Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Monument Site Improvements: Hale Precontact Site and McKune Barn Site, Rensselaer, New York: Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc, May 2012. 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. A wing (no longer extant) was added to this house, which Emma operated as a hotel. His information on Emmas early conversion appears to be part of what he learned directly from her. When Pickering announced to his friends his plans to move in the neighborhood of the Isaac Hale family, his associates tried to dissuade him from settling along such a remote area of the Susquehanna. He blamed Federalists and Whigs for their problems.282, John Comfort saved his harshest words for the decline of religion in Harmony. 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. ; The Isaac Hale Beach Park on the island of Hawaii was named for a descendant who lived in the . History, 18381856, volume A-1 Smith stated to me, that he had given up what he called "glass-looking," and that he expected to work hard for a living, and was willing to do so. The Joseph/Jacob Smith land was apparently used for lumbering. Although most of this frame home later burned in an 1865 fire, and was rebuilt into an even larger home by the carpenter James Tillman in the early 1870s, there is enough evidence from the original frame home to determine some significant aspects of its appearance and character. 158. 65. I have not been able to confirm this purchase in the land deed records. 90. 284. Joseph boarded at the nearby home of Isaac Hale, where he met Emma, Isaac's twenty-year old daughter. A digital copy is available at,http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/miscill3.htm#043079. In addition to the daybook, the 1820 census that included David as part of his fathers household also documented the business activities of each household. Photograph by. Although first chartered in 1761 as part of the New Hampshire land grants, the township was only recently organized by members of the Ward family and other local civic leaders. Timothy Pickering Jr., Drawings and Instructions for a House in the Country, The Timothy Pickering Papers, 17451820, 45:4955, Massachusetts Historical Society. She was descended of primarily English ancestors,[8][9] including seven passengers on the Mayflower. Joseph SmithIII, Last Testimony of Sister Emma,290. Thou Art an Elect Lady: D&C 24, 25, 26,27,, My Great-Great-Grandmother Emma Smith,, My Dear and Beloved Companion: The Letters of Joseph and Emma Smith,, A Heart Full of Love and Faith: The Prophets Letters to His Family,, Emma Smith letter to Joseph Smith, Mar.7, 1839. Arthur B. Deming, ed., W. 37. 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. He lamented the state of religion in letter after letter for more than a decade. Although Raymond Bailey noted It is thought [Emma] . See Emily Blackman, Susquehanna County, 1090. 155. I enquired whose words they were, and was informed by Joseph or Emma, (I rather think it was the former) that they were the words of Jesus Christ. Both Don Carlos Smiths would die the next year. Lewis and family have, for two months, lived in the small house we built in 1801. . Fanny Winters, a stepdaughter of Joseph McKune Sr., married Benjamin Comfort on May 12, 1829, and Catherine Winters, a sister of Fanny, married George W. Lane, a nephew of influential minister George Lane and son of Martin Lane, the prominent businessman after whom Lanesville was named.313 Robert McKune married Mary Hilborn and they moved into the Hilborn home at the death of her father, John.314 Hale sons Jesse and Ward each married a McKune girl as well, and the other Hale children married locally except Emma. 3 Born in Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut. However, throughout her lifetime Emma publicly denied her husband's involvement in the practice of polygamy and denied on her deathbed that the practice had ever occurred. Elizabeth Wasson moved with her husband to nearby Colesville in late 1829. One day, when Elisha Bibbins was the circuit rider, Isaac came across his daughter Emma in the woods while out hunting.216 Mr. John Comfort wrote his son on Christmas Eve 1836 of the Hale family exodus. British law encouraged prospectors to look anywhere for ore they chose as long as it did not disrupt Houses, Orchards, Gardens, and Enclosures of Sugarworks. The only other requirement of the law was that the finder pay a tax of one-sixth of any ore discovered.61 A loophole allowed for the tax-free discovery of buried coins, watches, jewelry, bars of metal, or other items not considered ore. The science of geology was not well developed at the time, and a folk treasure hunting tradition was imported from Europe and refined over more than two centuries that relied on supernatural means to find buried minerals and valuables.62 Prayer was also frequently used then as it is today in the search for lost things. Son of Reuben Hale and Diantha Ward. 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. F. Russell Meyer,The Reverend Elam Potter(Enfield, Conn.: Enfield Congregational Church, 2002). 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. This was when Isaac helped build the Lewis home and just before he built his own. . The words purported meaning of place of hulled-corn soup may have had reference to several pits containing charred corn Buck and Hale found near the ancient apple trees.44 No matter who named the mountain, that name permanently connected the Hale family and their mountain to the Onandaga people who lived there before. While travelling there, they saw an elderly man walking alongside the road. . He was called to account before the church for breaking the Sabbath. Thy heart shall rejoice in the great work of the Lord, and no one shall take thy rejoicing from thee. Joseph identified the man as the angel Moroni. Subject Files, Susquehanna County Historical Society. All of Isaac and Elizabeth Hales sons, except Reuben, had a daughter named either Elizabeth or Betsey. In September 1830, she and Joseph moved to Fayette, New York, to live with the Whitmer family. These may be the bodies of other family members or neighbors moved at the same time or earlier forgotten burials. Although Emma remained estranged from Brigham Young and the Latter-day Saints in Utah, she maintained her belief in Joseph Smiths prophetic role and in the divine truth of the Book of Mormon. When Isaac and Elizabeth Hale settled the valley, they had only nominal religious involvement. 148. 195. the LDS Church History Department. Tradition claims for her some advanced education and surviving letters suggest she was not only a good speller but articulate and refined in her writing.310 It was natural for Isaac and Elizabeth Hale to hope for their daughter Emma a marriage that matched her with someone who reached her level of education. 278. They courted for several months while Joseph worked to improve his financial situation. As the turnpike squeezed between the mountains, the rough road slumped into the Susquehanna Valley descending toward the river bend with its consistent early morning fog and faint smell of wet earth. When Josiah Stow witnessed a land transaction of George Harpers on April 18, 1789, Harper sold the land but specifically retained ownership allways all gold and silver mines on the property.103. Her mother-in-law, Lucy Mack Smith, praised Emmas character: I have never seen a woman in my life, who would endure every species of fatigue and hardship, from month to month, and from year to year, with that unflinching courage, zeal, and patience, which she has always done. Cookie Notice ; Smith and his father boarded with Isaac Hale in 1825 while working on Josiah Stowell's mining project. Caleb Carmalt eventually transferred all of his unpaid mortgages to Robert H. Rose for collection, Caleb Carmalt Accounts, Rose Family Papers. 275. Her husband, Dennison Root, and their children stayed in the Susquehanna Valley where some of their descendants live today. An 1857 hand drawn map of the Susquehanna Valley includes a stylized sketch of the Hale home depicting a structure similar to the one Timothy Pickering hired Isaac Hale to build for him.244 Pickering designed a typical Federal style home for his plantation in the Susquehanna Valley that included a neatly balanced appearance. Only six families in the valley had frame homes while less than half of the barns and other outbuildings in 1798 were specifically identified as log structures, suggesting the earliest sawn lumber went to outbuildings.142, When John Comforts sawmill began operation at the bend of the river, it was clearly the largest in the region and made lumber readily available in the area. Several of Pickerings friends had purchased large tracts of land in the Susquehanna Valley from him; and those friends combined the properties together and gave them as a gift to Hamiltons widow for her familys support.155 Through this means Elizabeth Hamilton briefly became owner of a significant portion of the Hale neighborhood. See Emily Blackman, draft version of History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna County Historical Association, Montrose, Pennsylvania. 50. : Susquehanna Centennial, Aug. 1627, 1953), 15. 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. Collection of the LDS Church History, John Osterhout cabin, 15 x 22 feet, built around 1800 in Wolf Hollow near the. Versaggi, personal communication to author, September 13, 2013. 27. 265. 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. Richard L. Bushman,The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 115. After this she married a man far inferior to her in every respect and far beneath her in rank.311 This was a concern of the refined social classes. For additional documentation of the Hale and Wallace wedding, see Marriage Record of Antha Hale and Joseph Wallace, Enfield, Connecticut Town Records, 16821854, Enfield, Connecticut, June 23, 1789; Francis Olcott Allen,The History of Enfield, Connecticut(Lancaster, Pa.: The Wickersham Printing Co., 1900), 2:1786. It is unlikely Lurena and her mother traveled in the wilderness to Pennsylvania without support; and they had to have traveled with the Hale and Lewis families. Isaac did not indicate the men stayed at his residence,while in the same affidavit he noted his daughter Emma and her husband Joseph lived with him briefly until they would move out, andresideupon a place near myresidence.280. Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and MatthewJ. Grow,eds., The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Womens History (Salt Lake City: Church Historians Press,2016). 241. rock valley college basketball; rooms for rent in othello washington. (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle & Co., 1869), 33; and, Lewis Family files, Susquehanna County Historical Society Archives, Montrose, Pennsylvania. This continued a struggle Joseph Smith faced for several years over how his taxes were determined. See John Comfort Correspondence. 55. The census enumerator could assign one of three categories of business: agricultural, commercial, or manufacturing. Ch.2) This quote is not from The History of the Church, Volume 1, Chapter 2, as claimed. While activities of the Rodsmen climaxed in 1801, the use of rods began in the late 1780s as Nathaniel Jr. approached adulthood and started courting. 310. 2 Isaac Hale (1763-1839) 3 Joseph Smith Sr. (1771-1840), was a treasure seeker. Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, served as the first president of the Relief Society and one of the Book of Mormon scribes, and she curated the Church's first hymnbook. Harris informed me afterwards, that he followed Smith's directions, and could not find the Plates, and was still dissatisfied. 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. 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. . Born in 1790, she spent much of her later life attending tea parties and religious events. : Herald Publishing House, 1929), 1:580, 711. A man came, first to Wells, then to Middletown, [and] introduced the hazel rod.85 A number of these Rodsmen lived in Wells along the township line in the Lewis neighborhood, while most gathered in Middletown where Sarah Cole lived as she and Nathaniel Jr. courted. Peck,Life and Times,68; George Peck, Memorandums of Circuit Travels, 18161818; Peck,Early Methodism,256. Jesse Hale served in various elected positions including superintendent of the local schools for District 3 while John Comfort served for District 1. . Joseph and Hiel Lewis read her account and used it as a source for parts of their own recollection six years later in which they repeated her conclusions, Joseph and Hiel Lewis, Mormon History, A New Chapter, About to be Published. Lucy Smith met the Hales and Joseph Smith knew them well. 32. The detailed reports of this excavation are available in the unpublished documents: Hartgen Archaeological Associates, Inc., Report, Historic Sites, Church Historians Office, 2005; Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc., Archeological Field Investigations and Addenda 1 and 2, Joseph Smith Jr. House Site, Town of Oakland (Formerly Harmony), Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, May 2005. One day he was digging alone when Fry came on to one [treasure] box and he got it out [of the ground], but it was so heavy he could not lift it, so he went for someone to help, and when they returned the box was gone; he supposed the Spaniards [as ghosts] got it, Paul,History of Wells,81, 90. 186. . Charles W. Upham,The Life of Timothy Pickering(Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1878), 4:5. However, as the time passed Isaac had concerns about Joseph's character and history. Joseph wrote with a similar tone of respect and admiration even after his father-in-law had written a negative affidavit about him, SeeJSP, H1: 234; Anderson,Lucys Book, 259 note 82; Oliver Cowdery, Letter VIII,Latter Day Saints Messenger and Advocate2, no. His appearance at this time, was that of a careless young man -- not very well educated, and very saucy and insolent to his father. 273. [13] The bank's demise led to serious problems for the church and the Smith family. But in her sons eyes she managed to die a good Christian death as was expected at the time. Forty-eight years after the young, ambitious couple first settled their farm together, Isaac dictated his will on December 23, 1838, two days short of the second anniversary of Phebes death. Latter Day Saints' Selection of Hymns was published in 1861. See Bushman,The Refinement of America,especially xii. Without a turnpike heading south from Ouaquaga, Buck and Hale took the Warrior Path, a narrow trail that followed the river south fifteen miles, and then turned west still following the river as it made a great bend through a narrow, crescent-shaped valley roughly 2,000 feet widetypically leaving just enough fertile land for thin farms on the north side of its banksand running for less than thirteen miles before the river turned north and entered New York again. By implication the Presbyterian minister seemed to think praying for direct answers and prophesying would invite influence from the devil on him as well.184, Although Colbert left the region and never went into the Susquehanna Valley where the Hale family lived, his type of Methodism became widespread in the region as others did not seem to share the concerns of the Presbyterian minister.



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