Mormon History, Jan 18, 1827

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-- Jan 18, 1827
[Joseph Smith] Joseph Smith Jr. marries Emma Hale in South Bainbridge, New York. (1)

[Joseph Smith] [Joseph Smith] Marries Emma Hale at South Bainbridge, New York. (2)

[Joseph Smith] Joseph Jr. and Emma Hale are married at South Bainbridge, New York. (3)

[Joseph Smith] (age 21)Marries Emma Hale of Harmony, Pennsylvania; they are married in South Bainbridge, New York. (4)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. and Emma are married by "Squire Tarbill" [Zachariah Tarbell] at South Bainbridge without her father's permission. They go to Manchester and work on the family farm for the next spring and summer. (5)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Marriage of Joseph Jr. to Emma Hale at S. Bainbridge, N.Y. (6)

[Oliver Cowdery] Joseph Smith, Jr. and Emma Hale were married at S. Bainbridge, Chenango, NY. Sideny Rigdon's whereabouts between mid-Dec. and Jan. 27 were unaccounted for. (7)

[Polygamy] to 27 Jun 1844 Marriage - Joseph to Emma Hale. Smith enlisted the help of a third treasure-seeker to obtain Emma Hale as a wife according to the requirement of Moroni. Emma did not mention her father's claim that this happened while he was away from home on business, but later told her children, "I was visiting at Mr. [Josiah] Stowell's, who lived at Bainbridge, and saw your father there. I had no intention of marrying when I left home; but, during my visit at Mr. Stowell's, your father visited me there. My folks were bitterly opposed to him; and, being importuned by your father, aided by Mr. Stowell, who urged me to marry him, and preferring to marry him to any other man I knew, I consented." The couple eloped on 18 January 1827 (1879, 289; I. Hale 1834, 363; HC 1:17; D. Hill 1977, 69; Youngreen 1982, 5-6). In commenting about this, Mormons typically speak of romance and Smith's love for Emma as the reason for their elopement (e.g. Cadwell 1879). It is more probab
le, however, that Smith risked alienating his parents-in-law from his new bride by elopingnot for love alonebut to fulfill the requirement of Moroni. PLACE: South Bainbrudge, NY SOURCE: Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, p.140-141 (8)

-- Mar 10, 1827
[Joseph Smith] Joseph Jr. receives a receipt for credit of four dollars on Abraham Fish's account. (3)

-- About Mar 15, 1827
Sidney Rigdon seen at Smith's by Lorenzo Saunders (identified by Harrison Smith). (9)

-- 1827 Spring
[Sydney Rigdon] Sydney Rigdon apparently split his time between visits to Mentor and preaching obligations in northern Portage Co. Before summer he relocated his family from Bainbridge to Mentor, occupying a cabin on the Orris Clapp farm in that village. (10)

-- Apr 16, 1827
[Joseph Smith] Samuel Harrison Smith begins to work for Lemuel Durfee, Sr., in payment for use of the house where the Smiths reside. (3)

[Lucy Mack Smith] Lemuel Durfee notes that Samuel H. Smith begins working seven months to pay him for the Smith family's continued residence on their farm. (5)

-- 1827 June
[Joseph Smith] Joseph Sr. tells Willard Chase that some years previous a spirit had appeared to his son Joseph Jr. and informed him about a book or record of gold. (3)


Footnotes:
1 - http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org/joseph_smith_timeline
2 - http://josephsmithpapers.org/TimelineOfEvents.htm
3 - Inventing Mormonism:Tradition and the Historical Record, H. Michael Marquardt Wesley P. Walters. A Chronology of Mormon Origins, p.xxvi
4 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
5 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
6 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
7 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
8 - http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/JS_Polygamy_Timeline.htm
9 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
10 - http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm


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