Without Disclosing My True Identity
(^7) Howe, 77–8, 259, 265. “We are informed that Smith used a stone in a hat, for the purpose of
translating the plates. ...how do these witnesses know that when Smith translated out of a hat, with a
peep-stone, that the contents of the plates were repeated and written down?”
“The stone was placed in a hat, in such a manner as to exclude all light, except that which
emanated from the stone itself. This light of the stone, he pretended, enabled him to see any thing he
wished.” –Joseph Capron.
“The manner in which he pretended to read and interpret, was...with the stone in his hat,
and his hat over his face.” –Isaac Hale.
(^8) See D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Salt Lake City: Signature
Books, 1998) and Richard Lloyd Anderson, “The Mature Joseph Smith and Treasure Searching,”
Brigham Young University Studies 24.4 (Fall 1984): 489–560. See also Howe, 237–9, 259, 263.
(^9) Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville: Telegraph Press, 1834.) Entire book can be
found online at Google Books™ http://books.google.com/books.
(^10) Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 65, 68–9, 76. See also DHC, 1:17.
(^11) Mark Ashurst-McGee, “Correspondence Between John S. Fullmer and Josiah Stowell, Jr.,”
BYU Studies 38:3 (1999) 108–17. This can be seen at
https://byustudies.byu.edu/PDFLibrary/38.3Ashurst-McGeeJosiah-0044bb47-4c9c-4f2d-bea3-
8a4e270edd05.pdf.
(^12) Hyrum and Jerusha had six children; namely: Lovina, Mary, John, Hyrum, Jerusha, and
Sarah. With Mary Fielding, Hyrum had two children; namely: Joseph F[ielding] and Martha [Ann].
(Joseph Smith, RLDS History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, comp. Heman C. Smith, 2
[Lamoni: Herald Pub. House and Bookbindery, 1897] 776.)
(^13) Compare JSH 1:57.
(^14) “Emma Hale was born in the town of Harmony, Susquehanna [C]ounty, Pennsylvania, July
10, 1804.” DHC, 1:17, note (†).
(^15) Isaac Hale’s affidavit to Eber Howe, 20 Mar. 1834, as quoted in Howe, 263. See also
“Statement of Mr. Hale,” The Susquehanna Register, and Northern Pennsylvanian, 1 May 1834, found on
“Uncle Dale’s Readings in Early Mormon History (Newspapers of Pennsylvania),” The Dale R.
Broadhurst Sites and Major Web-pages, 6 Jul. 2007, Dale. R. Broadhurst, 24 Apr. 2011
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/PA/penn1820.htm#050134. See also n. 2 above.
(^16) “[Y]oung Smith made several visits at my house, and at length asked my consent to his
marrying my daughter Emma. This I refused, and gave my reasons for so doing; some of which were,
that he was a stranger, and followed a business that I could not approve; he then left the place. Not
long after this, he returned, and while I was absent from home, carried off my daughter, into the state
of New York, where they were married without my approbation or consent.” Isaac Hale, as quoted in
Howe, 263.
(^17) See n. 11 above.
(^18) JSH 1:33.