1. VIDEO: The Discovery of the Book of Mormon | Scripture Central . The standards of a genteel life required young people to follow a long list of specific behaviors toward their parents, and Joseph appears to have been unaware of these. 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. Photograph by Mark L. Staker, Onondaga pottery, found on Hale Farm, Collection of the LDS Church History. 177. 131. . [1] In 1842, when the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formed as a women's service organization, she was elected by its members[2] as the organization's first president. History Department. However, overall it seems that Isaac was not happy with his daughter's relationship with Joseph. 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. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,485, emphasis in original. . Brigham Young, president of the quorum, then became the de facto president of the church in Nauvoo. He said it was a young child. 29. The artifact scatter suggests a door in the log home faced east toward the work yard and toward a rock-lined well that still exists near the seasonal brook. Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Monument Site Improvements: Hale Precontact Site and McKune Barn Site, Rensselaer, New York: Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc, May 2012. J. The lack of a legal will placed both the Church and Emmas family in uncertain financial conditions. Events of the 1838 Mormon War soon escalated, resulting in Joseph's surrender and imprisonment by Missouri officials. 163. He was hunting deer and when near this place saw a young Panther about half grown standing on a fallen tree. See relevant entries throughout Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon., 132. 170. After Isaac married Elizabeth Lewis in 1790 they moved into a 15 by 30 foot log home on their property where they raised five boys and four girls. Versaggi, personal communication to author, September 13, 2013; see also Gina Laczko,Irp;oquois Silverwork: from the collection of The Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation,(Hamilton, NY: Gallery Association of New York State), 1980, 24; Arthur Woodward, Indian Use of the Silver Gorget,Indian Notes3 (Fall 1926): 23249. Joseph Smith left no record of what he thought of the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale farm and recently expanded home when he first encountered them at nineteen. 194. Robert S. Hansen, Tioga County, Pennsylvania Extension Director, personal communication to author, March 16, 2010. 201. Searle, diary, June 1832Nov. Room in the Taylor (later Munson) Tavern (with original paneling) where Francis, Asbury likely slept. 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. Two of the ominous headstones at the edge of the turnpike were for Joseph Smith, who died on March 10, 1792, and Josiah Stow, a local farmer and grave robber, who died on April 2, 1820, the latter not to be confused with Josiah Stowell. The age of Nathaniel Lewis Jr.s interest in preaching seems very specific, which suggests that it may be accurate. She is called an "elect lady" in Doctrine and Covenants 25. They were Henry Drinker, who acquired large tracts of Willingborough Township, particularly on the south side of the river, and John Hilborn, who served as his land agent helping to sell the Drinker property. George Peck(New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1873), 68; Trial Notes of Scribe A. Peck also referred to Isaac as old Brother Hale, George Peck,Early Methodism within the Bounds of the Old Genesee Conference from 1788 to 1828(New York: Carlton and Porter, 1860), 256. 21, 1763, at New Haven, CT. As a small boy his maternal grandfather, Arah Ward (who had a grist mill, and married to Phebe Towner 1717-1784) took Isaac to Vermont sometime after his mother, Diantha, passed away and his father, Reuben, after remarrying, removed to Hartland in 1771. Nina M. Versaggi, Director, Public Archaeology Facility, Binghamton University, Personal communication to author, September 13, 2013. Willingborough Township, 1798 Direct Tax. Emmas influential prayer seems to not only have made a difference for her father, but her missionary spirit seems to have influenced others as well. Jesse Hale Isaac W Hale and Reuben Hale have moved on the Allegany near Olian; and David Hale intends to go next spring. Robert H. Rose to Isaac Hale, Deeds, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 11:444. The early settlers grandchildren recalled years later how their families brought with them many of those old Connecticut notions and prejudices, which shaped their daily activities such as avoiding beginning to plow or plant on a Friday (considered an unlucky day) or making sure the moon was in the right quarter to begin planting to guarantee a good crop. See discussion below of this Joseph Smith land in 1832 for additional insight. 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 . Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering, 117, emphasis in original. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,11617. Joe Smith Operates at Susquehanna,Binghamton Daily Republican,29 July 1880,Early Mormon Documents4:34566. 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. Debates about who should be Joseph's successor as the leader of the church also involved Emma. 145. It was an even more idealized distant memory when Isaacs son David wrote about his fathers profession in the early 1870s. Susquehanna County, Township Incorporations, 1790 to 1853, Susquehanna County Historical Society, Montrose, Pennsylvania. [citation needed] As she had in Kirtland, Emma Smith lead "the work of boarding and clothing the men engaged in building [the Nauvoo temple]". In one of these reports, he boasted of raising in a single season as much as 750 bushels of oats, 450 bushels of corn, and 2,560 pounds of pork, along with smaller amounts of other items. The announcement of Joseph having the plates created a great deal of excitement in the area. Benson Bobrick,Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution(New York: Penguin Books, 1997),50-51, 148. Since Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,88, 95, also claimed there was not a sawmill in Harmony Township before 1810, much later than the construction of the Hilborn and Drinker homes, and the 1798 tax records list sawmills a decade earlier than her date, the Hilborn and Drinker homes may have been built shortly after Isaac Hale purchased his property and before his marriage. Records, Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 25 June She was descended of primarily English ancestors,[8][9] including seven passengers on the Mayflower. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,136. 07/03/2022 . See Dubois and Pike,Centennial of Susquehanna County, 72. Isaac was born on March 21st, 1763 in New Haven, New Haven, Conn.Isaac's father is Reuben HALE and his mother was Diantha WARD.His paternal grandfather was Samuel HEALD and his paternal grandmother is Judith HODGE; his maternal grandparents were Arah WARD and Phebe TOWNER.He had two brothers and two sisters, named Reuben, Boy, Antha and Naomi.He was the second oldest of the five children. Isaac did not pay the tax for the log home and it may have been used by others who paid the tax for that home. Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,36. Emma Hale was born on July 10, 1804, in Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania,[7] the seventh child of Isaac Hale and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. These sources also disagree as to where Elizabeth was born, but Andersons claim Elizabeth was born in Litchfield may be because the Lewis property was on the township line, while her family home was on the Goshen side of the line but still in Litchfield County. I checked these facts after listening to a recent podcast with Grant Palmer here. I have concluded she was born in Goshen on the family property. Musket strike plate (left); antler handle (right), found on Hale Farm, Collection of. . She does not include Levi among the children. It was said, that Harris wrote down one hundred and sixteen pages, and lost them. Mormon prophet Joseph Smith met his father-in-law, Isaac Hale, while using his peep stone in a hat to hunt for buried treasure. A photograph of the map is in the authors possession. She later wrote in an interview with her son, Joseph Smith III: "In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us. He watched his father bury a kettle of gold but kept it secret for many years. See Harmony Township tax records for unseated lands for Jacob, William, and Joseph Smith, Unseated lands for William Smith (364 acres) and Jacob Smith (401 acres) 1815 recorded for January 1816 assessment; 1820 it is William 364 and Jacob 402. A New Chapter, About to Be Published,Amboy Journal, April 30, 1879, 1. But as part of what then existed of an American aristocracy, he immediately gave status to the Lewis and Hale families, a relationship the family still referenced a half-century later. Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom Came to America between the Years 1620 and 1685, and Settled in the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Besides making no land payments, they grew their own food, and found resources primarily from their own farm or by sharing with neighbors. 30. 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. August 1830, Deed from Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, 25 August 1830, as . Just like the property of his neighbors, most of the Hale land was rocky, steep mountainside that took major effort to make arable. Blackman noted Elizabeth Hale was for fifty years a consistent member of the Methodist church (Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103). 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. 314. . B. Buck, one of Daniels grandsons, who was not there during the early years of occupation and appears to be reporting the memories of others, later suggested that what he described as the first diggings done in their area were at the Painted Rock site.106 He recalled his uncle found the foundation of a house on the island in the river at Painted Rock, where they targeted their initial digging. Elizabeth Wasson moved with her husband to nearby Colesville in late 1829. He recalled, the corn was good, but late, and the frost killed it. Vogel, Joseph Lewis Rejoinder, 11 June 1879,Early Mormon Documents,4:311. His appearance at this time, was that of a careless young man -- not very well educated, and very saucy and insolent to his father. 21:31, Isa. "The Voice of Innocence from Nauvoo" in "Virtue Will Triumph", Learn how and when to remove this template message, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, marriages of Joseph Smith to plural wives, "Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, p. 7", "Joseph and Emma Share a Common Heritage", The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, "The Courtship and Marriage of Emma Hale and Joseph Smith", "Moroni Appeared to 17 Different People! Joseph McKune was the assessor and Jesse Hale was the assistant assessor. 143. Everyone in the valley assisted each other in their daily tasks during social events where this combination of work and play were known as frolics. Frolics were occasions for dancing, eating, and socializing while settlers raised barns, husked corn, quilted fabric, or other tasks usually completed as a community. 133. 281. In contrast, the older Hale sons were raised in the valley before it had schools or educational opportunities. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103. He also made arrangements with my son Alva Hale, to go to Palmyra, and move his (Smith's) furniture &c. to this place. His headstone reads Zachariah Tarble, contemporary property deeds use that spelling, as do local histories, e.g. Vogel, Josiah Stowell, Jr., to John S. Fullmer, 17 February 1843,Early Mormon Documents,4:78, 80; Vogel, Lyman Stowell Reminiscence, 1901,Early Mormon Documents,4:86. It was likely the array of comforts that impressed her most. David Hale as cited in Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 103. 92. A Heart Full of Love and Faith: The Prophets Letters to His Family, in Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2007), 23847. Nathaniel Lewis dedicated much of his time during that year to working for the Unitarian Timothy Pickering and assisting the dying Tim Pickering in his last hours, but he was also likely involved in Methodism by then, since he had preached for years in Vermont before marrying and coming to Pennsylvania. 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. Presumably he was promoted during the war and served in all three positions. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,52, quoted a local resident who described the setting as far above the reach of man, was [located] the painted figure of an Indian Chief. Isaac Hale, son of Reuben Hale & Diantha Ward, was born Mar. One of Emmas young female contemporaries described what she considered tragic circumstances connected to another woman in their area. They were evidently painted by Indians; but when, or by whom, is not known. Based on her thirty years of experience doing archeology at Woodlands Native American sites, including one in the Susquehanna Valley at Great Bend, Nina M. Versaggi, Director, Public Archeology Facility, Binghamton University, has suggested the location may have been a local burial site or a sacred ritual site but was not likely the location of an early village or settlement, personal communication to author, September 13, 2013. Whether it was Isaacs first choice of occupation, or one of convenience, he was a great hunter, and made his living principally by procuring game.125 Because the valley had been a Native American hunting ground, Isaac Hales occupation put him in direct competition with the Indian villages in the region. But I have not been able to reconcile the known data with this possibility. Susquehanna County Deeds, History, 18381856, volume F-1 [1 May 18448 August 1844], History, circa June 1839circa 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. People of all faiths and perspectives are welcome to engage in civil, respectful discussion about topics related to Mormonism. 11. 103. Their separation had been so complete, she listed her children and each of their names so her mother could learn of her own grandchildren. 1833, September 2, 1832; Theological Seminary,General Catalogue of the Theological Seminary(Andover, Mass. After cutting the meat into strips, he layered it and put it in long, narrow troughs of birch or maple, much like those used by his Native American neighbors, and an item he probably learned to make from them. [citation needed] She had persuaded John Taylor and Joseph Smith to call the organization the "Relief Society" instead of the "Benevolent Society". Alvin, their first child, was born and died in this home. 244. David Hale became a legal adult and was listed in the tax records for the first time as a single man on January 1, 1816. Marjorie Catlin Roehm,The Letters of George Catlin and His Family: A Chronicle of the American West(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 810. It was on this largely unimproved farm that Joseph Smith Jr. first met Isaac and Elizabeth Hale. Anne SMITH daughter of Thomas Smith died 11 February 1880 aged 33 years 140b. It appears the Lewis men sided with the majority of Methodists that disapproved of divining rod use.89 Nathaniel moved to the Susquehanna in autumn 1790, and whatever existed of the Methodists in Middletown where he had lived quickly dissolved so that when Methodist preacher Laban Clark arrived in the town in 1799, the family of a Mr. (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. Nahum 1:7, Romans 10:1, Luke 11:1, [and] John 21:15. Sermons preached in Sela Paynes home a little over a mile east of the Hales were based on the texts Sam. 6562331), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6562331/isaac-hale (accessed 12 July 2022). D&C 23-26 Come Follow Me Lesson - dontmissthisstudy.com, 10 Things You Most Likely Didn't Know About Emma Smith - Called to Share, Children of Joseph Smith and Emma Smith History. A curved foundation wall on the west side of the home may have been part of the original log home cellar. Colonel Pickering sought the advice of Benjamin Rush, formerly surgeon general in the Continental Army, and other prominent physicians who diagnosed Tim as having throat cancer. 41. Isaac Hale remembered of Joseph, his appearance at this time, was that of a careless young mannot very well educated, and very saucy and insolent to his father.302. A local slave recalled when she arrived in the valley, already several people had moved to the neighborhood, had erected log houses, cleared the lands, and begun to cultivate fields and raise stock.139 Each family built a log-house covered with bark, which differed from a log cabin in that the logs were smoothed with an adze to create straight edges, and the bark was generally used to enclose the upper portions in lieu of sawn lumber as was the case with the Hale familys neighbor John Osterhout (as seen in the illustration).140, Despite the great insulating qualities and durability of logs, even when they were hewn and nicely shaped settlers considered them less refined than sawn lumber in frame homes, and they tried to improve the look of their homes as soon circumstances allowed.141 The 1798 direct tax lists noted three sawmills in the valley, including that of Sylvanus Traves (or Travis) who lived on the farm immediately east of the Hale property. Florence Hartley,The Ladies Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness(Boston: G. W. Cottrell, Publisher, 1860), 124. When Doctor Richard Shuckburgh, Captain Borrow, and Silas Swart, some of the first white men to travel through the Susquehanna Valley, came through that region in 1734 under orders from the governor to search for mines, Shuckburgh looked over the region like stout Cortez hoping to find precious ore, but after he could not get local tribal leaders to share information with him he left, still certain they were hiding something.97Shuckburgh is credited by many with later writing the words to the songYankee Doodle,which if correct is somewhat ironic since the tune forYankee Doodlewas used for a song in the first American comic operaThe Disappointmentthat lampooned a Philadelphia merchant obsessed with buried pirate treasure.98, After Shuckburgh traveled through the Susquehanna Valley, settlers began to move into the mountains. Joseph received revelation from God to leave Kirtland for the safety of his family, and on January 12, 1838, Joseph left for Missouri. They were married on January 18, 1827 at South Bainbridge, N.Y. 5 At the Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith home in Manchester, New York. The youngest Hale son, Reuben, could write well enough to serve as Joseph Smiths scribe, and the younger daughters were apparently also educated. Blackman (History of Susquehanna County,9596) believed John Comfort built the first sawmill in the valley in 1809. He sold to the railroad the portion of the farm where his fathers body was buried with the agreement the railroad would move Isaac Hale to the cemetery before laying down track over the burial spot. 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. Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma Smith. The Saints Herald(April 9, 1935): 465. It is also possible he drew from the general folk culture of New England and learned how to use a rod to receive revelation elsewhere. Several members of the Catlin family joined the Methodists and were active in the same congregations where Nathaniel Lewis preached and the Hale family attended. Nationality: United States. Ever the Democrat, as was the Hale family, Comfort lamented how everyone blamed a noticeable decline in Harmony on Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren because of the collapse of Americas banking system. to designate an old town of the Tuscaroras.267 She was likely incorrect about the tribal affiliation of the ruins, since others have argued the Onondaga lived on the west side of the Susquehanna River and the Tuscarora lived on the east side. Children were to only address their parents with a title of respect, such as using Sir. They were to always bow when approaching their parents. In July 1798 Congress ordered a direct tax on the real property of Americans, known popularly as the window tax, this required that every family in the country have their home appraised. Selah Payne, who was a fellow Methodist of the Hale family, and who provided his home as the second meeting place along with the Hale family, began to build an African college on his property, but abandoned the project, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,105. Isaac apparently rented out his log home to these groups of men to make some money, and he may have even briefly been a little deluded in involving himself in their search for buried relics and money.269 Since his son David was renting the Westfall property and involved in later contract arrangements, it is likely David was also involved for a time. See Bushman,The Refinement of America,especially xii. 33. Just another site. While drains were common and the Smiths likely had one as well, had Isaac followed the plans he received from Pickering on his own home, the kitchen could have had clean water coming in and out with ease. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,4:119. 265. The drought and frost forced some local residents to walk for days trying to find enough food to feed their families.120 During the following summer of 1801, freezing temperatures and biting frosts again killed crops on July 26, August 5, August 25, and September 1213. 271. . By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The Hale and Wallace wedding was likely a quiet affair because they did not mention race in the legally required public notice for the marriage on May 24, 1789. B. Wilkinson dated the initial settlement of that valley to 1788, (Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,110112). Their father, Isaac, spent his time in the backwoods and had no known formal education. 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. Emma and her family followed and made a new home on the frontier in the Latter Day Saint settlement of Far West, Missouri, where Emma gave birth on June 2, 1838, to Alexander Hale Smith. Various sources spell Emmas nickname differently, including Emmy, Emey, and Emy. Register of Baptisms, January 11, 1797, First Presbyterian Church Records, Hallstead, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna County Historical Society; see also Lawrence Bothwell, ed.,The Journals of Seth Williston, 17961800, (Binghamton, NY: Broome County Historical Society, 1992), 10809. Her mother Elizabeth Lewis Hale died in 1842. 120. Although Dubois recalled that her masters large new frame house was the first frame building in the area, she must not have noticed others in the region, since a few settlers had already begun to replace their log structures by the beginning of the nineteenth century. He pleaded not guilty. Arah began to build a second, larger home until the dam to his mill gave out and destroyed his home and livelihood. Recorded in Susquehanna County Deeds, Deed to Joseph McKune Jr., 28 June 1833, as Recorded in Emma and her family were forced to leave the state, along with most other church members. [1]:7 Hiding the plates in his coat, he descended down the hill after many hours, and instead of taking them home, Joseph hid the plates.

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