Pickerings surviving papers also provide detailed plans for construction of the second home and information about this larger structure. Since Rose came to evaluate the valley as an investment, he would have contacted some of the settlers on the land he planned to buy. It is likely he drew his information from the notes of Vesta Pierce Crawford, who interviewed descendants of Emma Hale in the 1950s but likewise did not document her sources well. 188. Joseph Smith III, Last Testimony of Sister Emma,Saints Herald26 (October 1, 1879): 290. 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. It's worth noting that this is the historical record and there might be different perspectives on Isaac Hale's relationship with Joseph Smith. See John Comfort Correspondence. 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. He watched his father bury a kettle of gold but kept it secret for many years. This is the same denomination the family belonged to while living in Connecticut. Pickering family correspondence notes Lurenas mother lived with her in the Susquehanna Valley but would return to her sons in Vermont when Lurena left for Massachusetts. 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. But as the economy continued its downward trend, all of the Hale children who could left the valley a few at a time. Emma Hale never saw her parents again after the Kirtland era. Approx. Franklin Bowditch Dexter, ed.,The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles(New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1901), 3:264, 266, 368, 488. When the saints were expelled from Illinois in 1846, Emma Smith chose to remain in Nauvoo, encouraging her son Joseph Smith III that he was to be the successor to his father's position as President of the Church. 2. [c] In July 1830, Joseph received a revelation, now known as Doctrine and Covenants section 25, that highlighted Emma Smith as "an elect lady". http://clegg-webb.com/Histories/Nelson%20Wheeler%20Whipple%20History.html. Emma served the needy: in Kirtland, she and Elizabeth Ann Whitney coordinated feasts for the poor, and in Nauvoo, she opened her home to the sick, orphaned, and homeless. Construction began in April of 1792, and by September the last of the five segments of the road was underway. Emma also compiled a second hymnal by the same title, which was published in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1841. Thou shalt ever remember the great condescension of thy God in permitting thee to accompany my son [Joseph] when the angel delivered the record of the Nephites to his care. 77. Young Smith gave the "money-diggers" great encouragement, at first, but when they had arrived in digging, to near the place where he had stated an immense treasure would be found -- he said the enchantment was so powerful that he could not see. Emma (Hale) Bidamon (1804-1879) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree 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. 97. I don't know how nine children fit in that little house. In 1788 more white settlers came to the valley where Hale and Buck first met, and Daniel Buck became their first minister.51 He also established a congregation in the Susquehanna Valley where the Hale family and their Lewis in-laws attended his services.52 Jonathan Bennett served as the deacon of the congregation.53. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,3641. 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. Kidds surrender put the entire coast in an uproar when the constables arrested him penniless and found less than 100,000 pounds sterling hidden with his friends for safekeeping. 235. 259. 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. It is clear the two men influenced each other. On being told that there was no such word in common usage, the elder said,I dont care, it was applicable.203. 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. 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 . The infant Joseph died of exposure or pneumonia in late March 1832, after a door was left open during a mob attack on Smith. Daniel Bucks Congregational churches became the foundation of the religious community in the region. [17], Emma was baptized by Oliver Cowdery on June 28, 1830, in Colesville, New York,[13] where an early branch of the church was established. See Larry C. Porter, A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 18161831 (PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1971), 118. David Hale expressed some uncertainty as to exactly when his father arrived in the Susquehanna Valley, dating the event to 1787 or thereabout.45 Buck and Hale were still up river at the Onondaga village in July of that year, but resources were quickly used up, leading them to follow the Warrior Path down river in the last months of that year or first months of the next.46 Hale wintered over in the valley, hunting to support himself and probably Daniel Bucks family. 209. Ritchie,Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates, 175. There was no means of earning money in the valley except by hunting or making shingles.122 Wood was more plentiful than wild game and most of the settlers focused on it as their main commodity. By then, her father had reconciled with her new husband, and Isaac Hale had offered the Smiths a place in the valley. Levi Fry settled in the low mountains on the northeastern border of Wells Township just east of the Lewis family. Isaac Hale (Guitarist) - Overview, Biography . Whatever his text might be, after a short introduction, to fightfatalism,was always the subject and object of his discourse.200His opposition to predestination and to determinism fit comfortably with the emphasis of Free Will Baptists who were also successful in the region and took many of his members.201When John Gould, who would later become a follower of Joseph Smith, was busily establishing Free Will Baptist congregations in 1818, he drew primarily from Nathaniel Lewiss Methodists in the same areas and formed a group in Choconut village in Susquehanna County.202, One day when Nathaniel Lewis was preaching to a small group of individuals in the area, some unruly boys disturbed the meeting to such an extent that the elders patience gave way, and he upbraided them as the mosthogmaticalset of scoundrels he ever saw. Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants and Joseph SmithHistory. The scenery!5. The brook was the familys primary source of water until they dug their well. The Onondaga and Oneida tribes had carried out extensive trade in beaver pelts for silver jewelry and other items from 17801821, and had become skilled silversmiths of their own work. Tavern owners needed a license from the county to operate their business. Comfort apparently disagreed. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,485, emphasis in original. "[14][15] In Harmony on June 15, 1828, Emma gave birth to her first childa son named Alvinwho lived only a few hours. They frequently walked from five to six miles to be present at prayer-meetings.198The shift in religion was not as universal as he suggested, however, and Bucks congregations down river in Great Bend and up north in Bainbridge continued. 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. Colbert met with a Presbyterian minister as he traveled, perhaps Daniel Buck, and after a deep conversation he noted of the minister, he believes it is his duty to pray in secret, but says he has not heart to itthis is his complaint. [21] According to the minutes of the founding meeting, the organization was formed to "provoke the brethren to good works in looking to the wants of the poor, [search] after objects of charity [and] to assist by correcting the virtues of the female community". Seehttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brendablack&id=I1806, accessed November 5, 2014, for possible details on Ward family history. Details of the assessment and the value of the Hale log home in relation to those listed for others in the valley suggest Isaac and Elizabeth Hale had a comparatively large 900 square feet of living space in a 1 1/2 story log structure, but the building had no windows in the upstairs garret and few if any downstairs.136 The Hale family swept their garbage out the doors of their home into the yard as did all Americans during the late eighteenth century; this was not a sign of an unkempt family.137 The artifact scatter of broken ceramics, food scraps, and other items found around the Hale log home suggests the place where the family lived for approximately twenty years, and where Emma was born, originally stood on foundations repaired and reused for their later frame home. McCune, George Moody, ed. King, A Comparative Midden Analysis of a Household and Inn in St Marys City, Maryland,Historical Archaeology22, no. Do you know of any Joseph Smith documents that we might not have heard about? 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. I inquired of Joseph Smith Jr., who was to be the first who would be allowed to see the Book of Plates? It was said, that Harris wrote down one hundred and sixteen pages, and lost them. The Smiths lived in the homestead until 1843, when a much larger house, known as the "Mansion House" was built across the street. 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. "[11] She served as president of the Relief Society until 1844. In response to Emmas invitation, Isaac and Elizabeth Hales children who had already left the Susquehanna Valley settled farms within visiting distance of the city of Nauvoo, although they elected to not live within the Mormon community. If David Hale did not have access to the Westfall home, as the tax records suggest, his parents log home was not his only other option. 301. It is clear in the family correspondence, however, that the death occurred the year before on May 14, 1807 (see Timothy Pickering Jr. to John Pickering May 3, 1807 where Timothy IIIs death is added at the bottom of the letter in pencil noting it occurred May 14 [1807]; cf. Husband of Elizabeth (Lewis) Hale married 20 Sep 1790 in Wells, VT. Descendants. . Pickering,Chronological History of Plants,vii-xvi. Joseph and Emma lived for about two months in Emma's childhood home before moving to a house nearby. The play takes place in the Hale home in Harmony, Pennsylvania, where Isaac Hale lives with his wife, Elizabeth, and his strong- willed daughter, Emma. 267. Part of this letter is written in Emma Smiths hand and part in Joseph Smiths hand. 262. . 62. 179. Others also consistently agreed the workmen boarded with Isaac Hale. The headstone, made by Eclectic Man, included visual symbols from Harpers life.4, As the group rattled closer to Harmony Township, they traveled the last section of the turnpike in an experience described by a later newspaper reporter as like being rolled in a barrel. He insisted the turnpike could guarantee the traveler a shaking he will not forget in a month. But the reporter acknowledged, And what is the one thing that would atone for so many inconveniences? During this period, the Wood family and some of their neighbors accepted Nathaniel Woods religious doctrines, and this growing group began meeting together in Middletown. 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. August 1824 Session, Quarter Sessions Docket, 18241832, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, Pennsylvania. 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 . He was considered one of them but not in all things.31, One day Buck tried to follow some of the Onondaga men south as they slipped away to gather salt at a hidden spring. Nathaniel returned to the war briefly as he enlisted a fourth time and served in Vermont.74. 212. Even the elite where Isaac lived as a boy put resources into discovering precious metal. Emma became its founding president,[7] with Sarah M. Cleveland and Elizabeth Ann Whitney as her counselors. The tax valuations of log homes in the valley tended to fall into specific ranges that suggest they had common elements. It was among the earliest land occupied by white settlers in the valley. Robert H. Rose, letter to Isaac Hale, January 2, 1810, Deeds. In December 1827 Joseph began work on the Book of Mormon. Clarke, Methodist Episcopal Church, Lanesboro, Penn. Susquehanna County Historical Society. 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. Joseph and Emma in a home nearby while he translated most of the Book of Mormon with Oliver Cowdery serving as scribe. Emma and Joseph met when he boarded at her fathers inn while working in the area. 40. Isaac and Elizabeth Hale had few expenses during their early years. Timothy Pickering to Rebecca White Pickering, February 21, 1808; Rebecca Pickering to Timothy Pickering Jr. March 27, 1808. 237. 124. 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. While helping Josiah Stowell look for the rumored Spanish silver, Joseph Smith Jr. took lodging on the rocky farmstead of the Hale familyan unproductive lot running from the riverbank north to Oquago Road above the floodplain. A Congregational minister traveled through the region in 1789 and appointed Daniel Buck as the local pastor. While Lewis maintained the operation of the local congregation, circuit riders continued to come through the valley. 88. This would explain the August 23, 1877, account reported by theBainbridge Republicanthat relied heavily on William Purples account of Joseph Smiths trial for glass looking, but may have had other sources at its disposal as well. It helped shape their place in that community as the residence of a pious, Christian family. Mudge,American Camp-Meeting Hymn Book,11. It may have reached the end of its usefulness and was torn down. 26. As the Hale family and their relatives in the valley joined Methodism one or two at a time over a period of several years, the son of Timothy Pickering Jr. died and Nathaniel Lewis moved his family into the larger Pickering home.223 The Lewis family lived in the large home until Pickering sold it to John Comfort in 1808 and gave Lewis a years notice to move his family out.224 This happened just as land ownership in the valley shifted and the settlers were finally forced to resolve their land titles. David followed on March 6, 1794. . Methodist circuit rider William Colbert left Lackawanna, fifty miles south of the Hale home, on Monday, December 3, 1792, heading north on horseback to take his increasingly popular religion into the Endless Mountains. 2 Isaac Hale (1763-1839) 3 Joseph Smith Sr. (1771-1840), was a treasure seeker. 4:5 . 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. As president, Emma taught the women doctrine, managed membership, and publicly defended principles of moral purity. George Peck,The Life and Times of Rev. After the Hale family built their own mansion during the time of the Comfort conversions, the two families had a great deal in common. Isaac Hale Birth: 21 March 1763 Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut Death: 11 January 1839 Harmony, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Father: Reuben Hale (1736-1788) Mother: Diantha Ward (1741-1771) Spouse / partner: Elizabeth Lewis (1767-1842) Wedding: 20 September 1790 Wells, Rutland County, Vermont Sex: Edit Facts 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. Alva was to give each of the other sons $25.00, and the daughters, including Emma, would receive what would be proper. Isaac also requested that he be buried on his own land back of the garden near the line betwixt me and Joseph McKune, Jr.289 Isaac was always a man of solitude, and so it was perhaps natural that he chose not to be crowded in the cemetery a few hundred feet away with all of the other graves, but the spot he selected was right next to the home where his son-in-law Joseph Smith had livedalmost as if he were still protecting his family from that place. Marjorie Catlin Roehm,The Letters of George Catlin and His Family: A Chronicle of the American West(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 810. The 1798 tax records list a couple of sawmills in Willingborough Township and indicates the valley had a few frame homes. Amy Wallace, Gold Lures Geologists to Connecticut,The New York Times,July 8, 1986, accessed April 10, 2015, www.nytimes.com/1986/07/08/science/gold-lures-geologists-to-connecticut.html. Smith and Bidamon bought and renovated a portion of the unfinished Nauvoo House in 1869. 42. In the course of her prayer she besought the Lord in behalf of her father, and the force and efficacy of that prayer entered into his heart with such power as to lead him to faith in Christ the Lord.217 Isaacs commitment changed as he listened to the wailing of her young heart in his behalf while Emma prayed aloud in the woods as the preachers encouraged.218, By the time George Peck became the circuit rider coming through the Susquehanna Valley in 1816, he held his meetings in the home of Brother Hale. Peck found in the region such weeping and shouting [as] I have seldom heard or witnessed.219 The village of Hopbottom (named after the prolific hops that grew in the area), twenty-four miles south of the Hale home, became known as Hoppingbottom, as illustrative of the manner in which the Methodists exhibited their joy, in times of the outpouring of the Spirit, in leaping up and down.220 When Peck preached a sermon in the parlor of the Hale home, he based it on Isaiah 12:6, Cry out and shout, thou inhabitants of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.221. The young women in the McKune family married most of the prominent men in the township. Emma Smith: My Story, Who is Emma + Movie Details Nationality: United States. Other sources give November 20 as the birth date, Lorraine Cook White, ed.,The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002), 23: 140; Grace E. Pember Wood,A History of the Town of Wells, Vermont from its Settlement with Family and Biographical Sketches and Incidents(N.p. Dubois and Pike,Centennial of Susquehanna County,73. Josephs mother, Lucy, noted, he boarded a short time with one Isaac Hale, Anderson,Lucys Book,361, italics added. ; The character development appearing in later volumes received mixed comments by Isaac Hale and Sam Kusek from the same site. 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. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton, 10708. 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. 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. The Joseph/Jacob Smith land was apparently used for lumbering. 29. 25. Cowdery continued a scribe for Smith until the Book of Mormon was completed as I supposed and understood. When her son Joseph III became president of the RLDS Church, she was again asked to compile a hymnal. isaac hale father of emma smith - sujin-shinmachi.com 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. These artifacts were in the upper layer of the topsoil and Isaac Hale likely knew of an earlier Native American presence on his property.96, Near Ouaquaga village where Daniel Buck and Isaac Hale first lived, the new settlers developed an intense interest in buried wealth. Elizabeth Hale connected herself to the Methodists early and may have been the one Hiel Lewis had heard about, confusing the details, but Isaac remained distant.190, Frederic Stier and Timothy Lee first arrived in the Susquehanna Valley in 1805 and found most of their success there in 1806.191 When Stier and Lee brought Methodism it resulted in a general revival of religion which swept along that portion of the Susquehanna Valley as the popular movement replaced Bucks Congregationalism.192 Lee did not list any Hales among his converts, but missing names in the records was not unusual as most individuals caught up in local revivals were not numbered among the short list of convertsparticularly if they were already baptized.193. . Richard L. Bushman,The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 115. : Susquehanna Centennial, Aug. 1627, 1953), 15. He may have also sailed ships himself. 278. 285. . Charles W. Upham,The Life of Timothy Pickering(Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1878), 4:5. 7 vols. There were also other features in the home that could have impressed Lucy. The manner in which he pretended to read and interpret, was the same as when he looked for the money-diggers, with the stone in his hat, and his hat over his face, while the Book of Plates were at the same time hid in the woods! There would not be a gristmill within twenty miles for another two decades and the family likely ate little grain themselves. 298. Emma's continuing public denial of the practice seemed to lend strength to their cause, and opposition to polygamy became a tenet of the RLDS Church. 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. Alva placed matching headstones on his parents graves. August 1830, Deed from Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, 25 August 1830, as John and Rhoda married and joined the Methodists in 1789, then moved to Wells village where John became a Methodist preacher.86 Levi Lewis, a younger brother, also moved to the village where he operated a tannery and served as the Sunday School superintendent.87 As John moved from Middletown, Nathaniel Jr. continued to live there until he married Sarah at the Justice of the Peace in February 1790.88 Since his family noted Nathaniel Jr. continuously preached from the time he was eleven, it is likely Nathaniel preached Methodism in Middletown, but it did not go well as most families remained involved with the Rodsmen and Lewis saw few if any converts. Early settlers referred to the place where the river entered Pennsylvania as the east bend and where it returned into New York as the west bend, while the entire river as it passed through the valley was the great bend.41 Although the valley remains officially unnamed, early residents along this great bend called it the Susquehanna Valley.42 During the twentieth century that name has generally come to refer to a much larger region that includes the entire river drainage system through upper Pennsylvania.
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