Chaffee,History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 721. Peck notes that the woman who taught at the school attended the services but lived in Windsor and commuted to work. Upham,Life of Timothy Pickering,4:11923; Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,95. Timothy Pickering to Rebecca White Pickering, February 21, 1808; Rebecca Pickering to Timothy Pickering Jr. March 27, 1808. 234. Emma Smith and the Pain of Polygamy | by Holly Hardy | Medium By the time Cooper published his novel, game was already harder to find, and Isaacs profession had largely become a romanticized occupation of the past. 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. He had no other wife but me; nor did he to my knowledge ever have. While the Hale property changed owners, Pennsylvania sold 9,000 acres of remaining land in the valley to Colonel Timothy Pickering Jr., a Harvard graduate, intellectual, military officer, and politician. 18008 Bothell Everett Hwy SE # F, Bothell, WA 98012. This Presbyterian Tarble family remained friends with the Hales, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,120. While boarding at the Hale house in Harmony, Pennsylvania, Joseph Smith met Emma and began courting her. 14. (an old stone face down beside 140) 141. Six years had passed since then. 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. 258. 146. His tombstone bears this inscription, 'The body of Isaac Hale, the hunter, like the cover of an old boo, its contents torn out and stripped of their guilding, lies here, food for worms, yet the work itself shall not be lost, and it will appear once mor As "protecting the morals of the community" became her mission, Smith supported the public confession of sins; on this subject, Smith called the women of Nauvoo to repentance with "all the frankness of a Methodist exhorter. Isaac A. Chapman,A Sketch of the History of Wyoming(Wilkesbarre, Penn. Related Topics: Joseph and Emma Hale Smith Family, Hymns, Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. George Washington had invited Pickering to negotiate a settlement with the Seneca Indians in western Pennsylvania which the Colonel did with such success that Washington made him Indian commissioner to the Iroquois. 140. Commonwealth vs. Jason Treadwell. This suggests that Emma was in the room at breakfast while the other women in the household were not, and she may have provided board for guests in the homeincluding the Josiah Stowell work party. His Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smiths Ohio Revelations(2009) is a landmark study placing the revelations received by Joseph Smithin historical perspective. 85. King, A Comparative Midden Analysis of a Household and Inn in St Marys City, Maryland,Historical Archaeology22, no. 242. 29. Ritchie,Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates, 175. This negative depiction appears to have been more rhetoric than reality for Bishop Asbury as it was for Colbert. On October 2, 1812, the men in the valley gathered in Lanesville at the home of John Comfortthe home Isaac Hale had built for Pickeringand they elected Comfort as Harmony Townships Tax Assessor with Hale as his assistant.237 The two men quickly visited the farms and workshops in Harmony, Pennsylvania, relying on detailed standardized instructions to determine a value for each familys property.238 Isaac Hale taxed himself in this first assessment for two homes, the original log home and a new frame home. Isaacs son David later erroneously claimed his uncle Nathaniel Lewis had served with his father during the Revolutionary War and the two men together had heard Ethan Allen swear, and so were not afraid of bears.75 Hale had served under Ebenezer Allen, not the more famous Ethan; and it was Davids grandfather Nathaniel Lewis, not his uncle who was then not quite eleven years old, who had enlisted as a private in the army and served for eight days the year following Hales service.76 Davids mistaken memory may have been due to his recalling stories of his fathers involvement with Ethan Allen in an attempt to create a new state out of northeastern Pennsylvania. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103. 205. Others also consistently agreed the workmen boarded with Isaac Hale. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Harmony, September 25, 1847. Isaac and Elizabeth Hale were opposed to the relationship, disapproving of Josephs religious pursuits and his work for Josiah Stowell, who had hired Joseph to help him dig for purported lost Spanish silver in the area. 35. Isaac Hale (1763-1839) FamilySearch 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. Pickering,Chronological History of Plants,vii-xvi. His lack of education and resources contrasted with Emmas respectable situation, but she was immediately impressed with his character and morals. As early as 1779 these trees bore the marks of great age.38 It was here at those trees that some of Sullivans soldiers gathered to plan their raids on the nearby villages near traces of an Indian village on the north side of the river where Josiah Stowells workmen would later look for a lost silver mine east of what would become the Hale property.39 The rest of the valley had small campsites built along the trail hidden from view for use by hunting or trapping parties making their way through there.40. 26. They sometimes buried brass kettles and other valuable metal not for later use in cooking but to protect their treasure from theft until it could be dug up and cut into decorative pieces for adornment.102 But there is no evidence they made any of their silver jewelry from locally mined ore. Hale traveled from Connecticut along the newly opened turnpike to southwestern New York until he arrived at Ouaquaga village or Old Oquago,which straddled the Susquehanna River four miles south of what would eventually become Colesville, New York.30 Major General John Sullivans soldiers had already burned Ouaquaga to the ground and massacred hundreds of Onondaga tribal members and recently settled Tuscarora families before Hale arrived, leaving corn in the fields, apples in the orchards, and tools scattered about the ground. 215. During the Jason Treadwell murder trial, part of the testimony hinged on Treadwells eating breakfast at the Hale home the morning after the murder. The Lord will have respect to thy cries, and by his judgments he will cause some of them to see their folly and repent of their sins; but it will be by affliction that they will be saved. He selected a piece of property in the Susquehanna Valley for what he called his plantation, ordered long lists of specific trees and vegetable seed from distributors in England, and hired two menIsaac Hale and Nathaniel Lewisto clear part of thirty acres of land during the winter of 1800-1801 in anticipation of his settling the area. and visited at the house of Isaac Hale, Joe Smith's father-in-law, when she was seventeen years old. 195. 59. 263. This is discussed in detail below. isaac hale father of emma smithnatural hair salon hyde park, chicago. As he entered into a valley where the river turned and headed west, Buck was caught by the Onondaga men he followed and his life threatened. Royal R. Hinman, comp.,A Historical Collection from Official Records, Files, &c of the Part Sustained by Connecticut, During the War of the Revolution(Hartford: E. Gleason, 1842), 25, 29. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,57. 245. The younger Pickering, a Harvard graduate like his father, resigned his navy commission on May 2, 1801, left Massachusetts on the stagecoach one week later, and eventually walked from the end of the turnpike, through Pennsylvanias mountains into the Susquehanna Valley and to his fathers land. After the half starved Colbert ate with a nasty dirty woman and her nasty children, he established a black class in the valley west of Willingborough and then headed home.182 Methodist classes were loose associations that gathered for Bible study and provided organized service to help the needy in a community, and the white members of the community typically organized classes independently from their black members.183 This class would have operated without formal support or direction and would not have taken religion over the mountain to the Susquehanna Valley. [11] It was titled A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints[13] and contained 90 hymn texts but no music. Isaac Hale, Affidavit,The Susquehanna Register, and Northern Pennsylvanian,May 1, 1834, 1; see also Mormonism,The Republican,3, no.10 (July 23, 1835): 1, where the affidavits are reprinted. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The comforts Lucy observed may have included running water. 288. The Harmony Turnpike connected the valley with villages in New York and would later form the eastern boundary of Oakland Township when it was created December 1853, Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,100. 119. She later wrote in an interview with her son, Joseph Smith III: "In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us. Joseph Anderson, ed.,The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, from the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five(New Haven: The Price and Lee Company, 1896), 1:398, 581, and 712; and Mary Audentia Smith Anderson,Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale(Independence, Mo. Nancy Mess has suggested Eclectic Man may have been a brother or son of J.W. to designate an old town of the Tuscaroras.267 She was likely incorrect about the tribal affiliation of the ruins, since others have argued the Onondaga lived on the west side of the Susquehanna River and the Tuscarora lived on the east side. (Isaac divided up a farm he had sold to his son Jesse and sold the northern rocky portion to Morse and the southern arable portion to his son-in-law Joseph Smith); but Morse may have planted Indian corn somewhere else more susceptible to mountain shade, such as Isaacs island in the middle of the river, which Morse plowed late in the season on July 11 and 13, 1828. Upon news of her fathers death, Emma seemed to feel she could now write her mother and siblings. Elder Lewis [prayed], Send the mind of the people up the river down to me, and the people down the river (the Presbyterians) may go to hell, and I care not. Mrs. Stid, at the same meeting, [prayed]: O Lord, take Capt. After Ruper sold his land to Tench Francis; however, the Hales clearly knew who owned their land. Mudge,American Camp-Meeting Hymn Book,11. In 1813, Jesse Hale turned twenty-one and reached legal adult age. While the group developed and disappeared before Oliver Cowderys birth, since he was later gifted in working a sprout or rod, his father or other later associates of his may have been involved and shared a knowledge of using divining rods with him. 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. Food remains found on the Hale property include bones from turkey, mammals (such as squirrels), and small birds (such as passenger pigeons).129 A local historian recalled how in some years there were millions of wild pigeons available for food in the valley.130 The Hale family also made money by working leather into products and processing meat for other families in the valley.131 They left behind remains of antlers and animal bones made into handles and other implements to sell in the area.132 The Hale family did well enough relying on hunting that by the opening of the nineteenth century they began to assemble many comforts. Stocker noted in his account of this difficulty (Centennial History of Susquehanna County,550), Mr. If anyone was engaged in it [the Rodsmens treasure digging activities], it must have been the old gentleman, Oliver Cowderys father, she surmised. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,102; Wells Town Clerk, Land Records, Wells, Vermont, E: 9; Wells Town Clerk, Land Records, Book A: 23; William C. Sharpe,History of Oxford: Church Records, Births, Marriages, Deaths, etc. Lewis, Lewis Family Collection (15501984), gives the dates of birth for the children as, Elizabeth, November 19, 1767; Nathaniel, May 27, 1769; John, October 3, 1770; Esther, May 31, 1774; Jekiel, August 20, 1776; Molly, June 9, 1779; Reuben, January 13, 1782; Amos, April 7, 1785. 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. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Cowdery continued a scribe for Smith until the Book of Mormon was completed as I supposed and understood. 233. See the comments of Methodist James Hamilton, Esq., in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Letter, April 11, 1818, Thomas Hamilton Papers (17891830), Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Most settlers along the Susquehanna also acquired some cash through selling their timber downriver which they could use to pay taxes, purchase window glass, nails, cooking implements, and other essentials. Pvt Isaac Hale (1763-1839) - Find a Grave-reminne And Alva was born November 29, 1795. 36. 118. 69. Jesse Hale, Harmony Tax Assessment, Susquehanna County, 1813. Thomas and Mary Buck Tarble became part of the same Presbyterian community near Ouaquaga village where Josiah Stowell served as a deacon.After her husband Thomas was killed in an accident and buried on Abel Stowells farm, Mary moved to father-in-law John S. Tarbeles home a little south of the Hale family. While the missing tax records allow the second Hale home could have been built any time before October 2, 1812, it is not likely it was built too many years before that date. It was during this troubled period that other religious denominations began to appear in the valley. Daniel Buck settled his young family in the middle of the Susquehanna Valley at Painted Rock, a site later known as Red Rock, because Native American inhabitants had used red paint to depict various figures, apparently turning the site into a ritual setting or sacred location.104 This was also the location of the Indian burying-ground in the area.105 The land at Painted Rock was not good farmland and before the railroad came through the area it consisted largely of a picturesque blend of massive freestanding rock formations and steep cliffs. 241. Mrs. Arthur Webb argued the name meant crooked river, but she does not provide a source for her conclusions and writes too late to have worked through a native speaker, Mrs. Arthur Webb. [22], Emma and her family lived with friendly non-Mormons John and Sarah Cleveland in Quincy, Illinois, until Joseph escaped custody in Missouri. In 1842, when the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formed as a . [citation needed] She often took in young girls in need of work, giving them jobs as maids. In a short time they returned, bringing with them a Peter Ingersol, and subsequently came to the conclusion that they would move out, and reside upon a place near my residence. 176. 6 Moved to Wells, Albany Co., New York (later in Rutland Co., Vermont), ca. Many had already left for education, or to follow spouses who preferred to live elsewhere. The similarities in name, location, and activities can easily lead to confusion between the two men. Then the elder Pickering came back to the valley to take his son away for better medical treatment. He then returned to Palmyra, and soon after, Alva, agreeable to the arrangement, went up and returned with Smith and his family. David rented the entire James Westfall property in 1825 and thus controlled the potential silver mine on the Westfall farm.258 The Westfall family continued to pay the tax for the James Westfall home indicating someone, likely the Widow Westfall, continued to live there. 246. Andrew Tracys 17991801 diary, as cited in Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,11516; Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,431. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, April 8, 1837. Alva Hale, Letter to His Brothers and Sisters, February 20, 1842, Wilford C. Wood Museum Collection, Bountiful, Utah. Robert Quary, a new customs collector for Pennsylvania, captured two of Captain Kidds seadogs inland in Pennsylvanias interior and spread the alarm that Kidds ship had been near the Pennsylvania coast. Posted by June 29, 2022 amelie zilber brother on isaac hale father of emma smith June 29, 2022 amelie zilber brother on isaac hale father of emma smith Although most of Hales meat went downriver on arks bound for the Philadelphia market, or for export to Europe, his own family also relished game at their table.127 In Isaac Hales will he left instructions for the care his sons were to provide for their mother, specifically mentioning their duty to maintain . However, overall it seems that Isaac was not happy with his daughter's relationship with Joseph. Jesse reduced the value of Isaac Hales land on appeal by $150.00. 207. As a native of Cape Cod and a South Sea man, born to Mary and Gershom Lewis in Gilford, Connecticut, Nathaniel Lewis grew up in shipping and worked for a time as a sailor.63 He also lived on the Connecticut coast within view of Gardiners Island where Captain William Kidd purportedly buried stolen silver before moving to Block Island to negotiate his surrender for piracy. Alva remained in the valley with his family and cared for her. Isaac Hale (1763 - 1839): Father of Joseph Smith's lawful wife, Emma Smith. If Blackman was counting from the date she wrote her account in 1872 it would put Elizabeths conversion to 1822, probably too late since most of her family joined much earlier. Caleb Carmalt & wife to Isaac Hale, July 31, 1833, Deeds, Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Sharpe,History of Oxford,12. 113. . [1]:7 Hiding the plates in his coat, he descended down the hill after many hours, and instead of taking them home, Joseph hid the plates. Remembering Emma Hale Smith - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Call us at (425) 485-6059. Both Isaac and Elizabeths families came from the villages of New Haven County in Connecticut before settling in Vermont, which may have contributed to an emotional bond between the two. Isaac continued to be taxed on two homes from 1816 until 1819. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,102. John D. Monroe,Chapters in the History of Delaware County, New York(Delaware, New York: Delaware County Historical Association, 1949), 8997, 109. Elizabeth Wasson moved with her husband to nearby Colesville in late 1829. Harmony, Pennsylvania | Doctrine and Covenants Central Hand-painted tea cup and Saucer, found on Hale Farm. The following publications provide further information about this topic. When the deeds were all registered and the debts paid, the 130 1/2 acre Hale farm included the 90 acre Rose section and 40 1/2 acre Carmalt section and was likely a subset of the original 150 acres for which Hale was taxed in 1798. 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. They seem to have thought of it. As the first lady of Nauvoo, she hosted diplomats in her home, made public appearances with Joseph at civic and community events, and presented political petitions in support of the Church and her husband. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,57. The artifacts have been placed in bags and marked storage boxes and can be accessed in the collections of the LDS Church History Museum. Shortly before this, Joseph had initiated the Anointed Quoruma prayer circle of important church members that included Emma. [20], On November 6, 1832, Emma gave birth to Joseph Smith III in the upper room of Whitney's store in Kirtland. 283. 131. . Robert H. Rose, letter to Isaac Hale, January 2, 1810, Deeds. Shortly after Daniel Bucks Congregationalist community fell into disarray, and the Quakers began to establish themselves in the valley, MethodismAmericas fastest growing religion at the timefirst arrived in northeastern Pennsylvania. The bridges loose stones were worked out of its walls the previous spring when Jason Treadwell, a local sandy hair, red bearded, cross-eyed prankster accused of murdering Oliver Harper, had frantically pulled them out searching for a hidden four hundred dollars he claimed was placed there. However, since Drinker was himself a Quaker, it is likely that the name reflected the sentiments of both owner and agent. Hale and Lewis also built two houses for him, a log one in 1801 and a large, frame, three-story structure in 1805.149 Colonel Pickering drew detailed plans for the home and for a large barn that included specific instructions as to how each space should be arranged and used.150 Hale and Lewis became the poor neighbors whom he has employed [who] view him with the respect and affection of children to a father.151, As Isaac Hale reviewed Pickerings instructions and learned to build the Pickering home, he likely gained experience and ideas he later used in building his own home. 37. Susquehanna County Deeds, History, 18381856, volume F-1 [1 May 18448 August 1844], History, circa June 1839circa Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,35. Headstones of Isaac and Elizabeth Hale. 1828 Susquehanna County Tax Records. Emma and her family remained rich in real estate but poor in capital. 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. The copyist added Joe Smiths wife next to her name to preserve her famous status but did not include her baptismal date which is now lost. 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. Sherman Day outlined Roses management of Carmalts lands and suggests he acted as an agent for Carmalt when the latter left the region. . Mark Lyman Staker serves as a Senior Researcher in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and has beeninvolved in historic sites restoration for more than fifteen years. Isaac Hales assessment was not crossed out and lowered with the others, perhaps because his was considered a larger commercial like operation. This is the same Oliver Cowdery, whose name may be found in the Book of Mormon. It is possible these early diggings continued as time permitted but most of the focus in the valley was on settling the land and making a living.
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