Item Detail
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2551
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74
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English
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Joseph Knight's Recollection of Early Mormon History
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BYU Studies
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Autumn 1976
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17
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29-39
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"Joseph Knight, Sr., was born 3 November 1772 at Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1809 he moved to Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York and two years later to Colesville, Broome County, New York where he remained for nineteen years. He owned a farm, a gristmill and carding machine, and according to his son, Newel, "was not rich, yet possessed enough of this world's goods to secure to himself and family the necessaries and comforts of life." His family consisted of three sons and four daughters. While Joseph Smith was living in Harmony, Pennsylvania he was occasionally employed by Joseph Knight. Such was the friendship that developed between these two men that the younger Joseph confided in his employer the circumstances of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, and the elder sent provisions from time to time for the sustenance of his friend during the translation work. When Joseph Smith obtained the Book of Mormon plates in September 1827, Knight was visiting in the Smith home in Manchester. According to Lucy Smith, her son used Knight's horse and carriage as his means of conveyance on that occasion. Although not numbered among those present at the organization of the Church in April 1830, Joseph Knight was baptized in June of that year. His family formed the nucleus of a small branch of the Church in Colesville, New York. In 1831 he moved with the Colesville Saints to Kirtland, Ohio, and a few months later continued with them to Independence, Missouri, where he helped pioneer the Latter-day Saint settlement of that state. Joseph Knight died on 3 February 1847 at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa during the Mormon Exodus from Illinois." [Publisher's abstract]
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A Chronology of Joseph Smith
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
'All My Endeavors to Preserve Them' : Protecting the Plates in Palmyra, 22 September-December 1827
American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History
An Examination of the 1829 'Articles of the Church of Christ' in Relation to Section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants
"A Uniformity So Complete" : Early Mormon Angelology
Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt : Revised and Enhanced Edition
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Changing Revelatory Messages : A Mormon Example
Close Friends as Witnesses : Joseph Smith and the Joseph Knight Families
Conquest of the Heart : Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio
David Hale's Store Ledger : New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon
Digging in Cumorah : Reclaiming Book of Mormon narratives
Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon
Eighth Witness : The Biography of John Whitmer
Event or Process? How “the Chamber of Old Father Whitmer” Helps Us Understand Priesthood Restoration
Eyewitness Accounts of the Restoration
"For the Sum of Three Thousand Dollars"
How Joseph Smith Translated the Book of Mormon : Evidence from the Original Manuscript
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith and the United Firm : The Growth and Decline of the Church's First Master Plan of Business and Finance, Ohio and MIssouri, 1832-1834
Joseph Smith at the Veil: Significant Ritual, Symbolism, and Temple Influence at Latter-day Saint Beginnings
Joseph Smith's 1823 Vision : Uncovering the Angel Message
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Joseph Smith's Many Histories
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Katharine Smith Salisbury's Recollections of Joseph's Meetings with Moroni
Let's Talk About the Law of Consecration
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Lucy Mack Smith's 1829 Letter to Mary Smith Pierce
Manchester as the Site of the Organization of the Church on April 6, 1830
Martin Harris : Mormonism's Early Convert
Martin Harris : Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism : From Its New York Beginnings
Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
"Myself . . . I Consecrate to the God of Heaven" : Twenty Affidavits of Consecration in Nauvoo, June-July 1842
No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America
Old Mormon Nauvoo and Southeastern Iowa
Oliver Cowdery : Scribe, Elder, Witness : Essays from BYU Studies and FARMS
One Face of the Hero : In Search of the Mythological Joseph Smith
Parting the Veil : The Visions of Joseph Smith
Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion
Persuading Men and Women to Join in Celestial Marriage
Priesthood Restoration Documents
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
"Read This I Pray Thee" : Martin Harris and the Three Wise Men of the East
Repicturing the Restoration: New Art to Expand Our Understanding
Revelations in Context: The Stories Behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants
Revelations of the Restoration : A Commentary on the Doctrine & Covenants & Other Modern Revelations
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. The Standard of Truth 1815–1846.
"Securing" the Prophet's Copyright in the Book of Mormon : Historical and Legal Context for the So-called Canadian Copyright Revelation
Studies in Scripture
The Anthon Transcripts and the Translation of the Book of Mormon : Studying It Out in the Mind of Joseph Smith
The Book of Mormon : A Very Short Introduction
The Forgotten Story of Nauvoo Celestial Marriage
The Inner Joseph Smith
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 5 : October 1835–January 1838
The Journey of a People : The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Pearl of Greatest Price : Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
The Peter Whitmer Log Home : Cradle of Mormonism
The Power of Evidence in the Nurturing of Faith
The Priority of Mosiah : A Prelude to Book of Mormon Exegesis
The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith : A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants
The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His Mother
The Spectacles, the Stone, the Hat, and the Book : A Twenty-first Century Believer's View of the Book of Mormon Translation
The Worlds of Joseph Smith : A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress
Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon
Understanding the Legal Aspects to Financing the Book of Mormon
Visions of Joseph Smith -
A Study of the Origins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816-1831
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations
By the Gift and Power of God
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
The Anthon Transcript : People, Primary Sources, and Problems