Shortly after Daniel Bucks Congregationalist community fell into disarray, and the Quakers began to establish themselves in the valley, MethodismAmericas fastest growing religion at the timefirst arrived in northeastern Pennsylvania. https://byustudies.byu.edu/PDFViewer.aspx?title=hidden&linkURL=53.3StakerJensen_Extended-5351ecc6-b7ef-451f-ad91-b4b78036d422.pdf. Although he did not purchase his own land, by the end of that year he was taxed for 54 acres without cattle or taxable houses. Related Topics: Joseph and Emma Hale Smith Family, Hymns, Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. This local awakening had more in common with the Second Great Awakening that would begin in a few years, however, since it attracted the unchurched in the area until nearly all the families in the valley offered morning and evening prayers.168 Both the Hale and Lewis families were caught up in this awakening, and the parents took their one-year-old sons, Alva Hale and Levi Lewis, to Buck for baptism.169, John B. Buck, a grandson of Daniel Buck, recalled years later, after the valleys Congregationalists had transformed themselves into Presbyterians, how during the 1790s the congregation, was scattered up and down the river, in cabins. Joseph boarded at the nearby home of Isaac Hale, where he met Emma, Isaac's twenty-year old daughter. Anderson,Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale, 303. Isaacs distinction between my house and near my residence is similar to a later account by one of Emmas Lewis cousins whose family was also taxed for two houses on their property. The first large scale sawmill in the valley began operation in 1809.239Since the Hales were under pressure from Pickering to build the Lewis home in 1809, and Methodist meetings were held in the Hale home as early as 1810, it is likely the Hale family finished building their own new frame home in early 1810, the same year they gained legal title to their property. 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. The earlier Hale log home still stood on Isaacs property where the Stowell work party likely stayed. It is clear the two men influenced each other. There is some evidence that Crawford may have been correct. http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/george-washington-s-incredible-garbage-dump. But he is never mentioned in later accounts of Rodsmen activity. 307. Governors, academic leaders, businessmen, country farmers, and poor day laborers were all equally interested in finding hidden wealth in late eighteenth-century America and were equally disappointed in their failure to find anything of value. 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. In July 1830 the Lord outlined her mission, in a revelation: Thou art an elect lady, whom I have called. isaac hale father of emma smith. John Comfort, one of the wealthiest men in the valley, a close friend of Isaac Hale and a member of the same Methodist congregation, regularly reported his success to a son in letters. Perhaps because their public discussions of religion differed from what was commonly accepted, their neighbors described them as religious agitators. Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale Home Key Points of Interest The home currently on the property is a reconstruction, built by the church in 2015 Emma Hale Smith, Joseph's wife, grew up here with her parents, Isaac and Elizabeth Hale Joseph first met Emma when he and his father boarded here while working for Josiah Stowell nearby Michael Morses property consisted of 27 acres of unimproved land and a log home on the Oquago mountain foothills at the north end of the Hale farm. Isaac Hale, Willingborough Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States Government 1798 Direct Tax, Volume 374. could neither write nor dictate a coherent well-worded letter, during that early period.304 He may have dictated some of his letters to Stowell family members who wrote for him in hopes of improving his prospects with Emma. He lamented the state of religion in letter after letter for more than a decade. Spots not far from the back doors of kitchens were considered prime dumping grounds back then, George Washingtons Incredible Garbage Dump,Popular Archaeology,11 (June 2013): 1,http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2013/article/george-washington-s-incredible-garbage-dump. Isaac Hale, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Census, 1830. (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013), 2:33138; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Womens Rights in Early Mormonism, 18351870 (New York: AlfredA. Knopf, 2017), 8696. Ritchie,Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates, 175. She would eventually bear nine children and adopt two others, four of whom died at birth or shortly after, and two who died as toddlers. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The first Latter-day Saint hymnbook was printed in Kirtland in 1835 under Emma Smiths name. He married Elizabeth Lewis on September 20, 1790, two months before her twenty-third birthday.91 Isaac and Elizabeth Hale took Nathaniel and Sarah Lewis, along with Sarahs mother and her eight-year-old sister, Lurena Cole, and quickly left for Pennsylvania since they would travel over two hundred miles to their new home barely ahead of the winter weather using a small, single ox drawn cart to carry all their goods with those of the family members that accompanied them.92 When the Hale and Lewis families arrived in the Susquehanna Valley, winter had already arrived and the struggle for survival began. He was hunting deer and when near this place saw a young Panther about half grown standing on a fallen tree. Soon after this happened, Martin Harris informed me that he must have a greater witness, and said that he had talked with Joseph about it -- Joseph informed him that he could not, or durst not show him the plates, but that he (Joseph) would go into the woods where the Book of Plates was, and that after he came back, Harris should follow his track in the snow, and find the Book, and examine it for himself. Caleb Carmalt & wife to Isaac Hale, July 31, 1833, Deeds, Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. and visited at the house of Isaac Hale, Joe Smith's father-in-law, when she was seventeen years old. Isaac Hale said, After I came home in the afternoon ^ of 12 may^ [1824] from the inquest saw Jason near my house he was siting on the fence with my sons, I passed over the fence and took a turn amongst some apple trees and came back close to where he was siting on the fenceI said to him I have seen a most shocking sight today have seen a man that has been murdered . He was a member of the Army. The tune existed in American folklife earlier than the comic opera and may have made its way to Shuckburgh through another source, but the connection of the two would have been apparent to many Pennsylvanians. He had no other wife but me; nor did he to my knowledge ever have. If the Hale home included wallpaper it would have impressed.246 The Hale home became a civic center and a church as it was used for a variety of meetings.247 The Hale family left remnants of a high quality tea pot made of fine Jakefield pottery, a style of ceramics used by English royalty roughly during the second half of the eighteenth-century (17401790). Even in his old age, Nathaniel Lewis was referred to by John Comfort on occasion as old Brother Lewis. John Comfort to Silas Comfort, Harmony, January 17, 1840. Chaffee, who wrote after Nathaniel Lewiss death, still referred to him as a local deacon, but also wrote that John Hilborn advised Lewis to procure a license to preach in conforming with the rules of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Lewis being a firm believer in the doctrines of Methodism and fully competent to teach. Stone hoe used by Onandaga women to grow corn, found on Hale Farm. [citation needed] As she had in Kirtland, Emma Smith lead "the work of boarding and clothing the men engaged in building [the Nauvoo temple]". Several decades later, in 1825 Isaacs sons Jesse and Ward bought the Traves sawmill, and the illiterate John and Mercy Travis both signing their X for the transaction.143 Some of the millers, sawyers and workmen of these mills were among the earliest converts to Mormonism.144. Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon, and W. Curtis Monts, Water Transportation on the Susquehanna,Wyoming Historical and Geological Society23 (1970): 2139. It was while here that Joseph Smith began translating the Book of Mormon from the gold plates. Emma thou art blessed of the Lord, for thy faithfulness and truth, thou shalt be blessed with thy husband, and rejoice in the glory which shall come upon him. Blackman noted Elizabeth Hale was for fifty years a consistent member of the Methodist church (Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103). Stocker,Centennial History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 543. Land use of area. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter, February 23, 1838. 6 Peter Ingersoll (ca 1789-1867) 7 Alva Hale (1795-1881) 298. 214. : Harvard University Press, 1986), 168, 173, 22932. The hunters came to trade, to sell deer meat, bear meat, wild turkeys, and the like, and to exchange the skins of wild animals for such commodities, as they wished. She remembered they often had a good time. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. See also, Mark Ashurst-McGee, A Pathway to Prophethood: Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet, (masters thesis, Utah State University, 2000); Dan Vogel, The Locations of Joseph Smiths Early Treasure Quests,Dialogue27 (Fall 1994): 20407. Room in the Taylor (later Munson) Tavern (with original paneling) where Francis, Asbury likely slept. 7 Elizabeth Hale in a kind comfortable & proper manner during her life, find her meat, Drink Washing & lodging suitable & convenient for a person who so richly deserves kind treatment.128Hale was an attentive husband to the end. The best circumstantial argument for the Hale family using their log home briefly as rental property comes immediately after the 1825 tax assessment when Isaac Hale no longer pays taxes for the log home but Jeriah Mumford & Co. comes into the valley and rents four homes. Along with what Comfort perceived as religious decline, economic decline settled in their valley contributing to an exodus of many of the valleys second generation. Diantha Ward was the mother of Isaac Hale. After the Buck difficulty, instead of nearly all the families being pious, not but two or three were to be found entitled to that sacred epithet.175 The community still gathered for social interaction on the Sabbath, but they held their Sunday meetings in the local log schoolhouse and read from Thomas Paines Age of Reasoninstead of the Bible. Even though Rose was wealthy and from the Philadelphia elite, he was still influenced by popular culture of his day which suggests the cultural context of the Endless Mountains where the Hale family lived. Isaac Hale may have also gotten his interest elsewhere rather than in Wells since the practice was so widespread in America at the time. This may help explain why Isaac Hale purchased less land than he occupied in 1798. He took down his gun, shot the deer, and after dressing it, sent portions to his neighbors. Joseph Smith Jr., who was a passive employee of Stowell, said, I was put to board with a Mr. Isaac Hale, of that place,JSP, H1:236. Marjorie Catlin Roehm,The Letters of George Catlin and His Family: A Chronicle of the American West(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 810. 170. Emma Smith letter to Joseph Smith, Mar.7, 1839, in Joseph Smith Letterbook 2, 37, josephsmithpapers.org. 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. ; Smith and his father boarded with Isaac Hale in 1825 while working on Josiah Stowell's mining project. Two days after the babys birth, Colonel Pickerings good friend Alexander Hamilton was killed in his famous duel with Aaron Burr. Photograph by Mark L. Staker. See page 63 of the extended online version of the article by Mark Lyman Staker and Robin Scott Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon,BYU Studies,accessed April 10, 2015,https://byustudies.byu.edu/PDFViewer.aspx?title=hidden&linkURL=53.3StakerJensen_Extended-5351ecc6-b7ef-451f-ad91-b4b78036d422.pdf. While Hale family members continued to participate in these meetings, some members of the family may have been among the many backsliders in the valley. He did much of his hunting on Turkey Hill, across the river southwest of his home, and in the surrounding mountains. 50. Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing, 1991. 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. . He also made arrangements with my son Alva Hale, to go to Palmyra, and move his (Smith's) furniture &c. to this place. Willingborough Township, 1798 Direct Tax. A proper young lady or gentleman was to write to a slight acquaintance in the third person, was not to write in a frank, friendly style, and was not to keep letters confidential from his or her parents.303 Emma likely showed her father Josephs courting letters, and Isaac Hales evaluation of his abilities was likely similar to that of Emma, who noted, Joseph Smith . Hiland Paul,History of Wells, Vermont for the First Century after its Settlement; with Biographical Sketches by Robert Parks, Esq. We will do it, said Hail; we will fix the stones, so that Charles, when grown up, if he should come this way, may find the spot where his fathers body was laid. These words were uttered with so much affection and respect for the deceased as showed how greatly your brother was beloved.163 Colonel Pickering wrote to his son Henry, Mr. When Mumford left Harmony Township in 1831, the 434 acres of unseated lands were initially listed again under Joseph Smith then Joseph was crossed out and Jacob was written above it. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,119. If anyone was engaged in it [the Rodsmens treasure digging activities], it must have been the old gentleman, Oliver Cowderys father, she surmised. The first of Isaac and Elizabeth Hales children to leave were those daughters who had married husbands from outside the community. Francis Asbury, Journal July 11, 1807, cited in George Peck,Early Methodism,154. 43. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,95. Thomas Houghton,Royal Institutions: Being Proposals for Articles to Establish and Confirm Laws, Liberties, and Customs of Silver and Gold Mines to All the Kings Subjects(London: Daniel Poplar, 1694), A23,68. She became a physical witness of the plates, reporting that she felt them through a cloth, traced the pages through the cloth with her fingers, heard the metallic sound they made as she moved them, and felt their weight. 194. Saved to reddit here. The aging parents continued to maintain the farm, but after the 18201822 remodel of their home there were no apparent material changes to their circumstances for their remaining years. Vermont war hero Ethan Allen, who helped create Vermont from New York and New Hampshire, had agreed in late 1785 to travel there the following spring with a detachment of Green Mountain boys and create a new state from the land.28 Although Allen never followed through, Hale may have become caught up in this Vermont enthusiasm. Part of this letter is written in Emma Smiths hand and part in Joseph Smiths hand. and our frozen kasha varnishkes. His mother recalled after Joseph first met Emma, he immediately commenced paying his addresses. Anderson,Lucys Book,361. In 1860, Emma affiliated with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (later renamed Community of Christ). While it is unlikely Isaac knew much about Josephs education from observing him with the treasure diggers, writing letters was an important part of courting during the period and this gave Isaac an opportunity to evaluate Josephs abilities. Emma apparently had an education equal to the other prominent members of the community. While Lewis maintained the operation of the local congregation, circuit riders continued to come through the valley. Robert H. Rose to Isaac Hale, Deeds, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 11:444. Longtime Harmony resident John Comfort called it the Susquehanna Valley, John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, December 24, 1836, Syracuse University Archives, Syracuse, New York. Scan this QR code to download the app now. 29. Both she and Joseph III traveled to a conference at Amboy, Illinois. Joseph Smith first arrived in the area of Harmony, Pennsylvania, in 1825. 314. A word search using Googles n-gram feature elicited numerous examples of boarding used in both senses during the period in which Joseph stayed in the Susquehanna Valley. Emma became its founding president,[7] with Sarah M. Cleveland and Elizabeth Ann Whitney as her counselors. He was boarded by Isaac while. 26. On April 6, 1860, Joseph was sustained as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which prefaced "Reorganized" to its name in 1872 and in 2001 became known as the Community of Christ. But she unfortunately married a British Officer who had a wife in England which was afterwards discovered. 196. 258. After her death in 1879, her sons published a transcript of an interview in which she purportedly denied Joseph had ever sanctioned plural marriage.6 Notwithstanding the religious and emotional turmoil over this practice, Emma maintained a deep love for Joseph. Methodists in the township met at either one home or the other for worship services, elections, court sessions, or other community events. On September 2, 1831, the Smiths moved into John Johnson's home in Hiram, Ohio. Among them was a man named Josiah Stow, a deacon in Daniel Bucks congregation, where Josiah Stowell would later also serve as a deacon. 217. Buckwheat grew best on the foothills and rising slopes of the mountains while oats and rye did much better in their valley than other grains.117 Settlers also grew corn, beans, pumpkins, cucumbers (they called these cow cumbers), potatoes, carrots, and turnips.118 But these could only be grown adequately on the north side of the river where the southern mountains did not shade the land in late fall or early spring, and it took more effort to turn the southern side of the valley into productive land than most of the valleys residents were willing to give.119. The competing congregations produced tension. rock valley college basketball; rooms for rent in othello washington. Sugar houses were specifically listed as taxable operations, but the intent was to tax commercial enterprises instead of family operations. Frisbie,History of Middletown,5556. This continued a struggle Joseph Smith faced for several years over how his taxes were determined. After these occurrences, young Smith made several visits at my house, and at length asked my consent to his marrying my daughter Emma. A New Chapter, About to Be Published,Amboy Journal, April 30, 1879, 1. It is possible that Hales role in working for the well-read Pickering family encouraged them to suggest names for his daughter. No, it wasnt, replied the accused, for the Lord knows that when he sends blessings to me I dont wait until the next day before I take them. He was acquitted.215, Alva Hale used the Sabbath as a day for target shooting, and his father, Isaac, often found himself in the woods hunting. Emma and Joseph III returned to Nauvoo after the conference and he led the church from there until moving to Plano, Illinois, in 1866. R. Hines Statement,Naked Truths About Mormonism1 (January 1888): 2. 315. That fall, Joseph obtained the gold plates and continued his mission of being an instrument in the hands of God in restoring the gospel. He was at that time in the employ of a set of men who were called "money diggers;" and his occupation was that of seeing, or pretending to see by means of a stone placed in his hat, and his hat closed over his face. . Hale Home. Anne SMITH daughter of Thomas Smith died 11 February 1880 aged 33 years 140b. He was taxed that year as a single man, while he courted thirteen-year-old Mary (Polly) McKune who lived next door.250 In preparation for marriage, Jesse began building his own house on the southeastern edge of his fathers farm between his parents home and that of the McKunes (on what became the Joseph and Emma Smith property). Even the elite where Isaac lived as a boy put resources into discovering precious metal. Although a large, level valley in the center of the township became Wells village, the Lewis family settled away from the village on inexpensive land on a rocky mountain top near the northeastern township line. Rose overcame his melancholy feelings as he worked to create a place for his intended bride. 144. boonie bears monster plan; lowest temperature in pensacola, fl; glencoe high school basketball Hale traveled from Connecticut along the newly opened turnpike to southwestern New York until he arrived at Ouaquaga village or Old Oquago,which straddled the Susquehanna River four miles south of what would eventually become Colesville, New York.30 Major General John Sullivans soldiers had already burned Ouaquaga to the ground and massacred hundreds of Onondaga tribal members and recently settled Tuscarora families before Hale arrived, leaving corn in the fields, apples in the orchards, and tools scattered about the ground. Since Whaley wrote several decades before Blackman and drew directly from letters and personal conversations with the individuals discussed, his dating was likely more accurate. 91. When he reported receiving a calling from God to take his father's place as head of a "New Organization" of the Latter Day Saint church, she supported his decision. 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. Lewis reenlisted as part of the 2nd Regiment. Father of Jesse Hale , David Hale , Alva Hale , Elizabeth Hale , Isaac Ward Hale and Emma (Hale) Bidamon. The copyist added Joe Smiths wife next to her name to preserve her famous status but did not include her baptismal date which is now lost. Richard L. Bushman,The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 115. For instance the scaffolding for building A. Lathrops chimney yet remains & looks as if it had withstood many a wintry storm; but the chimney is scarcely raised as high as the roof of his house.146. An unruly crowd gathered, delaying Emmas confirmation, and Joseph was arrested and imprisoned on charges of disorderly conduct. Menu and widgets Joseph and Emma lived for about two months in Emma's childhood home before moving to a house nearby. She was baptized on 28 June 1830, shortly after the Church was organized. The Joseph/Jacob Smith land was apparently used for lumbering. 236. Had this individual been Joseph Smith Jr., or his father, the Hale family would have known of it and noted it to family members that later recorded affidavits. As a middling mansion, the newly built frame home was full of enough comforts to impress Lucy Smith, but not large enough for the family to live in high style. Timothy Lee, before Mrs. [Emma] Smith was born.189 Emma was already born and baptized into the Congregationalists before Reverend Lee arrived in the valley. Lumber was also transported overland to the Delaware River about fifteen miles east of the Hale home where it was deposited until the spring floods carried the arks downriver straight to Philadelphia. 86. 262. Rose charged the Hales $3.79 an acre for their land which was more than ten times the amount Bennett initially paid for it and a dollar per acre higher than Rose charged Isaac and Elizabeth Hales neighbors, suggesting he took advantage of the added value twenty years of Hale family improvements had given the land. When the twins were nine days old, their father, John, gave the infants to the Smiths to raise as their own. After his dismissal, Pickering decided he wanted to retire from public life, move to the country, and become a gentleman farmer. While there was not a single Elect Lady among the Methodists who could prophesy and reveal the will of God, many of the women among the Shouting Methodists found themselves in the woods seeking inspiration as they reminded the young they should be retiring to the grove for a solitary walk, or private devotion.185 They saw themselves as saints in the tradition of early Christianity, and their hymns encouraged them to pray, asking to see the power of God manifested.186 To reinforce this effort, they sang Ye saints, who love the Lords dear name, Who love to worship at his feet . 267. I have selected the standard spelling for use here, see Sarah M. Kimball, letter to Marinda Hyde, January 2, 1848, Marinda Hyde Papers 18381849, CHL; Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, October 27, 1839, (rough book), CHL; and Oliver Cowdery, Diary and Nauvoo High Council Minutes (fair copy), 2728, CHL. Young Joseph (as he became known) was the first of her natural children to live to adulthood. The outlines of this figure were plainly visible to the earliest white visitors of this valley. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,102, reported, Major Buck . Davis, Lewises Who Served Their Country, 117. An individual of David Hale's age range was listed in the Isaac Hale house - hold for the year but may have been living elsewhere on the property. 13. Press J to jump to the feed. Eclectic Man carved the Oliver Harper headstone. As the elect lady, she presided over the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo from its founding in 1842 until 1844, providing relief to new immigrants and destitute families.
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