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Smith, Alvin

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11 Feb. 1798

Asael Smith Family Bible, 9; JS Family Bible; Tunbridge, VT, Town and Vital Records, 1785–1878, vol. A, p. 130, microfilm 28,990, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Asael Smith Family Genealogy Record, [13]; JS History, 1834–1836, 10.

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Asael Smith Family Bible, 1795–1950. Private possession. Copy of genealogical information at CHL. MS 19012.

JS Family Bible / Joseph Smith Family Bible, ca. 1831–1866. Private possession. Copy of genealogical information in Joseph Smith Sr. Family Reunions Files, 1972–2003. CHL.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Asael Smith Family Genealogical Record, ca. 1817–1846. CHL. MS 8605.

JS History, 1834–1836 / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1834–1836. In Joseph Smith et al., History, 1838–1856, vol. A-1, back of book (earliest numbering), 9–20, 46–187. Historian's Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, box 1, vol. 1.

–19 Nov. 1823.

JS History, 1834–1836, 10; Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 73; “Alvin Smith,” General John Swift Memorial Cemetery, Palmyra, Wayne Co., NY, Find a Grave, posted 9 Apr. 2002 (memorial no. 6333883), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6333883/alvin-smith (accessed 6 Sept. 2022).

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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).

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Farmer, carpenter.

Walker, “Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family,” 256.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Walker, Kyle R. “The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family: A Family Process Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Household.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 2001.

Born at Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vermont.

Tunbridge, VT, Town and Vital Records, 1785–1878, vol. A, p. 130, microfilm 28,990, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Son of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack.

JS History, 1834–1836, 10; Asael Smith Family Bible, 9; Tunbridge, VT, Town and Vital Records, 1785–1878, vol. A, p. 130, microfilm 28,990, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Asael Smith Family Bible, 1795–1950. Private possession. Copy of genealogical information at CHL. MS 19012.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Moved to Randolph, Orange Co., 1802; returned to Tunbridge, before May 1803.

Anderson, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith, 67; Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 45; Tunbridge, Orange Co., VT, Town and Vital Records, 1785–1878, vol. A, p. 402, microfilm 28,990, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; JS History, 1834–1836, 10; Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 17n19.

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Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith. Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom Came to America between the Years 1620 and 1685, and Settled in the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1929.

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Moved to Royalton, Windsor Co., Vermont, 1804, and to Sharon, Windsor Co., by Aug. 1804; returned to Tunbridge, by Mar. 1808.

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 56; Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 18–19, 24.

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Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Returned to Royalton, by Mar. 1810.

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 56.

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Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Moved to Lebanon, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, 1811; to Norwich, Windsor Co., 1813; and to Palmyra, Ontario Co., New York, 1816–Jan. 1817.

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 56, 58, 66; Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 3, [4]–[6], [9]; Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 24, 28–29n46, 31–32; Coray, Notebook, ca. 1841–ca. 1850, 25; Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 5:384.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Smith, Lucy Mack. History, 1844–1845. 18 books. CHL. MS 2049. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.

Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton. Notebook, ca. 1841–ca. 1850. BYU.

Vogel, Dan, ed. Early Mormon Documents. 5 vols. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996–2003.

Played prominent role in family economy, working to pay for 99.5-acre farm at Farmington (later Manchester), Ontario Co., jointly articled for with his father, 1820.

Anderson, “Reliability of the Early History of Lucy and Joseph Smith,” 26; Walker, “Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family,” 256; Anderson, Lucy’s Book, 170; Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 70–71.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Anderson, Richard Loyd. “The Reliability of the Early History of Lucy and Joseph Smith.” Dialogue 4 (Summer 1969): 13–28.

Walker, Kyle R. “The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family: A Family Process Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Household.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 2001.

Anderson, Lavina Fielding, ed. Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001.

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Supervised construction of Smiths’ frame home in Manchester.

Porter, “Study of the Origins,” 71–72; Walker, “Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family,” 256.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Walker, Kyle R. “The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family: A Family Process Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Household.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 2001.

Supporter of JS’s claims of heavenly manifestations.

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 88–90.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Experienced severe stomach cramps, perhaps caused by appendicitis, 15 Nov. 1823; situation was apparently complicated by overdose of calomel.

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 87–89.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Died at Palmyra.

Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches, 87–89; JS History, 1834–1836, 10; Anderson, “Alvin Smith Story,” 69; “Alvin Smith,” General John Swift Memorial Cemetery, Palmyra, Wayne Co., NY, Find a Grave, posted 9 Apr. 2002 (memorial no. 6333883), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6333883/alvin-smith (accessed 6 Sept. 2022).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Smith, Lucy Mack. Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet and His Progenitors for Many Generations. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “The Alvin Smith Story: Fact and Fiction.” Ensign, Aug. 1987, 58–72.

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