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Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/Sidney Rigdon/CriticalSources
Source(s) of the criticism
- “The Mormon Mystery Developed,” Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, New York) (20 December 1833). off-site
- “Mormon Religion—Clerical Ambition—Western New York—The Mormonites Gone to Ohio,” Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer (New York City, New York) 7, no. 1331 (1 September 1831). off-site [the earliest mention of this concept which FAIR has identified]
- “Mormonism,” Dayton Journal and Advertiser (Dayton, Ohio) 5, no. 45 (4 October 1831): 1. Reprinted from the Cincinnati Gazette (26 September 1831). off-site
- “Mormonism,” The Herald of Truth (Philadelphia) (December 1831): 406–7. Reprinted from Broome County Courier (Binghamton, New York) (22 December 1831). off-site
- “Mormonism—Its History,” Philadelphia Mirror (22 August 1836). off-site
- “Universalism in Ohio,” Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate (Utica, New York) (12 September 1835): 291. off-site
- Clericus, “Mormonism,” Christian Register (Boston) 15, no. 52 (24 December 1836): 1. Reprinted from Hampshire Gazette, circa December 1836. (Cites Mormonism Unvailed). off-site
- H, “Joe Smith-ism, alias Mormonism,” Christian Palladium (Union Mills, New York) 5, no. 16 (15 December 1836): 243–44. off-site
- Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH, 1834), 98, 289–. (Affidavits examined)
- William S. West, A Few Interesting Facts, Respecting the Rise Progress and Pretensions of the Mormons (1837), 15–16. off-site