Footnotes
In February 1873, Lydia Goldthwaite Knight McClellan authored a preface to Knight’s history and explained that the creation of his history was his “dying request.” She stated to her readers that she had “done the best I could” in compiling the work although “considerable” portions of Knight’s journal were “kept on detached pieces of paper, and no doubt many interesting & valuable portions are lost.” (“Lydia Knight’s Statement,” 1, in Knight, History.)
Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.
Compare “History of Joseph Smith,” published serially in the Times and Seasons beginning 15 March 1842.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
At least three pages separated from what is apparently the earliest of these three manuscripts are housed in Lydia Goldthwaite Knight, Genealogical Records and Correspondence, 1833–1883, BYU.
Knight, Lydia Goldthwaite. Genealogical Records and Correspondence, 1833–1883. BYU.
“Newel Knight’s Journal,” 46–104, in Scraps of Biography. Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883).
“Newel Knight’s Journal.” In Scraps of Biography, Faith-Promoting Series 10, pp. 52–128. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 9 Apr. 1872.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Footnotes
JS History, vol. A-1, 44; see also Historical Introduction to Revelation, July 1830–A [D&C 24].
JS History, vol. A-1, 51; see also Historical Introduction to Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830 [D&C 27].
Knight, History, 127–128.
Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.
Knight, Autobiography and Journal, 21.
Knight, Newel. Autobiography and Journal, ca. 1846. CHL. MS 767.
See Romans 9:28.
See Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 58 [1 Nephi 22:17].
“William” is perhaps William Stringham, one of the Colesville converts and Newel Knight’s brother-in-law. Joseph and Polly Peck Knight’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Polly, had become the target of a local priest’s tirade against the Church of Christ. According to Newel Knight’s recollection, the priest “had chosen my sister Polly as a mark for his abuse,” but in an exchange of letters with Polly, “the priest was so decidedly used up, that he was glad to give it up, and back out completely whipped.” (Knight, History, 143–144; see also Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 202, 300.)
Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.
Porter, Larry C. “A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816–1831.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1971. Also available as A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816–1831, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).