a pamphlet called "The Peace Maker" supporting plural marriage in 1842, but then later denounced it.
  • Udney Hay Jacob, "An Israelite, and a shepherd of Israel," An Extract from a 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)

299

 Paul taught that there were be no marriage in heaven, but Joseph taught that this would not apply to the Saints.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

300

 Joseph taught that more wives in heaven meant more blessings in heaven.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

302

 Joseph was sealed to women who were already married.

306

 Martha Brotherton claimed that Brigham Young wanted her as a plural wife.
  • 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.

Chapter 22: The Bennett Explosion

Page Claim Response Use of sources

310

 Joseph wrote a letter to Nancy Rigdon in an attempt to persuade her to become his plural wife.
  • John C. Bennett, History of the Saints, pp. 243-5.

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."
  •  Absurd claim: Bennett's claim rings hollow, since after the supposed encounter in which Joseph threatened him, Bennett remained in Nauvoo for another 5-6 weeks before finally leaving. A week after "escaping" from Nauvoo, Bennett returned to the city.[1] Even after publishing his attacks on Joseph, Bennett felt safe returning to Nauvoo and meeting with the prophet—hardly the acts of someone afraid for his life from religious fanatics.
  • John C. Bennett
  • Letter from Bennett to the Sangamo Journal, July 2, 1842, published July 15, 1842
  • History of the Church 5:13.

314

 Bennett claimed that the Danites were present in Nauvoo.
  • Bennett, like many anti-Mormon imitators after him, would repeatedly claim that his truth telling put his life at grave risk from the "Danite" assassins, who "pledge themselves to poison the wells and the food and drink of dissenters, apostates, and all enemies of Zion, and to murder…[and] to destroy by fire and sword all the enemies of Mormonism."[2]
  •  Absurd claim: Bennett's subsequent actions belie his worry—he was to remain openly in Nauvoo for another five weeks, and during his two years of extensive anti-Mormon lecturing and publishing, he was never threatened by Danites. He even returned to Nauvoo a week after "escaping"—hardly a sign of fear.
  • Danites
  • Danites in anti-Mormon polemic
  •  [ATTENTION!]

316

 Joseph proposed plural marriage to Sarah Pratt while her husband Orson was away on a mission.

Chapter 23: Into Hiding

Page Claim Response Use of sources

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.

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.

331

 Joseph was accused of sending Porter Rockwell to kill Lilburn Boggs.

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"

Chapter 24: The Wives of the Prophet

  •  [ATTENTION!]
Page Claim Response Use of sources

334

 The number of women sealed to Joseph Smith may have exceeded fifty.
  • William Hepworth Dixon: New America (1867), p. 225.

336

 At least twelve of the women sealed to Joseph were already married with living husbands.
  •  History unclear or in error: the number was lower; Brodie's evidentiary standards are weak. She notes that the evidence for one of these women (Mrs. Levi Hancock) is "only word-of-mouth tradition in the Hancock family."
  • Polyandry
  • No source provided.

338

 "Most" of Joseph wives were married to him for "time [that is, life] and eternity."
  • No source provided.

339

 Emma selected the Partridge sisters and the Lawrence sisters as plural wives for Joseph.
  • No source provided.

342

 Emma burned the revelation on plural marriage.
  • This is likely true.
  • No source provided.

343

 Joseph said that he would have Emma as his wife in the hereafter even if he had to "go to hell" for her.
  • This is likely true.
  • B. Young, Journal of Discourses 17:159

345

There is "some evidence that Fannie Alger bore Joseph a child in Kirtland."

345

 Prescindia Huntington Buell's son Oliver may have been Joseph's son.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

345

 "Legend" says that John Reed Hancock may have been Joseph's son.

345

 The son of Mary Rollins Lightner "may as easily have been the prophet's son as that of Adam Lightner."

345

 Mrs. Orson Hyde's sons Orson and Frank "could have been Joseph's sons."
  •  History unclear or in error: Brodie mistakes the date on Frank's birth certificate—it is impossible for him to have been Joseph's son.
  • Orson died in infancy, but the birth dates match times when Orson Sr. was available to sire him. Most historians have disagreed with Brodie here.
  • Joseph Smith and polygamy—Children of polygamous marriages—Hyde

345

 Mrs. Parley P. Pratt's son Moroni "might also be added to this list."

345-346

 "According to tradition," Emma beat Eliza Snow with a broomstick and caused her to fall down the stairs, resulting in a miscarriage.
  • None specified.

346

 "It is astonishing that evidence of other children than these has never come to light."

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."
  •  Misrepresentation of source: Grant says nothing about Joseph's polyandrous marriages; he is speaking of cases (e.g., such as Heber and Vilate Kimball) in which Joseph proposed plural marriage but then relented.
  • See Quote mining—Journal of Discourses 2:14 to see how this quote was mined.
  • Polyandry

346

 Perhaps Joseph "learned some primitive method of birth control" or took advantage of items such as "Portuguese Female Pills" to produce miscarriage.
  • No source provided.

Chapter 25: Candidate for President

Page Claim Response Author's sources

353

 Hyrum Smith claimed to receive a revelation that the Democratic candidate was to receive the Mormon vote.

354

 Joseph said that God was his "right hand man."
  • History of the Church 6:71-78

355-356

 Joseph "had become a law unto himself" and totally disregarded Illinois state law.
  •  [ATTENTION!]

356

 A council of fifty "princes" was formed to be the "highest court on earth."
  •  [ATTENTION!]

356

 The Council of Fifty ordained and crowned Joseph as "King of the Kingdom of God."
  • William Marks, Zion's Harbinger and Baneemy's Organ, Vol. 3 (July 1853) p. 52.

364

 Joseph's presidential candidacy included a proposal to free the slaves, "in a complete reversal of his earlier stand."

365

 The Book of Abraham contained "anti-Negro sentiments."

365

 The Negro is denied a place in the Mormon priesthood (as of 1971 printing).

Chapter 26: Prelude to Destruction

Page Claim Response Author's sources

368

 Joseph threatened to excommunicate wealthy 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

368

 William Law thought that Joseph was diverting funds donated for the Nauvoo House to purchasing land to re-sell to converts.

370

 Joseph said that Hell was "an agreeable place."
  •  Prejudicial or loaded language: the author's only source is the anti-Mormon Expositor.
  • Nauvoo Expositor, June 7, 1844

370

 Joseph threatened to "blow up the steamboats that did not pay" wharfage fees.
  • History of the Church 6:234, 238

373

 All references to plural marriage in Joseph's journals were disguised.
  • History of the Church 6:409

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."
  • History of the Church 6:408-412

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.
  • Marks was an unreliable witness; he broke with Joseph over plural marriage.
  • Joseph continued to teach the doctrine to his death.
  • William Marks, Zion's Harbinger and Baneemy's Organ Vol. 3 (July 1853), pp. 52-53.

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

377

 The destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor was a violation of the Constitution.
  • No source provided.

Chapter 27: Carthage

Page Claim Response Author's sources

381

 Joseph blessed his son Joseph III to be his successor as president 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.

392

 Joseph sent for some wine while in Carthage Jail and "all except Hyrum sipped a little."
  • History of the Church 7:101

394

 Joseph may have given the Masonic signal of distress as he leaped to the window.
  • Zina Huntington Jacobs, Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 698.

405

 Joseph was lazy.  [ATTENTION!]

CHECK SOURCE(S)

Endnotes

  1. [note]  Bennett left for Springfield on 21 June 1842 to arrange publication of letters "exposing" Joseph and the Saints. See Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Knopf, 2005), 461–462.
  2. [note]  John C. Bennett, The History of the Saints, or an Exposé of Joe Smith and Mormonism (Boston: Leland & Whiting, 1842), 271. (Bennett examined)

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