Footnotes

1. [1]

   Knight, Reminiscences, 2; Knight, Autobiographical Sketch, 1; Knight, History, 3–4.

   Knight, Joseph, Sr. Reminiscences, no date. CHL. MS 3470.

   Knight, Joseph, Jr. Autobiographical Sketch, 1862. CHL. MS 286.

   Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.

2. [2]

   See Historical Introduction to Revelation, May 1829–B [D&C 12].

3. [3]

   Knight, Reminiscences, 7.

   Knight, Joseph, Sr. Reminiscences, no date. CHL. MS 3470.

4. [4]

   See Historical Introduction to Revelation, Apr. 1830–A [D&C 23:1–2].

5. [5]

   Shortly after this revelation, JS held a meeting at Knight’s home in Colesville and gave a similar commandment to Knight’s son Newel. The younger Knight “said that he would try and take up his cross, and pray vocally during meeting” but then was unable to follow through. When the group “again met together, he rather excused himself.” The next day, “he retired into the woods, where (according to his own accoount afterwards) he made several attempts to pray, but could scarcely do so, feeling that he had not done his duty, but that he should have prayed in the presence of others.” This led to one of the earliest recorded miracles of the church, when, according to his history, JS cast out the devil that had possessed Newel Knight. (JS History, vol. A-1, 40.)