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See Ashurst-McGee, “Pathway to Prophethood,” chap. 4.
Ashurst-McGee, Mark. “A Pathway to Prophethood: Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet.” Master’s thesis, Utah State University, 2000.
Historical Introduction to Agreement of Josiah Stowell and Others, 1 Nov. 1825; JS History, vol. A-1, 8.
Fee Bill, ca. 9 Nov. 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A]; Oliver Cowdery, “Letter VIII,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, Oct. 1835, 2:200–201; see also History, 1834–1836, 89.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
An Act for Apprehending and Punishing Disorderly Persons [9 Feb. 1788], Laws of the State of New-York (1813), 1:114.
Laws of the State of New-York, Revised and Passed at the Thirty-Sixth Session of the Legislature, With Marginal Notes and References. 2 Vols. Albany: H. C. Southwick and Company, 1813.
Davies, America Bewitched, 46.
Davies, Owen. America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Waterman, Justice’s Manual, 116–117.
Waterman, Thomas Glasby. The Justice’s Manual: Or, a Summary of the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in the State of New York; Containing a Variety of Practical Forms, Adapted to Cases Civil and Criminal. Binghamton, NY: Morgan & Canoll, 1825.
An Act for Apprehending and Punishing Disorderly Persons [9 Feb. 1788], Laws of the State of New-York (1813), 1:114.
Laws of the State of New-York, Revised and Passed at the Thirty-Sixth Session of the Legislature, With Marginal Notes and References. 2 Vols. Albany: H. C. Southwick and Company, 1813.
Waterman, Justice’s Manual, 117.
Waterman, Thomas Glasby. The Justice’s Manual: Or, a Summary of the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in the State of New York; Containing a Variety of Practical Forms, Adapted to Cases Civil and Criminal. Binghamton, NY: Morgan & Canoll, 1825.
An Act for Apprehending and Punishing Disorderly Persons [9 Feb. 1788], Laws of the State of New-York (1813), 1:114; Waterman, Justice’s Manual, 118.
Laws of the State of New-York, Revised and Passed at the Thirty-Sixth Session of the Legislature, With Marginal Notes and References. 2 Vols. Albany: H. C. Southwick and Company, 1813.
Waterman, Thomas Glasby. The Justice’s Manual: Or, a Summary of the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in the State of New York; Containing a Variety of Practical Forms, Adapted to Cases Civil and Criminal. Binghamton, NY: Morgan & Canoll, 1825.
See Joel K. Noble, Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY, to Jonathan B. Turner, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL, 8 Mar. 1842, in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 4:107. John S. Reed, who represented JS in the 1830 trials, referred to “the crime of Glass Looking.” (John S. Reed, Mexico, NY, to Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, UT, 6 Dec. 1861, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL.)
Vogel, Dan, ed. Early Mormon Documents. 5 vols. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996–2003.
Reed, John S. Letter, Mexico, NY, to Brigham Young, 6 Dec. 1861. Brigham Young Office Files, CHL. CR 1234 1, box 28, fd. 13.
Oliver Cowdery, “Letter VIII,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, Oct. 1835, 2:200–201; see also JS History, 1834–1836, 89.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
The fee bills of the other justices of the peace for Bainbridge—Zechariah Tarble, Levi Bigelow, and James Humphrey—do not include entries for this case. (See Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 4:241–242.)
Vogel, Dan, ed. Early Mormon Documents. 5 vols. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996–2003.
New York’s statute regulating fees permitted constables to charge the county 12½ cents for “taking a defendant into custody on a mittimus,” which was evidently a distinct document from the initial warrant issued in a case. It is unknown how this mittimus was used in this case. (An Act Regulating the Fees of the Several Officers and Ministers of Justice within This State [9 Apr. 1813], Laws of the State of New-York (1813), 2:27, italics in original.)
Laws of the State of New-York, Revised and Passed at the Thirty-Sixth Session of the Legislature, With Marginal Notes and References. 2 Vols. Albany: H. C. Southwick and Company, 1813.
Docket Entry, 20 Mar. 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A]. Three documents listed in the itemized bill in the published Neely docket entry are consistent with De Zeng’s 1826 bill, including the warrant, subpoenas, and mittimus. As De Zeng would not have been involved in taking the complaint, he would not have included that in his list, nor a fee for hearing witness testimonies. The itemized bill in the published docket entry also includes multiple recognizances; how these documents would have factored into the trial is not known. (Fee Bill, 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A]; Docket Entry, 20 Mar. 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A].)
Albert Neely was married to Phebe Pearsall, Emily Pearsall’s aunt. (Pearsall, ed., History and Genealogy of the Pearsall Family, 2:1143–1144, 1151; Tuttle, Reminiscences of a Missionary Bishop, 272.)
Pearsall, Clarence E. History and Genealogy of the Pearsall Family in England and America. 3 vols. San Francisco: H. S. Crocker, 1928.
Tuttle, Daniel S. Reminiscences of a Missionary Bishop. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1906.
“A Document Discovered,” Utah Christian Advocate, Jan. 1886, 1.
Utah Christian Advocate. Salt Lake City. Jan. 1884–Nov. 1887.
Trial Proceedings, Bainbridge, NY, 20 Mar. 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A], in “The Original Prophet,” Fraser’s Magazine, Feb. 1873, 229–230.
“The Original Prophet. By a Visitor to Salt Lake City.” Fraser’s Magazine 7, no. 28 (Feb. 1873): 225–235.
Tuttle, “Mormons,” in Religious Encyclopaedia, 2:1576.
Tuttle, Daniel S. “Mormons.” In A Religious Encyclopaedia: or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology, edited by Philip Schaff, 1575–1581. 2 vols. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1883.
Docket Entry, 20 Mar. 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A]. The copy in Fraser’s omitted Horace Stowell’s testimony, which was in the Religious Encyclopaedia. The Religious Encyclopaedia, however, omitted Neely’s itemized costs. Only the Utah Christian Advocate copy contains both. (Trial Proceedings, Bainbridge, NY, 20 Mar. 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A], in “The Original Prophet,” Fraser’s Magazine, Feb. 1873, 229–230; Tuttle, “Mormons,” in Religious Encyclopaedia, 2:1576.)
“The Original Prophet. By a Visitor to Salt Lake City.” Fraser’s Magazine 7, no. 28 (Feb. 1873): 225–235.
Tuttle, Daniel S. “Mormons.” In A Religious Encyclopaedia: or Dictionary of Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology, edited by Philip Schaff, 1575–1581. 2 vols. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1883.
Some discrepancies include the identity of the complainant (in Purple’s telling, Stowell’s sons brought the complaint rather than his nephew); the content of JS’s statement before Neely, with Purple recounting that JS reviewed how he obtained his seer stone, rather than the specifics of his employment with Stowell; the number of witnesses and the order in which they testified; and finally, the outcome of the case, with Purple relating that JS was discharged rather than convicted.
Reminiscence of William D. Purple, 28 Apr. 1877 [State of New York v. JS–A]; Docket Entry, 20 Mar. 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A]. Josiah Stowell’s testimony in the published Neely docket entry recounted several specific instances in which JS convinced Stowell of JS’s ability to see hidden items with the seer stone. Purple’s article summarized Stowell’s testimony, emphasizing in general terms Stowell’s firm confidence in JS. In both documents, witness Jonathan Thompson described a specific instance of the company digging under JS’s direction that affirmed Thompson’s belief in JS’s abilities.
[Abram W. Benton], “Mormonites,” Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate, 9 Apr. 1831, 120; see also Joel K. Noble, Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY, to Jonathan B. Turner, Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL, 8 Mar. 1842, Springfield, IL in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 4:107. Similarly, Latter-day Saint Josiah Stowell testified in 1830 that “about three years since, prisoner [JS] was put under arrest by an officer at Bainbridge, in Chenango county, for breaking the peace, and that he escaped from the officer and went to Palmyra.” (“Mormonism,” Boston Christian Herald, 19 Sept. 1832, [2].)
[Benton, Abram W.] “Mormonites." Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate2, no. 25 (9 Apr. 1831): 120.
Vogel, Dan, ed. Early Mormon Documents. 5 vols. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996–2003.
Boston Christian Herald. Boston. 1829–1833.
Oliver Cowdery, “Letter VIII,” LDS Messenger and Advocate, Oct. 1835, 2:200–201; see also JS History, 1834–1836, 89.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Reminiscence of William D. Purple, 28 Apr. 1877 [State of New York v. JS–A]; Docket Entry, 20 Mar. 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A]; Waterman, Justice’s Manual, 117. In Neely’s itemized bill for a 15 August 1827 case, he charged Chenango County twenty-five cents for creating a “Record of Conviction.” (Albert Neely, Statement of Account for Chenango Co., NY, 19 Dec. 1826–25 July 1827, photocopy, Chenango Co., NY, Historian’s Office Correspondence Files, CHL.)
Waterman, Thomas Glasby. The Justice’s Manual: Or, a Summary of the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in the State of New York; Containing a Variety of Practical Forms, Adapted to Cases Civil and Criminal. Binghamton, NY: Morgan & Canoll, 1825.
Historian’s Office. Correspondence Files, 1856–1926. CHL.
JS is not listed in the Chenango County register of names of those placed in the bridewell in 1826. In addition, the New York statute regulating constable fees included a separate entry for “conveying a person to gaol [jail],” a charge that De Zeng did not include in his bill. (Madsen, “Being Acquitted,” 89; An Act Regulating the Fees of the Several Officers and Ministers of Justice within This State [9 Apr. 1813], 27; Fee Bill, 1826 [State of New York v. JS–A].)
Madsen, Gordon A. “Being Acquitted of a ‘Disorderly Person’ Charge in 1826.” In Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith’s Legal Encounters, edited by Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 71–92. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2014.
Laws of the State of New-York, Revised and Passed at the Thirty-Sixth Session of the Legislature, With Marginal Notes and References. 2 Vols. Albany: H. C. Southwick and Company, 1813.
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