127 epigraph, 527n1 (PB)

• This is actually David Whitmer's recollection of something that he claimed Joseph said to him 50 years earlier.
• Did Joseph Smith attempt to sell the Book of Mormon copyright?

• David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ, 31.
• DC 46꞉7

127-8, 528n5 (PB)

• Joseph Smith prophesied the Second Coming to be in 1890

• History of the Church, vol. 2, 182.
• History of the Church, vol. 5, 336.

128-9, 528n10 (PB)

• The inner quote is from Marquardt's book.
• Doctrine and Covenants textual changes

• H. Michael Marquardt, The Joseph Smith Revelations: Text & Commentary, xv.

129, 529n14-15 (PB)

• Quinn, 88.

129, 529n16 (PB)

• This is a direct, attributed quote from Brodie's book, however, this is Brodie's own opinion. She does not provide a source to back up this claim.

• Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 183. ( Index of claims )

529n16 (PB)

• This claim is false. Church leaders do not advise divorce under these circumstances.
• Note that the author takes the opportunity to classify the Church as a "cult" based upon this supposition.
• Loaded and prejudicial language

• No sources provided for this claim.

130, 530n22

• The Hurlbut affidavits—Levi Lewis  ^{[needs work]}

• Levi Lewis, Susquehanna Register, May 1, 1834 reprinted in Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, 268.

131, 530n23-24 (PB)

• Native Americans to become "white and delightsome" through polygamous marriage?

• Marquardt, 375.
• Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Changing World of Mormonism (Moody Press, 1979), 210.( Index of claims )

132 (PB)

• Age of wives
• One Nation Under Gods—Sarcasm
• Loaded and prejudicial language

• No source provided.

132, 530-531n29-36 (PB)

• Joseph Smith and polygamy/Marriages to young women—Fanny Alger

• Andrew Jenson, 233.
• Benjamin F. Johnson, letter to George S. Gibbs, 1903.
• Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), 6-7.
• Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 31-34. ( Index of claims )

133, 531n37-40 (PB)

• Joseph Smith and polygamy/Fanny Alger and William McLellin

• Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 35. ( Index of claims )
• Ann Elza Web Young, Wife No. 19, 66-67.

133, n42 (PB)

• 1835 Doctrine and Covenants denies polygamy
• Loaded and prejudicial language

• D&C 1835, 251.

135, 531n45 (PB)

• The citiation does not support the author's assertion that this involved "nearly every Saint, including Smith."
• The endnote quotes Kimball as saying, "we were much grieved to see the spirit of speculation prevaiiling in the church..." Kimball doesn't say anything about Joseph Smith's involvment. He does state that, "all seemed determined to become rich; in my feelings they were artificial or imaginary riches." A more complete quote is included in the endnote.
• Mind reading

• Heber C. Kimball, "History of Heber Chase Kimball by his own Dictation," 47-48 quote in Jessee, 397-398.

135, 531n46-48

• Robert Kent Fielding, "The Growth of the Mormon Church in Kirtland, Ohio," Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1957, typed copy, 202-204. 206-208, 211-212. Quoted in Jerald and Sandra Tanner, The Mormon Kingdom, vol. 1, 9.
• Unfortunately, the primary sources used by Fielding and Tanner are not provided.

531n48

• The High Council court was to "investigate the charges of 'A want of benevolence to the poor, and charity to the Church,' which [Joseph] had previously preferred against Brother Preserved Harris and Elder Isaac McWithy.
• Note that Joseph said "We offered him..."—this was not a personal transaction with Joseph.
• History of the Church states: "In the pleas of the Councilors, in the case of Elder McWithy, they decided that the charges had been fully sustained; after which, I spoke in my turn as accuser, and stated that I called on the accused, in company with President Oliver Cowdery, for money to send up to Zion, but could get none; afterwards saw him, and asked him if he would sell his farm. He at first seemed willing, and wished to build up Zion. He pleaded excuse in consequence of his liberality to the poor. We offered him three thousand dollars for his farm, would give him four or five hundred dollars to take him to Zion, and settle him there, and an obligation for the remainder, with good security and interest. He went and told Father Lyon that we demanded all his property, and so we lost four or five hundred dollars; because the accused told him [Lyon] such a story, [that] he calculated to keep it [the aforesaid four or five hundred dollars] himself."

• History of the Church, vol. 2, 446.

135 (PB)

• Loaded and prejudicial language

136, 532n51 (PB)

• The author paraphrases Brodie's assertion that "The bank was said to have been established by a revelation from God..."

• Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 195. ( Index of claims ), citing Warren Parrish, letter dated March 6, 1838, Zion's Watchman, March 24, 1838

136, 532n54 (PB)

• The author quotes Brodie, who in turn cites three anti-Mormon sources: W. Wyl, Mormon Portraits, p. 36, Oliver Olney, Absurdities of Mormonism Portrayed, p. 4 and E.G. Lee, The Mormons, or Knavery Exposed, p. 14.

• Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 196-197. ( Index of claims )

136, 532n56

• The author quotes Brodie's opinion. Brodie provides no citation to back up the assertion that "everyone's pockets bulged with bills."

• Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 196. ( Index of claims )