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For example, Hymn 15 changed Isaac Watts's Joy to the World from a song about Christmas to a song about the return of Christ (see Joy to the World (Phelps)). As the family worked, Connecticut and Pennsylvania soon resolved their competing land claims, and on April 4, 1789, the state of Pennsylvania sold the Hale and Lewis farms to George Ruper as part of a large tract of land that included much of the valley.94b Pennsylvania separated the valley from Tioga Township in March 1791, and made the entire valley Willingborough Township, a part of Luzerne County.95 As Isaac and Elizabeth Hale settled in Willingborough Township, Ruper sold most of his land to Tench Francis, a merchant in Philadelphia, who became their new landlord. J. Blackman noted that the region is filled with sources of salt, Emily Blackman, Susquehanna County, in William H. Egle, ed.,An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania(Harrisburg: De Witt C. Goodrich & Co., 1876), 1019. If she attended a Girls school, the only one in her vicinity was the Female Seminary that operated a few miles west of her parents home in Great Bend Township. While Comfort did not elaborate on the details of the Hale family exodus, or the apparent religious conflict he had with the family, the following spring he wrote to his son, Jesse Hale Ward Hale and Reuben Hale moved last season out on the Alegany and David Hale went this winter the last of sleighing to the same place and also Daniel Westfall moved near the same place the fore part of winter. [11] Untangling the church's debts and property from Emma's personal debts and property proved to be a long and complicated process for Emma and her family. Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,36; John Comfort to Silas Comfort, Harmony, September 25, 1847, John Comfort Correspondence, George Fisk Comfort Papers, Syracuse University Special Collections. Photograph by Mark L. Staker. 93. 95. 23. The valley was essentially a hunting preserve, but there was a small settlement on the east end near where three apple trees stood that formed the rallying point and headquarters of all the Indians in the neighborhood. Stocker,Centennial History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 543. The Register of Pastors in the First Presbyterian Church of Hallstead, Susquehanna County Historical Society, lists him as continuing to serve until the installation of Oliver Hill as Pastor on August 13, 1814. This continued a struggle Joseph Smith faced for several years over how his taxes were determined. Against the wishes of Emma's father, Emma and Joseph married on January 18, 1827. Stow settled on the outskirts of the Old Oquago village where Buck and Hale first met. George Peck (Early Methodism, 33233) related a story as he heard it from Nathaniel Lewis where Nathaniel asked to try Joseph Smiths spectacles to translate strange tongues from Adam ClarkesCommentary and Critical Notes on the Holy Bibleinto English. Wills and Probate Inventories, Book 1, 21213, December 23, 1838, Susquehanna County, Montrose, Pennsylvania. It was while here that Joseph Smith began translating the Book of Mormon from the gold plates. The Hale family used fine mochaware bowls and mugs that included eye dazzling swirls of green and brown mixed with vibrant oranges, blues, and other colors, as evidence the family could afford the best ceramics available on the market and not just local product. He believed that Smith was not a good match for his daughter and that he would not be able to provide for her financially. 193. Emma wanted William Marks, president of the church's central stake, to assume the church presidency, but Marks favored Sidney Rigdon for the role. http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/george-washington-s-incredible-garbage-dump. She was also directed to compile a book of hymns for the Church, and she was warned to continue in a spirit of meekness, and beware of pride. (D&C 25:1113.). 69. I have used the early name adopted by the early settlers throughout this history to refer to the valley in the eastern portion of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. She initiated contact with her family. Paul,History of Wells,3334. During that year, Buck was charged with teaching false doctrine, leading some members of his congregation to try removing him from his position. Shortly after the couple rode away from the hiding place, a small mob came over and searched the wagon for the golden plates. Isaac Weld, Jun.,Travels Through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797(London: John Stockdale, 1807), 2:34245. 65. Her mother, Elizabeth, was too ill to travel. She described one of these homes in which achinkin the wall was its only window, the panes being irregular bits of glass fitted in as well as they could be, and in dark weather it was necessary to light a candle to do the washing.. Sugar houses were specifically listed as taxable operations, but the intent was to tax commercial enterprises instead of family operations. 161. He immediately commenced paying his addresses to her.17 Emmas parents saw in her the same example of grace, refinement, and gentility they hoped their home could give. After the half starved Colbert ate with a nasty dirty woman and her nasty children, he established a black class in the valley west of Willingborough and then headed home.182 Methodist classes were loose associations that gathered for Bible study and provided organized service to help the needy in a community, and the white members of the community typically organized classes independently from their black members.183 This class would have operated without formal support or direction and would not have taken religion over the mountain to the Susquehanna Valley. As a native of Cape Cod and a South Sea man, born to Mary and Gershom Lewis in Gilford, Connecticut, Nathaniel Lewis grew up in shipping and worked for a time as a sailor.63 He also lived on the Connecticut coast within view of Gardiners Island where Captain William Kidd purportedly buried stolen silver before moving to Block Island to negotiate his surrender for piracy. ]For details about David Hales store, see Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger, 77112. The letter has one thousand eight hundred andthirteenfourteen written which is likely a correction because of a wrong year added just after the change on January 1. See Timothy Pickering to Levi and James Westfall, June 15, 1825, Susquehanna County Property Deeds, 5: 41819; Samuel and Mary Hodgdon to James Westfall, April 21, 1823, Susquehanna County Property Deeds, 23: 61516; Israel and Patty Skinner to Joseph McKune, Susquehanna County Property Deeds, 23:616. Mrs. Arthur Webb argued the name meant crooked river, but she does not provide a source for her conclusions and writes too late to have worked through a native speaker, Mrs. Arthur Webb. A whole list of rules about how to speak, listen, and interact with parents, social superiors, and the public in general had developed as part of proper and refined life.301 Unless a young man had read the popular etiquette books of the day, he was unlikely to know all of these rules. Emma's father, Isaac Hale died 11 January 1839. His daughter recalled they had a white pine table, some trenchers to eat out of with a few dishes set upon a shelf, four chairs, two bedsteads, a chest of drawers with legs, two children, a dog, and a cat. Trial Notes Scribe A.. Isaac and Elizabeth Hales children all married, and each initially settled on or near the Hale farm. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,35. 110. They most frequently got it from Spanish treasure ships. Emma delivered a baby son who died soon after birth on June15, 1828, when she nearly died herself. 250. . 1833, June 14, 1832. Despite the difficulties of poverty, displacement, and persecution, Emma and Joseph maintained a deep love for and bond with each other. B. Wilkinson dated the initial settlement of that valley to 1788, (Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,110112). Other sermons he listed under the name Isaac Hales as having preached in the Hale home were based on the texts, Luke 11:28, Rom. Emma publicly condemned polygamy and denied any involvement by her husband. It was Potters congregation during Isaacs childhood that Jonathan Edwards had tried to call to repentance when he preached his famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The sermon had not taken then, and the congregation had not adopted Edwards conservative stance when Joseph and Antha were married, but the Reverend Potter still had gone too far when he married a black man and a white woman. The artifacts have been placed in bags and marked storage boxes and can be accessed in the collections of the LDS Church History Museum. Let come what will, youve got to bear ittaint no use to flinch. But his observation captured a difference in attitude between the working men and women along the Susquehanna River and the gentry in comfortable Philadelphia homes. At the time of the marriage, Bidamon was the father of two daughters (his two sons had died) and Emma was the mother of five surviving children. Anne wife of Thomas SMITH died 24 March 1873 aged 51 years. 167. 282. They listened to one sermon in the forenoon, and then came back to the canoe and ate dinner, then went back to second service; Daniel Buck was minister. Daniel Buck settled his young family in the middle of the Susquehanna Valley at Painted Rock, a site later known as Red Rock, because Native American inhabitants had used red paint to depict various figures, apparently turning the site into a ritual setting or sacred location.104 This was also the location of the Indian burying-ground in the area.105 The land at Painted Rock was not good farmland and before the railroad came through the area it consisted largely of a picturesque blend of massive freestanding rock formations and steep cliffs. But his response to their home may not have been quite as exuberant as was his mothers when she visited it three years later, since she was more attuned to its elaborate character and what it did for ones place in the community. (an old stone face down beside 140) 141. In June 1844, the press of the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper published by disaffected former church members, was destroyed by the town marshal on orders from the town council (of which Joseph was a member). Wife of Joseph Smith Jr. and Latter Day Saint leader (18041879), "Elect lady" and the early church, 18301839, The workers were searching for the supposed silver mine for. Elder Lewis [prayed], Send the mind of the people up the river down to me, and the people down the river (the Presbyterians) may go to hell, and I care not. Mrs. Stid, at the same meeting, [prayed]: O Lord, take Capt. During the earliest settlement period or before, the oldest and most commonly used name for the villagewhere Daniel Buck and Isaac Hale first met, Oquago, was attached to the mountain where Hale settled. Emma Hale never saw her parents again after the Kirtland era. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,105; First Presbyterian Church Records, Hallstead, Pennsylvania. Robert H. Rose to Isaac Hale, Deeds, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 11:444. Windsor Bridge Company, Subject Files, Broome County Historical Society, Binghamton, New York; Trial Notes of Scribe A, Transcription of the Testimony Given at the Trial of Jason Treadwell, August, 1824, Historic Site Files, LDS Church History Library, hereafter CHL. As "protecting the morals of the community" became her mission, Smith supported the public confession of sins; on this subject, Smith called the women of Nauvoo to repentance with "all the frankness of a Methodist exhorter. Thou shalt see many days, yea, the Lord will spare thee till thou art satisfied, for thou shalt see thy Redeemer. Collection of the LDS Church History, John Osterhout cabin, 15 x 22 feet, built around 1800 in Wolf Hollow near the. Mark Ashurst-McGee argues that as a result of the success Methodism found in America, religious leaders sought to distance it from folk religious practices such as dowsing in order to make themselves socially established. Mark Ashurst-McGee, Zion Rising: Joseph Smiths Early Social and Political Thought (PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2008, 70; see also Marvin Hill, Money-Digging Folklore and the Beginnings of Mormonism: An Interpretive Suggestion,BYU Studies24 (Fall 1984): 48486; and D. Michael Quinn,Early Mormonism and the Magic World View(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 31. 210. 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But he may have also selected the site because of its sacred nature. The following year, when Isaac Hale and John Hilborn were assessors, the Hale sugar house was dropped from the assessment and Isaac was taxed for 300 pounds of sugarsignificantly more than any other individual in the township. The amiable Miss Fanny Winters married Benjamin Comfort on May 12, 1829,The Susquehanna Register4, no. Isaac Hale, son of Reuben Hale & Diantha Ward, was born Mar. 131. A local member of the Presbyterian congregation Zachariah Tarble was named after his uncle Zachariah who was captured by Indians as a young boy, along with a brother and sister, and taken into Canada where he became a Mohawk chiefa source of family pride.54 The younger Zachariah Tarble became a local Justice of the Peace and performed the marriage of Emma Hale and Joseph Smith Jr. His cousin Thomas Tarble married Daniel Bucks daughter Mary and worked on Abel Stowells farm.55. The first Latter-day Saint hymnbook was printed in Kirtland in 1835 under Emma Smiths name. 201. As the foliage colors warmed and deepened, Hale joined his efforts with Buck at Ouaquaga where he hunted for meat while Buck gathered frost-bitten corn growing unattended in the fields. Collection of the LDS. When the deeds were all registered and the debts paid, the 130 1/2 acre Hale farm included the 90 acre Rose section and 40 1/2 acre Carmalt section and was likely a subset of the original 150 acres for which Hale was taxed in 1798. The value listed for the Hales under house jumped from $20 to $98 when the additional structure was included in 1819 but the value only dropped to $40 in 1822. 141. Text Size:general jonathan krantz hoi4 remove general traits. Even the elite where Isaac lived as a boy put resources into discovering precious metal. Among the ruins, Hale met Daniel Buck, an army surgeon and officer during the recent war. 20. A wing (no longer extant) was added to this house, which Emma operated as a hotel. The other families were those of John Hilborn, Martin Lane, and John Comfort. His carefully drawn plans for each floor of the home and elevation sketches for the building exterior depicted two main rooms with a typical window arrangement of two at the front of each room separated by a front door on the main level and five windows on the upper level in a common pattern for the period usually described by scholars as an I-house and sometimes described popularly as, five, four, and a door. While the Pickering home included its stairway access at the rear, and had a third floor half-story level, because the Hale home rear was added later, it had the more common stairway pattern at the front of the home which divided two equal halves, and the 1857 rough sketch of the home depicts a two-story structure. [11] The Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia records that Emma Smith "filled [the position] with marked distinction as long as the society continued to hold meetings in that city [Nauvoo]". Last Will and Testament of Isaac Hale, Susquehanna County, Pa., Wills and Administrations, 18121921, December 23, 1838, 1:21213. The following spring of 1788 Jonathan Bennett built a log home, and David Hale recalled his father bought an improvement of Jonathan Bennett.47 Hale first occupied the farm that year, and Bennett settled with his two sons and two sons-in-law on a farm further downriver.48 If Bennett sold the land for what he paid for it to get out of a Susquehanna Land Company contract, Hale purchased 150 acres at twenty-five cents an acre.49 His log home, if Bennett built one like his fathers, was constructed of yellow pine logs, hewed, and pointed with lime mortar, and lined on the inside.50 Lime mortar was difficult to get in that remote area, however, and so the Hale home was probably mud chinked. The similarities in name, location, and activities can easily lead to confusion between the two men. The scenery, sir! The massifs were reminiscent of their Vermont environs. While Hale and Lewis worked on the Pickering property, they associated with Colonel Pickerings son, Tim Pickering. His large farm was on the best land in the valley and others grew significantly less produce. The best candidate for a residence for the treasure diggers is the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale log home. Some of the survivors of this massacre fled north to Canada and fought for the British in Vermont. Matthew Kirk and Corey McQuinn of Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. in Rensselaer, New York directed the excavation of portions of the Hale home site during 2004, and again from 2010-2012 for the Historic Sites Division of the LDS Church History Department. Together they weathered the financial collapse and threats against Josephs life in Kirtland, Ohio; the persecution of Church members in Missouri; and the separation imposed by Josephs imprisonment in Liberty Jail. Paul,History of Wells,33, 37, notes one of the Lewis sons became an acceptable local preacher before he mentions the conversion of John and Levi Lewis in 1789. 180. Approx. 285. The earlier Hale log home still stood on Isaacs property where the Stowell work party likely stayed. Zenanah Gilbert, Diary, September 2, 1810, Special Collections, Dickinson College. He concluded on February 29, 1836, Religion at a very Low ebb with us little or no spirit in the members and of course a great indifference among the congregation. John Comfort, letter to Dear Children, Harmony, February 29, 1836. 121. Robert H. Rose, letter to Miss Jane Hodge, August 20, 1808. The tax valuations of log homes in the valley tended to fall into specific ranges that suggest they had common elements. On October 2, 1812, the men in the valley gathered in Lanesville at the home of John Comfortthe home Isaac Hale had built for Pickeringand they elected Comfort as Harmony Townships Tax Assessor with Hale as his assistant.237 The two men quickly visited the farms and workshops in Harmony, Pennsylvania, relying on detailed standardized instructions to determine a value for each familys property.238 Isaac Hale taxed himself in this first assessment for two homes, the original log home and a new frame home. It is possible these early diggings continued as time permitted but most of the focus in the valley was on settling the land and making a living. Horses, cows, and oxen were taxed, but mules, sheep, goats, and pigs were not. after I went into the house I saw him troting through th apple tresI saw some people in the road and supposed he was hurrying to get up with themit was pretty near nightnumber of persons came into my house appeared much disturbed, much talk about the murder . Mrs. George A. Perkins,Early Times on the Susquehanna,(Binghamton: Malette & Reid, 1870), 2021. . Joseph began his first efforts translating the Book of Mormon in the Hale home and found protection as he began his work. . Such were the circumstances on the farm during the early settlement period as well. While in Kirtland, Emma's feelings about temperance and the use of tobacco[11] reportedly influenced her husband's decision to pray about dietary questions. 5. [11] It was titled A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints[13] and contained 90 hymn texts but no music. Margaret McColum placed an advertisement in the paper in 1824 in response to her husbands previous advertisement claiming she had left his bed and board. Margaret quipped, ELIAS never had a bed; and as to eatables, he never furnished any except Beans & Jonny Cake without Salt; which cannot, with any propriety, be denominated board. Error Corrected,Susquehanna County Republican, June 29, 1824, 3, italics in original. 152. After his dismissal, Pickering decided he wanted to retire from public life, move to the country, and become a gentleman farmer. George Peck,Wyoming: Its History, Stirring Incidents, and Romantic Adventures(New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1858), 193. Copies can be purchased by visiting,http://mormonhistoricsites.org/subscribe-to-our-publications/. Isaac claims, "Smith stated to me he had given up what he called 'glass-looking,' and that he expected and was willing to work hard for a living." (Isaac Hale, father of Emma Hale Smith, History of the Church, Vol.1. If it was twelve years before his Rodsmen were organized into a congregation then he was excluded about 1788 or a little earlier. Isaac Hale mentioned his log house in trial testimony recorded verbatim by two of the three judges presiding at the trial of Jason Treadwell. Bucks neighbors later wrote of those foundations being evidence of the presence and work of civilized man in it [the valley] before any known settlement of it.107The foundation was grown up with trees and only became evident when the land was cleared and plowed.108 The site has never been examined by archaeologists to evaluate if any evidence remains of what the men found. Other sources give November 20 as the birth date, Lorraine Cook White, ed.,The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002), 23: 140; Grace E. Pember Wood,A History of the Town of Wells, Vermont from its Settlement with Family and Biographical Sketches and Incidents(N.p. which was then sanctioned by the government.69 Nathaniel Lewis reenlisted in the navy at Sea Brook, Connecticut, where he served until July 22, 1763.70 But after his father, Gershom, died in Litchfield Township October 18, 1766, 27-year-old Nathaniel returned to Guilford to marry Esther Tuttle January 16, 1767. Emmas patriarchal blessing, given on 9 December 1834 by her father-in-law, Joseph Smith, Sr., presents important information concerning Emmas contribution to the Restoration, how the Lord viewed Emma, and what he promised her. Joseph and Emma lived for about two months in Emma's childhood home before moving to a house nearby. For example, when the company of cartographer F. W. Beers made his map of the township in 1872, he marked the Foundations of 1st Morman (sic) Temple on what had been Jacob/Joseph Smith land. Hartgen, Report, Historic Sites, Church Historians Office, 2005; Hartgen, Archeological Field Investigations and Addenda 1 and 2; Kirk and McQuinn, personal communication to author. After Ruper sold his land to Tench Francis; however, the Hales clearly knew who owned their land.

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