262. Call us at (425) 485-6059. 181. Jesse Hale served in various elected positions including superintendent of the local schools for District 3 while John Comfort served for District 1. Richard BEST died 2 May 1867 aged 48 years. 1833, June 14, 1832. At that time her baptismal date was given simply as ditto marks underneath Alva Hales baptismal date of January 11, 1797. to my great mortification & surprise I find it greately to the contrary. But the cultural divide was not only due to differences in attitudes about refinement, gentility, and the role of a good house in conferring these, it was also partly due to a lack of ownership or attitudes that come with ownership of property in the Susquehanna Valley. She was the same age as Oliver Cowderys older brother Warren and could name some of the individuals involved with the Rodsmen but was uncertain of Cowdery family involvement. Isaac later described Elizabeth as my esteemed friend and wife of my youth.56 His perspective of husband and wife relationships is suggested in later trial testimony where Isaac recalled a neighbor had asked if he could borrow a canoe to carry his wife and children down to Munsons [Tavern] where his wifes mother lived. Hale responded, I told him [the] canoe was not fit to carry women in.57 Hale also shared the view of his contemporaries that a prospective husband needed to have a home and property prepared for his prospective bride to set up house before he could marry her.58 When Isaac left Vermont, Elizabeth was barely thirteen. Even though Rose was wealthy and from the Philadelphia elite, he was still influenced by popular culture of his day which suggests the cultural context of the Endless Mountains where the Hale family lived. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,57. 36. On January 17, 1827, Joseph and Emma left the Stowell house and traveled to the house of Zachariah Tarbill[12] in South Bainbridge, New York, where they were married the following day. She noted they were a lovely intelligent and highly respectable Family, and their home and farm did honor to the good taste of the intelligent proprie.12 The Hale mansion fit into a class of homes described by Early American historian Richard Bushman as middling mansions.13 Their recently expanded home helped give the Hale family a level of vernacular gentility that had recently found its way into the remote valleys of the Endless Mountains. thursday morning perhaps nine oclockwas a number standing aroundJason spoke to me & said would wish to speak to meI slipd around the log house & he asked me if I had seen Ashbel Munson & Hill told him I had seen them . Blackmans use of the phrase a little deluded suggests in her published history the Hale family initially believed Joseph Smiths revelations. . The only library in the region for many years was his personal collection he allowed others to use. Just another site. Larison,Sylvia Dubois, 57. 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. ; The character development appearing in later volumes received mixed comments by Isaac Hale and Sam Kusek from the same site. Sawmills quickly developed all along the river and the remaining waterway was filled with large arks and rafts taking lumber down the Susquehanna to Lancaster County where it was unloaded and carried in wagons 100 miles overland to Philadelphia. Benson Bobrick,Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution(New York: Penguin Books, 1997),50-51, 148. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 2:132. Paul,History of Wells,3334. Cowdery continued a scribe for Smith until the Book of Mormon was completed as I supposed and understood. . . Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference, 49. Emma Smith letter to Joseph Smith, Mar.7, 1839, in Joseph Smith Letterbook 2, 37, josephsmithpapers.org. Isaac contested 40 acres of the assessment, arguing a son-in-law, Michael B. Morse, lived on 27 acres, and a son-in-law, Joseph Smith Jr., lived on 13 acres of the land, and they should pay the tax for their part of his property. at whose house the apostles, and traveling evangelists, frequently preached, and were entertained. Adam Clarke,The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, The Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorised Version, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts with a Commentary and Critical Notes(New York: Methodist Episcopal Church, 1831), 2:890. This local awakening had more in common with the Second Great Awakening that would begin in a few years, however, since it attracted the unchurched in the area until nearly all the families in the valley offered morning and evening prayers.168 Both the Hale and Lewis families were caught up in this awakening, and the parents took their one-year-old sons, Alva Hale and Levi Lewis, to Buck for baptism.169, John B. Buck, a grandson of Daniel Buck, recalled years later, after the valleys Congregationalists had transformed themselves into Presbyterians, how during the 1790s the congregation, was scattered up and down the river, in cabins. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 578. Isaac Hale had initially welcomed Smith when he came to Harmony, Pennsylvania where Emma grew up, looking for a place to stay and continue his translation of the Golden Plates from which the Book of Mormon would be translated from. This I refused, and gave my reasons for so doing; some of which were, that he was a stranger, and followed a business that I could not approve; he then left the place. Personalities in the Doctrine and Covenants and Joseph SmithHistory. I have selected the standard spelling for use here, see Sarah M. Kimball, letter to Marinda Hyde, January 2, 1848, Marinda Hyde Papers 18381849, CHL; Nauvoo Stake High Council Minutes, October 27, 1839, (rough book), CHL; and Oliver Cowdery, Diary and Nauvoo High Council Minutes (fair copy), 2728, CHL. John RATHBORN died 12 May 1836 aged 87 years. 16. Although Raymond Bailey noted It is thought [Emma] . 286. 119. Other sermons he listed under the name Isaac Hales as having preached in the Hale home were based on the texts, Luke 11:28, Rom. GraciaN. Jones, My Great-Great-Grandmother Emma Smith, Ensign, Aug.1992, 3036. Matt Kirk and Corey McQuinn, Hartgen and Associates, Inc. When Lucy Smith recalled years later her visit at the Hale home in autumn 1828, she described the home as amansion that included convenient appendage necessary. Since the dimensions of the Isaac and Elizabeth Hale home and its proposed layout were similar to the Joseph and Lucy Smith frame home in Manchester, New York, Lucy must have focused on something other than size in her exuberant description. See Lydia Dimock Searle, Diary, June 1832Nov. 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. Her family was glad to see her. Tell us. The term South Sea man applied to all men who lived the southerly part of Barnstable, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod). 233. The following year, most of these additional houses were removed from the tax record, and the number of pounds of sugar produced on each property was included instead, confirming sugar houses were the focus of the tax. Outline of Hale home basement, as suggested by archaeology. The Smiths lived in the homestead until 1843, when a much larger house, known as the "Mansion House" was built across the street. His father was the leader of a Methodist class in their home.78 Two of young Nathaniels brothersJohn and Levi Lewisjoined several years later and also became heavily involved in Methodism. Their father, Isaac, spent his time in the backwoods and had no known formal education. The Comforts named their son born May 15, 1811, Isaac Lewis Comfort. The Lewiss neighbors considered them the poorest family in town, and about 1780 or a little later when the first traveling Methodist preacher arrived in their region, he asked for the poorest family and the neighbors sent him to the Lewiss door. 96. She was baptized on 28 June 1830, shortly after the Church was organized. Nancy Mess, Historical Scraps from Susquehanna, unpublished manuscript in the authors possession and on file at the Lanesboro Town Hall, Susquehanna Depot, Pennsylvania. [18] She saw upholding morality as the primary purpose of the Relief Society. Not everyone in the Hale family participated in the search for silver, however, as Isaacs brother-in-law Nathaniel Lewis seems to have separated his family from these efforts. Soon after this, I was informed they had brought a wonderful book of Plates down with them. Rose could be forceful in business affairs, and the local postman at the county seat found this new creditor cheated him.235It was Rose who had inaccurately advertised wheat would grow so well in the valley. 9. She likely lived at the school during the week. Wells village in the central valley became the center of business in the township, while the northeastern portion of the town where the Lewis family lived did business in the village in neighboring Middletown Township where a booming settlement began to develop. . Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,36; John Comfort to Silas Comfort, Harmony, September 25, 1847, John Comfort Correspondence, George Fisk Comfort Papers, Syracuse University Special Collections. Others worked up or down river.One of these mill operators left an account of the rafting that played a role in his mill operation, noting, I stayed in that country about eight years and labored very hard rafting on the Susquehanna River, and many times my life was much exposed. Zera Pulsipher, History of Zera Pulsipher, typescript, Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. The best circumstantial argument for the Hale family using their log home briefly as rental property comes immediately after the 1825 tax assessment when Isaac Hale no longer pays taxes for the log home but Jeriah Mumford & Co. comes into the valley and rents four homes. Emma had already assisted Joseph as a scribe during the early stages of the Book of Mormon translation. 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. In it you will find the words of eternal life.290 Isaac died and was interred below the garden on his farm. 66. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103. Welch was listed variously as a Lieutenant, Captain, and on his tombstone as a Major. By then, her father had reconciled with her new husband, and Isaac Hale had offered the Smiths a place in the valley. A photograph of the map is in the authors possession. Meat, in fact, became the major form of currency in the region; when Isaac Hale and Nathaniel Lewis first settled the valley, they exchanged meat for help on their farms, and it became the custom to give cattle, or truck, as payment for work.124 During those early settlement years, Isaac Hale could easily have been a model for Nathaniel (Natty) Bumppo, the Leatherstocking in James Fenimore Coopers novel The Pioneers: or, The Sources of the Susquehanna, which reflected a larger than life heroic hunter dressed in buckskin with Indians as his closest friends. Emily Blackman, Susquehanna County, in William H. Egle, ed.,An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania(Harrisburg: De Witt C. Goodrich & Co., 1876), 1019. Glass looking was a common scam in which the glass looker claimed to have the ability to find buried treasure for a fee. He did not add any value (and hence no tax) to the Morse land but increased the Smith land value by $150.00. Onondaga projectile points, found on Hale Farm, Collection of the LDS Church. 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. I have named one of the judges Scribe A (see Trial Notes Scribe A) as he recorded the following testimony, confirming the log home still stood in May 1824. Vogel, Michael Morse Interview with William W. Blair,8 May 1879,Early Mormon Documents,4:34344. 162. 104. In addition to all the testimonies above we also have the testimony of Mr. Isaac Hale, Emma Smith's father, and this man didn't pull any punches with his opinion about his son-in-law's lifestyle. Against the wishes of Emma's father, Emma and Joseph married on January 18, 1827. George Q. Cannon described Isaac Hale and his family as bitter opponents of Joseph Smith and his work, George Q. Cannon,The Life of Joseph Smith,The Prophet(Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1888), 93. Photograph by Mark L. Staker. In June 1844, the press of the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper published by disaffected former church members, was destroyed by the town marshal on orders from the town council (of which Joseph was a member). [citation needed] Emma herself held stock in the Society. Nevertheless, white settlers developed their own mines in search for hoped riches. 172. [19], Joseph and Emma returned to Harmony for a time, but relations with Emma's parents broke down, and the couple went back to staying in the homes of members of the growing church. I have interpreted Blackmans fifty years as a round number meaning for a long time. Since Blackman only mentioned Elizabeth as a consistent member and not Isaac, either he was a late joiner or had not initially been consistent. Emily C. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, from a Period Preceding its Settlement to Recent Times(Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1873), 103. Longtime Harmony resident John Comfort called it the Susquehanna Valley, John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, December 24, 1836, Syracuse University Archives, Syracuse, New York. 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. A grandson recalled the family gathering around Isaacs bed on January 11, 1839, as he charged them, You must not believe in Jo Smith or any false doctrines, but believe in the Holy Bible. http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/miscill3.htm#043079. Trial Notes Scribe A.. and our While in 1820 this may have principally been Isaac Hales meat trading in major commercial markets in the southern part of the state, it may have also been an early indication of David Hales store operation, 1820 U.S. Census, Harmony, Pennsylvania. Done was the only Methodist family in the place, and he was as deeply involved with the Rodsmen as were his neighbors.90 Perhaps the only reason Clark felt he could call Mr. Several of the Hales neighbors made a living weaving, some producing skilled work, and the county encouraged carpet weavingoffering a prize at the annual fair for the best piece of carpeting, Cattle Show and Fair,Susquehanna County Herald,2, no. He then went out of the house pretty soon about the middle of the day., Joshua McKunethink the first time I saw Treadwell after he returned from down the river was on Thursday early in the day after he had been talking at Mr. Hales around the log houseI had seen Treadwell before but had no particular conversationafter he went from Hales house I went in company with him I entered into conversation with him respecting the murder of Oliver Harper.. The young prophet was installed therein not exactly to the satisfaction of the other members of the family. 270. I am grateful to Mary Parks for giving me access to the tavern and helping foster research on the history of the Susquehanna Valley in numerous ways. During the earliest settlement period or before, the oldest and most commonly used name for the villagewhere Daniel Buck and Isaac Hale first met, Oquago, was attached to the mountain where Hale settled. REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN --- This brief bio text was created by Tim Troxell, who initiated Mr. Hale's memorial: Isaac Hale was born to Reuben and Diantha (Ward) Hale. Tim Pickering grew increasingly ill after his marriage to Lurena and the birth of his son. The newlyweds then settled six miles north of Litchfield in Goshen, Connecticut, where their first child was born November 19 or 20, 1767.71 They named her Elizabeth Lewis. The Susquehanna Land Company bought its land from Connecticut, but Pennsylvania also claimed ownership and bloody skirmishesthe Pennamite Wars erupted between Yankee and Pennsylvania settlers, and the most recent conflict was still not fully resolved. It was there that he met Emma Hale, daughter of . 140. Timothy Pickering Jr., Drawings and Instructions for a House in the Country, The Timothy Pickering Papers, 17451820, 45:4955, Massachusetts Historical Society. 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. Peck,Early Methodism,306. 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. What had been a small denomination ridiculed by members of the established Churches, a denomination that in Harmony included shouts of praise, falling to the floor in religious ecstasy, and above all direct and immediate answers to prayers, had become the largest denomination in America by 1820. ), his question mark after the date expressing some uncertainty as to when Buck was replaced. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,102. 199. Journals from the region indicate women held tea parties frequently.248 Many fragments of white kaolin clay tobacco pipes suggest that men also gathered at the home to socialize.249. They returned to Pennsylvania in December 1827 to live near her family and work on the translation of the Book of Mormon. 17. During the French and Indian War, he enlisted in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 22, 1762, in the 2nd Regiment 9th Company to fight under Captain Archibald McNeil who took part of his regiment to Havana, Cuba, to avenge Spanish involvement in the conflict. Another distinctive stone carver with a number of headstones in the larger Colesville area is Eclectic Man, who included a variety of masonic symbols on his stones suggesting the involvement of the deceased in that organization. Here in part is his opinion; 305. She became a physical witness of the plates, reporting that she felt them through a cloth, traced the pages through the cloth with her fingers, heard the metallic sound they made as she moved them, and felt their weight. 299. Ritchie,Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates, 175. Upon Joseph's death, Emma was left a pregnant widow. 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. Jesse Hale, Harmony Tax Assessment, Susquehanna County, 1813. Asbury wasnt particularly impressed with the area, noting in his journal, The heights of the Susquehanna are stupendous; the bottom lands very fertile; but this river runs through a country of unpleasing aspect, morally and physically. I checked these facts after listening to a recent podcast with Grant Palmer here. After contesting the 1828 assessment, Isaac was taxed for 63 acres of unimproved land and 28 acres of improved land, consisting of two acres of first rate land that included a kitchen garden and large work area around his house, 16 acres of second rate land along the river that included a pasture for his sheep, and ten acres of third rate land between his home and the mountain that included an orchard just north of his home, wetlands north of the orchard of little agricultural use except for as afee area for pigs, and sugar maple trees in the rocky, ascending portions to the north. The log home would have included a large open space that was useful for such types of gatherings. Presumably he was promoted during the war and served in all three positions. Her son Joseph SmithIII became president of the Reorganized Church at its founding in 1860, with his brother Alexander Hale Smith as his counselor. 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. See discussion below of this Joseph Smith land in 1832 for additional insight. Bartlett, Crawford and Stearns Architects. 161. George Ruper owned their land only briefly after he acquired it from Pennsylvania. Emma, who was more than ordinarily communicative, December 4, 1867; and Visited Mrs. Bidamon, relict of Joseph Smith the Martyr. 5 Member of Methodist church. Strale,United States Catholic Intelligencer,September 21, 1832, 415. Whaley,History of the Township of Mount Pleasant,1012, and Appendix VI, argued Samuel Stanton built Henry drinker and John Hilborns frame homes a few miles east of the Hale family in 1789. 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? Appear in a new and more beautiful edition, The epitaph likely came from an 1840 collection of the writings of Franklin that appeared shortly after Isaac Hale died since it was a modified form of Franklins epitaph first appearing in an appendix of the volume and claiming a Franklin contemporary had reworked the epitaph and showed it to Franklin for his approval. Net Worth: $1 Million - $2 Million (Approx.). Born in 1790, she spent much of her later life attending tea parties and religious events. This may help explain why Isaac Hale purchased less land than he occupied in 1798. She remembers Emma, afterwards the wife of the Prophet, as a handsome and attractive girl, about her own age. They most frequently got it from Spanish treasure ships. 297. Both options had their advantages but the Delaware was so popular for residents of the Susquehanna Valley that the village of Deposit eventually grew up nearby, and Hale Eddy, a spot on the river just below Deposit, became a staging area to prepare lumber for spring shipments. Isaac claims, "Smith stated to me he had given up what he called 'glass-looking,' and that he expected and was willing to work hard for a living." (Isaac Hale, father of Emma Hale Smith, History of the Church, Vol.1. When he did share limited information with her, she struggled, shifting her perspective and support over time. One historian argued that unsatisfied greed, hurt pride, and infectious hatred motivated Isaac Hale. This negative depiction appears to have been more rhetoric than reality for Bishop Asbury as it was for Colbert. The Hale log home never reappeared in the records and thus by the time Mumford left town in 1831 the building was no longer a residence and was repurposed to house animals or store supplies. 117. . When a visiting minister came to the Susquehanna Valley to observe Bucks congregations in December of 1797, he noted local excitement over religion had increased significantly in the previous few years and wrote in his journal, it looks like the beginning of an awakening.167, Jonathan Edwards encouragement to have boys like Buck brought up speaking local Native American languages was an outgrowth of the First Great Awakening that spread across the nation more than fifty years earlier as religious excitement sparked in congregations of religiously involved citizens, but then slowly cooled. Although he did not purchase his own land, by the end of that year he was taxed for 54 acres without cattle or taxable houses. 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. Isaac also served his country in the Revolutionary war. Robert H. Rose, letter to Isaac Hale, January 2, 1810, Deeds. 107. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. June 11, 2022 Posted by: georgia death race 2022 . 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. 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. Joseph Smith's father in law, Emma's father, the hunter and farmer and innkeeper Isaac Hale (17763-1839), was anything but a fan of his son in law. Father of Jesse Hale , David Hale , Alva Hale , Elizabeth Hale , Isaac Ward Hale and Emma (Hale) Bidamon. Report filed in the Historic Sites Files, Historic Sites Division, LDS Church History Department. While Mumford was in the township David Hale was not taxed for a residence.281 Jeriah Mumford also paid taxes on the 434 acres of unseated lands (not occupied) for which the Joseph Smith connected to Jacob Smith was first taxed for in 1823. He continued to express similar discouragement in his letters for the next decade, such as when he noted, poor Backsliden Lanesboro is left to mourn her bareness and Distance from her Duty and privilege. John Comfort, letter to Dear Children, April 8, 1837, and it is poor wicked Lanesboro still. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, March 28, 1838. He was tasked with finding and unearthing buried treasure presumed to be located there. John Comfort wrote his son on Christmas Eve 1836 of the Hale family exodus. 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. Staker and Jensen, David Hales Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon, and W. Curtis Monts, Water Transportation on the Susquehanna,Wyoming Historical and Geological Society23 (1970): 2139.

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