202. 146. John E. Goodrich,The State of Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 17751783, (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1904), 20809. Photograph by Mark L. Staker, Knife and two forks, found on Hale Farm. Anderson,Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale, 42728. MatthewJ. 42. A detailed exploration of this home, including images of the construction plans, and the Pickering family interaction with Isaac Hale and his family is in Mark Staker, Emma Hale Smith and Her Family in Harmony, Pennsylvania, Historic Sites Files, CHL, 2010. For significant publications by Charles Pickering see,The Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants:United States exploring expedition, 18381842, under the command of Charles Wilkes)(Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1863); andRaces of Man and Their Geographical Distribution (London: H. G. Bohn, 1854). 53. Although Emily Blackman dates construction of the first Pickering home to 1800 (Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,95), Timothy Pickering noted in a letter to one of his sons that it was built in 1801. Richard BEST died 2 May 1867 aged 48 years. Conflicts between church members and neighbors also continued to escalate, and eventually Young made the decision to relocate the church to the Salt Lake Valley. He had been relaxing in his home when he was called upon to walk to the neighboring Treadwell home to interview a neighbor. Cowdery continued a scribe for Smith until the Book of Mormon was completed as I supposed and understood. Harmony, February 22, 1826, Elial T. Foote Papers, 26:137; and Paul,History of Wells,119. Quaker John Hilborn was the best educated man in the valley. This conclusion is supported by a shift in the tax record on December 31, 1823, when David was taxed for one house and his fathers assessment dropped from two houses to one.254 Davids financial ledger from the period also indicates his store was on or near his fathers property by 1824, and the log home is the only candidate for both a residence and store.255, George Peck wrote notes on each sermon he delivered at Isaac Hales, he recalled he preached at . Rude, irregular, uncultivated is the ground; wild, ignorant, and wicked are the people.194 William Colbert was even harsher in his evaluation of the settlers in the area when he came through in 1793, writing, It appears to me from what I have heard that Susquehanna woods abound with whores, whoremongers, and drunkards, and for all I know murderers.195. Richard L. Bushman,The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 115. When Emma decided to marry Joseph in 1827, her parents disowned her, but did allow their daughter and son-in-law back for a time while Emma was pregnant with their first child and as Joseph continued translating the . Just like the property of his neighbors, most of the Hale land was rocky, steep mountainside that took major effort to make arable. Wills and Probate Inventories, Book 1, 21213, December 23, 1838, Susquehanna County, Montrose, Pennsylvania.
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