127 epigraph, 527n1 (PB)

• This is actually David Whitmer's recollection of something that he claimed Joseph said to him 50 years earlier.
• It contradicts the documents upon which is it supposedly based.
• 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, 2:182. Volume 2 link
• History of the Church, 5:336. Volume 5 link

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)

•  The author's claim is false: No law was broken, and marriage certificates were issued by the state of Ohio; no license was required.
• Any religious leader had a right to perform marriages in Ohio.
• Ohio marriages illegal?

• D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (Signature Books, 1994), 88..

129, 529n17

•  Misrepresentation of source: Joseph gave them marriage certificates?
•  The author's claim is false: Ohio marriages illegal?

• History of the Church, 2:377–378. Volume 2 link

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)

•  The author's 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

• Eliza Winters claims
• The Hurlbut affidavits—Levi Lewis

• 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
• Sarcasm
• Loaded and prejudicial language

• No source provided.

132, 530-531n29-36 (PB)

• 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)

• 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
• Fanny Alger: affair or marriage?
• Loaded and prejudicial language
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mind reading

• D&C 1835, 251.

135, 531n45 (PB)

• The citation 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 prevailing 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

• This was Church land which Joseph held in trust.
• Use of sources: Joseph owned 144 acres in Kirtland
• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Presentism

• 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

• Notable omissions: Isaac McWithy tried for insolence

• History of the Church, 2:446. Volume 2 link

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..."
• Brodie can provide no evidence, save an angry apostate after the fact, who contradicted his own testimony. Why do contemporary sources say that Joseph did not tell them what the Lord said?
• Use of sources: Warren Parrish and Kirtland Safety Society "revelation"
• Kirtland Safety Society

• 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: Wilhelm Wyl, Mormon Portraits Volume First: Joseph Smith the Prophet, His Family and Friends (Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1886), 36. [1886], Oliver Olney, Absurdities of Mormonism Portrayed, p. 4 [1843], and E.G. Lee, The Mormons, or Knavery Exposed, p. 14 [1841].
• Who do none of the contemporary complaints about the bank include these charges? Why do they only appear years later?
• Kirtland Safety Society

• 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 )