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Episode 04 – Slide 55
FootnoteComplete statement: “I became acquainted with, the family of Joseph Smith, Sen. about the year 1820, in the town of Manchester, N. York. They were a family that labored vary little–the chief they did, was to dig for money. Joseph Smith, Jr. the pretended...
Episode 04 – Slide 54
Footnotehttp://www.conchisle.com/magic.htm Samantha Payne manuscript affidavit, June 29, 1881, Ontario County Clerk’s Office, Canandaigua, New York, photocopy in fd. 31, box 149, Marquardt papers, Marriott Library.
Episode 04 – Slide 53
FootnoteFull quote: “When properly invoked, with Jupiter being very powerful and ruling in the heavens, these intelligences—by the power of ancient magic—guaranteed to the possessor of this talisman the gain of riches, and favor, and power, and love and peace; and to...
Episode 04 – Slide 52
FootnoteD. Michael Quinn. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, 2nd edition, 1998, p.59.
Episode 04 – Slide 51
Episode 04 – Slide 50
Footnotewww.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/CA/natruths.htm#010088-2d2
Episode 04 – Slide 49
FootnoteFull quote: “…Joseph had a little ambition, and some very laudable aspirations; the mother’s intellect occasionally shone out in him feebly, especially when he used to help us to solve some portentous questions of moral or political ethics, in our juvenile...
Episode 04 – Slide 48
FootnoteWilliam Smith wrote of his brother: “That he [Joseph] was illitterate to some extent is admitted but that he was enterly unlettered is a mistake. In Sintax, authography, Mathamatics, grammar, geography with other studies in the Common Schools of his day he was...