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Contents
- 1 Index to claims made in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
- 1.1
- 1.2 Chapter 2
- 1.3 Chapter 3
- 1.4 Chapter 4
- 1.5 Chapter 5
- 1.6 Chapter 6
- 1.7 Chapter 7
- 1.8 Chapter 8
- 1.9 Chapter 9
- 1.10 Chapter 10
- 1.11 Chapter 11
- 1.12 Chapter 12
- 1.13 Chapter 13
- 1.14 Chapter 14
- 1.15 Chapter 15
- 1.16 Chapter 16
- 1.17 Chapter 17
- 1.18 Chapter 18
- 1.19 Chapter 19
- 1.20 Chapter 20
- 1.21 Chapter 21
- 1.22 Chapter 22
- 1.23 Chapter 23
- 1.24 Chapter 24
- 1.25 Chapter 25
- 1.26 Chapter 26
- 1.27 Chapter 27
Index to claims made in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
| A FAIR Analysis of: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith A work by author: Fawn Brodie
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Chapter 2
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 2: Treasure in the EarthJump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 16 - Joseph was notorious for telling tall tales
- Response to claim: 16 - Joseph was charged with being "a disorderly person and an impostor" at his 1826 trial
- Response to claim: 18 - Fifty-one of Joseph's neighbors signed affidavits accusing him of being "destitute of moral character" and "addicted to vicious habits"
- Response to claim: 18 - Joseph dreamed of an "illustrious and affluent" future, "detested the plow" and despaired about the family's debts
- Response to claim: 19 - A "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters became popular in the area. When Walters left the area, "his mantle fell upon" Joseph Smith
- Response to claim: 20 - William Stafford told a story about Joseph which claimed that he could find money using a bleeding black sheep
- Response to claim: 20 - Joseph could see "ghosts, infernal spirits" and "mountains of gold" in his seer stone
- Response to claim: 23 - Palmyra newspapers took no notice of Joseph's vision at the time it was supposed to have occurred
- Response to claim: 24 - The story of Joseph first vision evolved greatly between his 1832 and 1838 accounts
- Response to claim: 24- Oliver Cowdery described Joseph's first vision as having occurred in 1823
- Response to claim: 24 - Some of Joseph's close relatives confused the first vision with Moroni's visit
- Response to claim: 25 - Joseph's own family did not know of his first vision at the time that it happened
- Response to claim: 25 - Joseph's vision may have been an invention to cancel out stories of his fortune telling and money digging
- Response to claim: 26 - Joseph liked preaching because it gave him an audience, and this was as "essential to Joseph as food"
- Response to claim: 30 - In March 1826 Joseph got into serious trouble because of his "magic arts"
- Response to claim: 30 - The court pronounced Joseph "guilty" at the 1826 trial
- Response to claim: 31 - Joseph's mentor was "the conjurer Walters"
Chapter 3
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 3: Red Sons of Israel"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 35 - Between 1820 and 1827 Joseph decided to write a history of the mound builders
- Response to claim: 37 - Peter Ingersoll claimed that Joseph told him that no one could see the golden Bible and live
- Response to claim: 39 - The "magic" Urim and Thummim was found with the plates
- Response to claim: 40 - The four year period during which Joseph waited to get the plates corresponded with his most intensive money-digging activities
- Response to claim: 40 - Lucy Mack Smith, Martin Harris and David Whitmer gave differing descriptions of the Urim and Thummim
- Response to claim: 41 - Joseph warned his family that it meant instant death to look at the plates
- Response to claim: 43 - Joseph was able to translate the plates without unwrapping them by using his stone
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 43 - God cursed the Lamanites and all their descendents with a "red skin"
- Response to claim: 43 - A neighbor, Lemuel Durfee. Signed an affidavit in 1833 charging Joseph with vicious habits and an immoral character
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 49 - Joseph Smith took the whole Western Hemisphere as the setting for the Book of Mormon
Chapter 4
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 4: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 53 - Joseph warned Martin Harris that God's wrath would strike him down if he examined the plates
- Response to claim: 53 - Harris once tried to trick Joseph by substituting an ordinary stone for the seer stone
- Response to claim: 54 - Lucy Harris stole the manuscript and "neither pleas nor blows could make her divulge its hiding place"
- Response to claim: 54 - Joseph realized that he could not duplicate the 116 pages exactly
- Response to claim: 55 - Joseph's family was counting on sales of the Book of Mormon to prevent foreclosure on their farm
- Response to claim: 55 - Once Joseph had translated the small plates of Nephi, he could go back to the old plates and carry on
- Response to claim: 58 - The Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon were "chiefly those chapters from Isaiah mentioned in Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews
- Response to claim: 58 - Joseph was careful to modify primarily the italicized interpolation in the King James text
- Response to claim: 58 - Joseph incorporated one of his father's dreams into the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 59 - Early in the writing Joseph vigorously attacked the Catholic Church as the "great and abominable church" and the "whore of all the earth"
- Response to claim: 60 - Lucy Smith's stories about the Golden Bible had converted Oliver Cowdery
- Response to claim: 62 - Joseph Smith's lack of education is "a favorite thesis designed to prove the authenticity" of the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 62-63 - Joseph Smith borrowed many stories from the Bible
- Response to claim: 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"
- Response to claim: 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
Chapter 5
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 5: Witnesses for God"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 69 - The Church has "exaggerated the ignorance" of Joseph Smith in order to bolster the divinity of the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 70 - The Book of Mormon claims that Jesus was born in Jerusalem
- Response to claim: 70-71 - Joseph added the story of the Jaredites in order to explain how animals had come to America
- Response to claim: 72 - Joseph had the Jaredites bring horses, swine, sheep, cattle, and asses, yet these animals were not found in the Americas
- Response to claim: 74 - Joseph had a talent for making men see visions
- Response to claim: 77 - The Three Witnesses all told different versions of their experience
- Response to claim: 77 - The author claims that the Three Witnesses were hypnotized by Joseph Smith
- Response to claim: 78 - Martin Harris stated that he viewed the plates through "the eye of faith"
- Response to claim: 78 - The author claims that years after the event, David Whitmer embellished his story of seeing the gold plates
- Response to claim: 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"
- Response to claim: 79 - The first edition of the Book of Mormon said that Joseph was "Author and proprietor," which in later editions was changed to "Translator"
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 81 - Hyrum suggested to Joseph that they attempt to sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 82 - Martin Harris sold his farm to pay for the publication of the Book of Mormon only after Joseph frightened him with the revelation
Chapter 6
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 6: The Prophet of Palmyra"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 83 - The Book of Mormon was conceived as a money-making history of the Indians
- Response to claim: 84 - A story circulated that Joseph Smith boasted he would walk upon the water
- Response to claim: 84-85 - Joseph began to sincerely believe what he was teaching
- Response to claim: 86 - Joseph Smith performed "miracles," but was unaware that they were common occurrences
- Response to claim: 89 - Joseph detested tedious and solitary field labor
- Response to claim: 92 - Oliver Cowdery demanded that Joseph amend some of his own revelations
- Response to claim: 92 - Oliver Cowdery secretly encouraged Hiram Page to receive revelations through his seer stone
- Response to claim: 96 - Joseph experimented with the idea of "revealing" lost books of the Bible
Chapter 7
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 7: The Perfect Society and the Promised Land"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 102 - Joseph suggested that the Second Coming would occur within fifty-six years
- Response to claim: 103 - Joseph began "translating" the New Testament at Sidney Rigdon's suggestion
- Response to claim: 108 - The United Order was Sidney Rigdon's idea
- Response to claim: 111 - Joseph said that the lost ten tribes were living in a land near the North Pole
- Response to claim: 112 - Joseph attempted to perform miracles and failed during a conference in Kirtland, Ohio
- Response to claim: 113 - Stories claimed that miracles could not be performed in Ohio because it was not "consecrated ground"
Chapter 8
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 8: Temple Builder"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 118 - Joseph's description of the three degrees of glory contrasted Book of Mormon descriptions of a "lake of fire and brimstone"
- Response to claim: 120 - The Missouri Mormons never forgave Joseph for returning to Ohio
- Response to claim: 124 - The "Civil War" prophecy was abandoned and excluded from early collections of Joseph's revelations because they thought it had failed
- Response to claim: 127 - Joseph couldn't initially called the Kirtland Temple a "temple," since there was already land dedicated for a temple in Missouri
Chapter 9
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 9: Expulsion from Eden"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 141 - Joseph wanted to "destroy the notion" that the United Order had been similar to communism
Chapter 10
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 10: The Army of the Lord"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 143 - neighbors of Solomon Spalding recalled that the Spalding manuscript that matched "an astonishing number of details" from the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 144 - The Spalding manuscript bore no resemblance to the Book of Mormon
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 145 - Hurlbut's affidavits were published by E.D. Howe in Mormonism Unvailed
- Response to claim: 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"
- Response to claim: 147-148 - 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"
- Response to claim: 149 - Joseph found a skeleton of a Lamanite warrior named "Zelf"
Chapter 11
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 11: Patronage and Punishment"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 159 - Zion's Camp was a "major failure" for Joseph Smith
- Response to claim: 159 - Men and women had died in Missouri Joseph Smith's name
- Response to claim: 159 - Joseph decided that he could no longer give out "incidental" revelations after the Missouri trials
- Response to claim: 162 - The Kirtland High Council complained that the Apostles had too much power
- Response to claim: 162 - Henry Green was cut off from the church simply because of a remark made that Joseph was "extorting" the cost of a book
- Response to claim: 165 - Joseph was "vain" regarding his "wrestling prowess"
- Response to claim: 166 - The Word of Wisdom was not given by "commandment or constraint" because Joseph was "too fond of earthly pleasures"
- Response to claim: 167 - Joseph did not take the Word of Wisdom seriously
- Response to claim: 167 - Joseph replaced wine with water in the Sacrament because Sidney Rigdon forced a vote for total abstinence through the Church
Chapter 12
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 12: Master of Languages"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 171 - Joseph picked up the idea that there were plural gods when he learned in Hebrew class that Elohim was plural
- Response to claim: 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
- Response to claim: 171 - Joseph developed the idea that matter was "eternal and indestructible" from Thomas Dick's work
- Response to claim: 172 - Joseph's concept of Kolob being "near the throne of God" and its control of the reckoning of time came from Thomas Dick
- Response to claim: 173 - Joseph wrote the Book of Abraham in order to justify denying the priesthood to Blacks
- Response to claim: 174 - Joseph taught that "one third of the spirits had been neutral" in Heaven
- Response to claim: 175 - The Book of Abraham facsimiles are ordinary funeral documents
- Response to claim: 179 - It was reported that some of the men were drunk during the dedication of the Kirtland Temple
Chapter 13
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 13: My Kingdom is of this World"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 181 - Joseph Smith was rumored to have "seduced" Fannie Alger
- Response to claim: 181 - It was rumored that Fannie Alger was driven out of the house by Emma because she was pregnant
- Response to claim: 181 - It is claimed that Joseph and Fannie were "found together"
- Response to claim: 182 - The author claims that Joseph accused Oliver Cowdery of "perpetuating the scandal"
- Response to claim: 182 - Fannie Alger did not admit to being the Prophet's plural wife
- Response to claim: 183 - Martin Harris was brought to trial for adultery "as early as 1832"
- Response to claim: 182 - Joseph told Ezra Booth to "take a wife from among the Lamanites"
- Response to claim: 183 - Joseph performed marriages even though it was against Ohio law
- Response to claim: 185 - Oliver Cowdery wrote a formal statement that the Church denied polygamy in August 1835
- Response to claim: 187 - Joseph realized "that for a prophet it is easier to change marriage laws than to contravene them"
- Response to claim: 189 - Isaac McWithy was brought to trial before the High Council because he would not sell his farm to Joseph Smith
- Response to claim: 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
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 14: Disaster in Kirtland"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 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"
- Response to claim: 197 - The assets backing the Kirtland Safety Society's notes were actually boxes filled with "sand, lead, old iron, stone and combustibles"
- Response to claim: 197 - Warren Parrish claimed that the Kirtland "bank" assets were less than Joseph claimed
- Response to claim: 198 - The Kirtland Safety Society "bank" was operating illegally
- Response to claim: 198 - Warren Parrish could not have taken $25,000 because the bank didn't have that much
- Response to claim: 199 - Joseph "prophesied" that the bank notes would be "as good as gold"
Chapter 15
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 15: The Valley of God"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 208 - Oliver Cowdery accused Joseph of trying to "set up a kind of petty government, controlled and dictated by ecclesiastical influence"
- Response to claim: 211 - Joseph proclaimed that an altar found in Missouri was where Adam offered sacrifices
- Response to claim: 211 - The Saints believed that Jackson County was the site of the Garden of Eden
- Response to claim: 213 - Sidney Rigdon supported Sampson Avard's formation of a "secret" band
- Response to claim: 214 - Joseph and Sidney "were careful not to be associated" with the Danites
- Response to claim: 214 - The Danites were a secret society with oaths, passwords and secret signs
- Response to claim: 215 - Joseph "made a confused and damaging admission of his own relationship to the Danite organization" before his death
- Response to claim: 217 - Sidney Rigdon wanted to have Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer cut off from the church in order to banish his rivals
- Response to claim: 218-219 - Sidney Rigdon's Salt Sermon threatened the dissenters in the Church
- Response to claim: 223 - Sidney Rigdon's 4th of July sermon alluded to a "war of extermination" with the mob
Chapter 16
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 16: The Alcoran or the Sword"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 230-231 - Joseph Smith claimed to be "a second Mohammed" and that it would eventually be "Joseph Smith or the Sword!"
- Response to claim: 230 - Joseph hinted that stealing the gentiles' supplies was acceptable
- Response to claim: 232n - Joseph "virtually admitted" that the Mormons were responsible for the looting and burning
- Response to claim: 232 - Sidney Rigdon threatened anyone who was planning to leave Far West
- Response to claim: 234 - Orson Hyde and Thomas B. Marsh admitted that the Mormons were "burning and pillaging"
Chapter 17
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 17: Ordeal in Liberty Jail"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 251-252 - While in Liberty Jail, Joseph was worried that Sidney Rigdon would revive the United Order and the Danites
- Response to claim: 252 - Lucinda Morgan Harris claimed to have been "the prophet's mistress" at one time
Chapter 18
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 18: Nauvoo"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 257 - Over the years, the stories of Josephs healings of the sick in Nauvoo multiplied
- Response to claim: 269 - Nauvoo had a brothel near the temple
Chapter 19
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 19: Mysteries of the Kingdom"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 275 - Joseph's "dream images came easily to him and with such intense color and luxuriant detail"
- Response to claim: 275 - Everything in Joseph's past was reinterpreted to "enhance the glory of the present"
- Response to claim: 276 - The Book of Mormon was a "secret source of worry" to Joseph
- Response to claim: 276 - Joseph said regarding the Book of Mormon manuscript that he had "had trouble enough with this thing"
- Response to claim: 276 - Joseph Smith claimed that the word "Mormon" meant "more good"
- Response to claim: 279 - Much of the endowment ritual was borrowed from the Freemasons
Chapter 20
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 20: In the Quiver of the Almighty"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 289 - Joseph permitted the construction of a brewery in Nauvoo and allowed it to be advertised
- Response to claim: 289 - Joseph gave some of the brethren money to purchase additional whiskey in contradiction to the Word of Wisdom
- Response to claim: 289 - Joseph was presented with a bottle of wine and he "drank it with relish"
- Response to claim: 289 - Joseph told Robert Thompson that he should "get drunk and have a good spree" or that he would die
- Response to claim: 290 - Joseph claimed to be able to translate a Greek psalter
- Response to claim: 291 - Joseph claimed that he translated a portion of the Kinderhook plates
Chapter 21
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 21: If a Man Entice a Maid"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 298 - The doctrine of polygamy was secretly taught but publicly denied
- Response to claim: 299 - Joseph is claimed to have published a pamphlet called "The Peace Maker" supporting plural marriage in 1842, but then later denounced it
- Response to claim: 299 - Paul taught that there were be no marriage in heaven, but Joseph taught that this would not apply to the Saints
- Response to claim: 302 - Joseph was sealed to women who were already married
Chapter 22
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 22: The Bennett Explosion"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 310 - Joseph wrote a letter to Nancy Rigdon in an attempt to persuade her to become his plural wife
- Response to claim: 312 - John C. Bennett claimed that Joseph threatened to deliver him to the Danites
- Response to claim: 314 - Bennett claimed that the Danites were present in Nauvoo
- Response to claim: 316 - Joseph proposed plural marriage to Sarah Pratt while her husband Orson was away on a mission
Chapter 23
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 23: Into Hiding"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 323 - There was a rumor that Joseph had predicted that Governor's Boggs and Carlin would meet a violent death
- Response to claim: 328 - Joseph threatened to have houses burned if tavern owners in the village of Paris did not let them stay for the night
- Response to claim: 331 - Joseph was accused of sending Porter Rockwell to kill Lilburn Boggs
- Response to claim: 332-333 - Joseph had a bar installed in the Mansion House but removed it at Emma's insistence
Chapter 24
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 24: The Wives of the Prophet"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 334 - The number of women sealed to Joseph Smith may have exceeded fifty
- Response to claim: 336 - At least twelve of the women sealed to Joseph were already married with living husbands
- Response to claim: 338 - "Most" of Joseph wives were married to him for "time and eternity"
- Response to claim: 339 - Emma selected the Partridge sisters and the Lawrence sisters as plural wives for Joseph
- Response to claim: 342 - Emma burned the revelation on plural marriage
- Response to claim: 343 - Joseph said that he would have Emma as his wife in the hereafter even if he had to "go to hell" for her
- Response to claim: 345 - There is "some evidence that Fannie Alger bore Joseph a child in Kirtland"
- Response to claim: 345 - The author claims that Prescindia Huntington Buell's son Oliver may have been Joseph's son
- Response to claim: 345 - "Legend" says that John Reed Hancock may have been Joseph's son
- Response to claim: 345 - The son of Mary Rollins Lightner "may as easily have been the prophet's son as that of Adam Lightner"
- Response to claim: 345 - Mrs. Orson Hyde's sons Orson and Frank "could have been Joseph's sons"
- Response to claim: 345 - Mrs. Parley P. Pratt's son Moroni "might also be added to this list"
- Response to claim: 345-346 - "According to tradition," Emma beat Eliza Snow with a broomstick and caused her to fall down the stairs, resulting in a miscarriage
- Response to claim: 346 - "It is astonishing that evidence of other children than these has never come to light"
- Response to claim: 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"
- Response to claim: 346 - Perhaps Joseph "learned some primitive method of birth control" or took advantage of items such as "Portuguese Female Pills" to produce miscarriage
Chapter 25
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 25: Candidate for President"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 354 - Joseph said that God was his "right hand man"
- Response to claim: 355-356 - Joseph "had become a law unto himself" and totally disregarded Illinois state law
- Response to claim: 356 - A council of fifty "princes" was formed to be the "highest court on earth"
- Response to claim: 356 - The Council of Fifty ordained and crowned Joseph as "King of the Kingdom of God"
Chapter 26
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 26: Prelude to Destruction"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 368 - Joseph threatened to excommunicate wealthy converts who came to Nauvoo and purchased land without his consent
- Response to claim: 368 - William Law thought that Joseph was diverting funds donated for the Nauvoo House to purchasing land to re-sell to converts
- Response to claim: 370 - Joseph said that Hell was "an agreeable place"
- Response to claim: 370 - Joseph threatened to "blow up the steamboats that did not pay" wharfage fees
- Response to claim: 374 - Joseph boasted that he was the only one who had kept a whole church together since the days of Adam
- Response to claim: 376 - Joseph admitted to William Marks that he had been "deceived" by the "spiritual wife-system"
- Response to claim: 377 - The destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor was a violation of the Constitution
Chapter 27
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 27: Carthage"Jump to Subtopic:
- Response to claim: 381 - Joseph blessed his son Joseph III to be his successor as president of the Church
- Response to claim: 392 - Joseph sent for some wine while in Carthage Jail and "all except Hyrum sipped a little"
- Response to claim: 394 - Joseph may have given the Masonic signal of distress as he leaped to the window
- Response to claim: 405 - Joseph was lazy