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. Letter For My Wife Rebuttal, Part 6: The Early Church - The Translation [B]Two topics that are often misunderstood in Latter-day Saint circles are those of folklore and what is sometimes termed "folk magic." When we hear those words, as a people we tend to think of something negative or spiritually dangerous. Black and Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 6:3355; Susquehanna Co, PA, Wills and Administrations, 18121921, vol. 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. George Harper to David Hotchkiss, May 16, 1792, Hotchkiss Collection, Broome County Historical Society, Binghamton, New York. He was also educated and his son Jesse Lane served as a local Justice of the Peace. a sturdy but somewhat eccentric man, he was also remembered as the wealthiest Methodist in the valley.298 After decades of struggle and hardship, the Hale family had acquired the furnishings of genteel living. But in her draft history she also suggests Isaac Hale was briefly involved in treasure digging activities as well. 214. He likely consolidated the recent converts into specific congregations and provided some organization in the valley. Hamilton divided her land into affordable lots and sold them to new settlers which increased the population of the valley. Relations between Young and Emma steadily deteriorated. 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. The first two men to have frame homes built along the east bend of the Susquehanna River were also prominent Quakers who brought their Society of Friends beliefs with them from southern Pennsylvania. The early settlers grandchildren recalled years later how their families brought with them many of those old Connecticut notions and prejudices, which shaped their daily activities such as avoiding beginning to plow or plant on a Friday (considered an unlucky day) or making sure the moon was in the right quarter to begin planting to guarantee a good crop. 4 Emma Hale (1804-1879). Susquehanna County Deeds, History, 18381856, volume F-1 [1 May 18448 August 1844], History, circa June 1839circa 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. Wells Town Clerk, Land Records, F:9. However, as the time passed Isaac had concerns about Joseph's character and history. Emma left permanently with her husband in September 1830. Matt Kirk and Corey McQuinn, Hartgen and Associates, Inc. Rhoda was born the same year as Emma and the two were age mates who lived on neighboring farms and likely interacted together a great deal.253 Since Isaac expected his sons to provide a home for their new brides, it is likely David and Rhoda lived in the Hale log home. Stanley and Betty Coryell,Skinner Family History, 11. On his deathbed Isaac could not resist mentioning Joseph Smiths name, while Joseph wrote in his own history how his wifes father had acted under Divine providence in his defense.316. David Hale as cited in Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 103. After Isaac Hale established a farm, he returned to Wells to marry Elizabeth Lewis. 268. Emma left the Susquehanna Valley and the Hale family for the last time, never to see her parents and many other relatives again. Thomas Smith died 2 April 1885 aged 64 years. Isaac was born on March 21st, 1763 in New Haven, New Haven, Conn.Isaac's father is Reuben HALE and his mother was Diantha WARD.His paternal grandfather was Samuel HEALD and his paternal grandmother is Judith HODGE; his maternal grandparents were Arah WARD and Phebe TOWNER.He had two brothers and two sisters, named Reuben, Boy, Antha and Naomi.He was the second oldest of the five children. However, overall it seems that Isaac was not happy with his daughter's relationship with Joseph. . Some of it was even shipped overseas. This meant Joseph was under the necessity of taking her elsewhere.18 Not long after Joseph married Emma, however, the two lived briefly in the home as Joseph began his work and prepared to move into his own home. Archaeologists have noted, it was common in the 18th century to dispose of household refuse near where it was generated. While helping Josiah Stowell look for the rumored Spanish silver, Joseph Smith Jr. took lodging on the rocky farmstead of the Hale familyan unproductive lot running from the riverbank north to Oquago Road above the floodplain. While the early treasure lore Stiles collected may have been more accurate than much of the gossip about treasure typically shared during the period, his own search for and failure to find any gold was unremarkably average. Hales sons and a son-in-law, also caught dozens of eel in the nearby river and smoked them for later consumption.145 Most settlers were trying to provide basic needs for their families and built little more than the necessities eventwo decades after the window tax. Kidds surrender put the entire coast in an uproar when the constables arrested him penniless and found less than 100,000 pounds sterling hidden with his friends for safekeeping. . 185. John Comfort, a fellow Methodist and Isaacs close companion in community leadership, regularly wrote to his son Silas, after he left their valley to study for the ministry, and described the changes in their community as they occurred. Emma Hale Smith (1804-1879), wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, was born July 10, 1804, in the Susquehanna Valley in harmony township (now Oakland), Pennsylvania, to Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale, the first permanent settlers in the valley. Isaac Hales son-in-law Michael B. Morse later lived on high, rocky ground at the north end of the Hale farm. Details of the assessment and the value of the Hale log home in relation to those listed for others in the valley suggest Isaac and Elizabeth Hale had a comparatively large 900 square feet of living space in a 1 1/2 story log structure, but the building had no windows in the upstairs garret and few if any downstairs.136 The Hale family swept their garbage out the doors of their home into the yard as did all Americans during the late eighteenth century; this was not a sign of an unkempt family.137 The artifact scatter of broken ceramics, food scraps, and other items found around the Hale log home suggests the place where the family lived for approximately twenty years, and where Emma was born, originally stood on foundations repaired and reused for their later frame home. 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. 151. After the Buck difficulty, instead of nearly all the families being pious, not but two or three were to be found entitled to that sacred epithet.175 The community still gathered for social interaction on the Sabbath, but they held their Sunday meetings in the local log schoolhouse and read from Thomas Paines Age of Reasoninstead of the Bible. 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. Soon lumbering became a major activity along the river from as far north as Cooperstown, New York, and south beyond the Susquehanna Valley to the German settlements in Lancaster County. George Edward Anderson, 1909, Courtesy LDS Church History Library. While boarding at the Hale house in Harmony, Pennsylvania, Joseph Smith met Emma and began courting her. There must have been a good mill seat in addition to an emotional connection between the sacred site and Bucks Native American upbringing since Buck built a sawmill on the river there. Ausburn Towner,Our County and Its People: A History of the Valley and County of Chemung, From the Closing Years of the Eighteenth Century(Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1892), 466; and Hamilton Child,Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chemung and Schuyler Counties, N.Y. for 18681869(Syracuse: Journal Office, 1868), 107. 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. 15, no. They listened to one sermon in the forenoon, and then came back to the canoe and ate dinner, then went back to second service; Daniel Buck was minister. Arah began to build a second, larger home until the dam to his mill gave out and destroyed his home and livelihood. Did Isaac Hale like Joseph smith? (From ChatGPT). 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. Trial Notes, Scribe A and Trial Notes, Scribe B.. 2 (1988): 1739. Alva was to give each of the other sons $25.00, and the daughters, including Emma, would receive what would be proper. Isaac also requested that he be buried on his own land back of the garden near the line betwixt me and Joseph McKune, Jr.289 Isaac was always a man of solitude, and so it was perhaps natural that he chose not to be crowded in the cemetery a few hundred feet away with all of the other graves, but the spot he selected was right next to the home where his son-in-law Joseph Smith had livedalmost as if he were still protecting his family from that place. 68. Pickering family correspondence notes Lurenas mother lived with her in the Susquehanna Valley but would return to her sons in Vermont when Lurena left for Massachusetts. The amiable Miss Fanny Winters married Benjamin Comfort on May 12, 1829,The Susquehanna Register4, no. Larry C. Porter, Reverend George LaneGood Gifts, Much Grace, and Marked Usefulness,BYU Studies9 (Spring 1969): 327. David Hale also served as a school superintendent.308 But while respectable and well off, using their log home as the local school for a period, the Hale family did not all have the same education as did the Comfort family. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. 200. Forscutt, Commemorative Discourse on the Death of Mrs. Emma Bidamon.. Quary was responsible for capturing smugglers, but this time he was convinced the men he captured were not just smuggling goods into Pennsylvania but had taken a detour somewhere to bury Kidds famous treasure in its mountains.65 Where, he did not know. Isaac Hale | A Court of Thorns and Roses Wiki | Fandom Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103. 173. While activities of the Rodsmen climaxed in 1801, the use of rods began in the late 1780s as Nathaniel Jr. approached adulthood and started courting. These reports are on file in the Historic Sites Division. 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. 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. de Doina Babcinschi. Alongside W. W. Phelps, Emma Smith compiled a Latter Day Saint hymnal, published in 1835. Context suggests this tax was for sugar houses, special buildings where the residents distilled their maple sap into a usable product. Susquehanna Cheers 100 Years(Susquehanna, Penn. It was the effectual, fervent prayer which prevails. Alva Hale, Letter to His Brothers and Sisters, February 20, 1842, Wilford C. Wood Museum Collection, Bountiful, Utah. Emma Smith N/A: N/A . Bartlett, Crawford and Stearns Architects. This suggests the rear addition to the Hale frame home must have been added during that 18191822 period when there was fluctuation in the value of the Hale homes on their property. They were married on January 18, 1827 at South Bainbridge, N.Y. 5 At the Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith home in Manchester, New York. But none of the Hale children married into prominent local families. League of Women Voters,This is Luzerne County(Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: League of Women Voters, 1963), 14. He has an almost strictly sexual relationship with Feyre. Headstones of Isaac and Elizabeth Hale. 212. 172. 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. A later reminiscence ties the name Harmony to Henry Drinker Jr.s land agent John Hilborn. She described one of these homes in which achinkin the wall was its only window, the panes being irregular bits of glass fitted in as well as they could be, and in dark weather it was necessary to light a candle to do the washing.. It reads in part: return to the undersigned commissioners for the county aforesaid at their office in Montrose in alphabetical order, the names and sir names of the taxable inhabitanse (sic) in your township, and and (sic) of all the property within the same, made taxable, together with a just evaluation viz. The graveyard was already in use a decade before the McKune family moved into the valley. Frank M. Eastman,The Law of Taxation in Pennsylvania(Newark, N.J.: Soney & Sage, 1909), 4552. Lewis was apparently later ordained an Elder.197 But circuit riders regularly visited the local congregations and preached in the Susquehanna Valley throughout Lewiss tenure as a preacher. The youngest Hale son, Reuben, could write well enough to serve as Joseph Smiths scribe, and the younger daughters were apparently also educated. Skilled farmers could grow a little of both wheat and barley when managed properly, but they never became major crops. Emma told her mother they were called Mormons, a development that occurred after they had left the Susquehanna Valley. Such were the circumstances on the farm during the early settlement period as well. Quaker John Hilborn was the best educated man in the valley. 298. Mary Bryant Alverson Mehling,Cowdrey-Cowdery-Cowdray Genealogy: William Cowdery of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1630, and His Descendants(n.p. Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Monument Site Improvements: Hale Precontact Site and McKune Barn Site, Rensselaer, New York: Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc, May 2012. Let come what will, youve got to bear ittaint no use to flinch. Jacob C. Ullery,Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont(Brattleboro, Vt.: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894), 5354; John E. Goodrich, ed.,The State of Vermont: Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783(Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Co., 1904), 20809. 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. Although most of this frame home later burned in an 1865 fire, and was rebuilt into an even larger home by the carpenter James Tillman in the early 1870s, there is enough evidence from the original frame home to determine some significant aspects of its appearance and character. Isaac Hale (Guitarist) - Overview, Biography She may have waited for an ecstatic religious experience to bring her into the faith similarly to many others. Paul,History of Wells,3334. 33. See Timothy Pickering to Levi and James Westfall, June 15, 1825, Susquehanna County Property Deeds, 5: 41819; Samuel and Mary Hodgdon to James Westfall, April 21, 1823, Susquehanna County Property Deeds, 23: 61516; Israel and Patty Skinner to Joseph McKune, Susquehanna County Property Deeds, 23:616. Pickering,Chronological History of Plants,vii-xvi. In May 1829, Emma and Joseph left Harmony and went to live with David Whitmer in Fayette, New York. . Near the end of that year, an assessor appraised the Hale family 15 x 30 foot log home as worth $26.133 The tax assessment noted they lived on a 150 acre farm owned by Charles Francis, using either an alternate name for Tench or that of an as yet unidentified son.134 Isaacs brother-in-law Nathaniel Lewiss family was also listed as occupying 100 acres of Charles Franciss farmland just west of the Hale family that included a 15 x 28 foot log home and a log stable of unspecified size.135 Francis paid the tax for the land, not Isaac Hale or Nathaniel Lewis. During that year, Buck was charged with teaching false doctrine, leading some members of his congregation to try removing him from his position. Letter For My Wife Rebuttal, Part 6: The Early Church - The Translation Stone hoe used by Onandaga women to grow corn, found on Hale Farm. In 1777 fifty-nine-year-old grandfather Ward was killed at Addision, Vermont, while fighting against General Burgoyne and a large Native American force that had mostly come from the Susquehanna Valley in northern Pennsylvania after 1,200 American soldiers burned their villages and massacred their families.22 In 1780, when Hale was seventeen, he enlisted, along with his uncle David, to fight under Colonel Ebenezer Allens command as they sought to prevent Canadian military raids into the Mohawk Valley. 304. 280. He yet preaches some.287 The following year Comfort noted, old Br Lewis preaches some yet he & sister Lewis enjoys good health for such old people.288. 137. In 1842, when the Ladies' Relief Society of Nauvoo was formed as a . Menu and widgets Isaac Hale, McKune Cemetery, Oakland, Susquehanna Co., PA, Find a Grave, posted 29 June 2002 (memorial no. Musket strike plate (left); antler handle (right), found on Hale Farm, Collection of. 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.. 312. 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. A curved foundation wall on the west side of the home may have been part of the original log home cellar. [citation needed] As she had in Kirtland, Emma Smith lead "the work of boarding and clothing the men engaged in building [the Nauvoo temple]". Nevertheless, white settlers developed their own mines in search for hoped riches. Joseph Smith Jr., who was a passive employee of Stowell, said, I was put to board with a Mr. Isaac Hale, of that place,JSP, H1:236. Commonwealth vs. Erastus Fink, September 4, 1827, Quarter Sessions Docket, Susquehanna County, 3:107. 168. Related Topics: Joseph and Emma Hale Smith Family, Hymns, Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. Even though he was farming rented land nearby, David was still tied to his father, and his father paid taxes on both homes as residences on his property.252 Twenty-nine-year-old David married his neighbor Rhoda Jane Skinner in 1822. Privacy Policy. If so, it served as school, church, and residence for a period.256. 94. John led the Methodist congregation in Wells when his first son was born in a log cabin in the village in 1801, the same year the Rodsmen movement peaked and then collapsed, Elder John Lewis, Elial T. Foote Papers, 2:37; and Paul,History of Wells,119.