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Joseph Knight Sr. Personal details; Born: Joseph Knight November 26, 1772 Oakham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America: Died: February 2, 1847 (aged 74) Mount Pisgah, Iowa, United States: Baptism Date: 28 June 1830: Residence: Colesville, New York (1808–1831) Liberty, Missouri (1833–ca. 1840) Nauvoo, Illinois (ca. 1840–1846) [1]
Smith and the leaders of his church also began teaching and baptizing in Colesville, New York, near Smith's home in Harmony, where his friend Joseph Knight Sr. lived. The Colesville meetings were "well-attended" and led to several baptisms, particularly after word got out that Smith had performed an exorcism of one of Joseph Knight's sons. [167]
Smith was transported to South Bainbridge, New York. His two-day trial took place in late June, ending on July 1, 1830, [14] and he was defended by two attorneys hired by Joseph Knight. [15] Smith was acquitted. [16] Immediately after his release, however, he was arrested again and transported back to Colesville for a second trial; he was ...
Newel Knight (September 13, 1800 – January 11, 1847) [1] was a close friend of Joseph Smith and one of the first branch presidents in the Latter-day Saint movement. Born at Marlboro, Vermont, Knight was the son of Joseph Knight, Sr. and Polly Peck. [1] When Newel was about eight years old his family moved to Colesville, New York.
It is uncertain whether this occurred in the home of Peter Whitmer Sr. in Fayette, New York, or whether it occurred in the log home of Joseph Smith Sr. near their property in Manchester, New York. Soon after this formal organization, small branches were formally established in Manchester, Fayette, and Colesville. Although the purpose was to ...
On a number of occasions, Smith's followers credit him with the casting out or warding off of evil spirits and demonic presences. In one tale, when visiting the house of Joseph Knight of Colesville, New York, in April 1830, Smith cast Satan out of Knight's son Newel. [10]
A man who once ran more than 100 nursing homes from an office over a New Jersey pizzeria has pleaded guilty in connection with what federal prosecutors called a $38 million payroll tax fraud scheme.
The early life of Joseph Smith covers his life from his birth to the end of 1827. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, the fifth of eleven children born to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith. By 1817, Smith's family had moved to the "burned-over district" of western New York, an area repeatedly swept by religious revivals during the Second Great Awakening.