It is likely he drew his information from the notes of Vesta Pierce Crawford, who interviewed descendants of Emma Hale in the 1950s but likewise did not document her sources well. The village post office officially changed the name of the village from Hopbottom to Waterford in 1823 but in 1825 it changed again to Brooklyn although locals continued for many years to refer to it as Hopbottom. After these occurrences, young Smith made several visits at my house, and at length asked my consent to his marrying my daughter Emma. 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. Did Isaac Hale like Joseph smith? Hale Home. 135. 1, p. 212, microfilm 1,287,076, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL. Tell us. One of these trained ministers had a position in the Methodist church in Lanesboro. 311. 133. It now included academically trained ministers rather than uneducated circuit riders and included a formal liturgy and structured meetings where once had been primarily organic and expressive outdoor rural meetings reverberating from the mountainsides at the beginning of the century. 278. Emily Blackman, Susquehanna County, in William H. Egle, ed.,An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania(Harrisburg: De Witt C. Goodrich & Co., 1876), 1019. John Comfort, letter to Silas Comfort, Letter, February 23, 1838. Thy heart shall rejoice in the great work of the Lord, and no one shall take thy rejoicing from thee. 168. . 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. [13] The bank's demise led to serious problems for the church and the Smith family. 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. After Nathaniel Lewis joined the Methodists, he preached at his house where he established a small class and became the class leader.77 His young son Nathaniel Jr. may have been his first convert. Along with what Comfort perceived as religious decline, economic decline settled in their valley contributing to an exodus of many of the valleys second generation. 15, no. For dinner, they carried milk in bottles, and mush. Year-round running water in the home would have been a comfort worthy of notice. A man who lived seven miles upriver from the Hale family and knew little of their personal religious devotion, still may have accurately ascribed to them a general Methodist approach to religion in the region when he noted how Emma Hale as a little girl, often got the power, as did most of those with sincere religious feelings in the valley.209, J. Closets in homes were an innovation of the period and would provide additional storage space. Alvin, their first child, was born and died in this home. Hamilton divided her land into affordable lots and sold them to new settlers which increased the population of the valley. 47. 263. Lavina Fielding Anderson, ed.,Lucys Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smiths Family Memoir(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001), 430. 69. She is buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Nauvoo, Illinois. The Smiths lived in the homestead until 1843, when a much larger house, known as the "Mansion House" was built across the street. On September 22, 1827, Joseph and Emma took a horse and carriage belonging to Joseph Knight, Sr., and went to a hill, now known as Hill Cumorah, where Joseph said he received a set of golden plates. 253. 223. 258. isaac hale father of emma smith . Isaac did not indicate the men stayed at his residence,while in the same affidavit he noted his daughter Emma and her husband Joseph lived with him briefly until they would move out, andresideupon a place near myresidence.280. Her mother Elizabeth Lewis Hale died in 1842. 273. isaac hale father of emma smith. Emma thou art blessed of the Lord, for thy faithfulness and truth, thou shalt be blessed with thy husband, and rejoice in the glory which shall come upon him. Plumbing brought water from a nearby well to the house in later years, and since the well was built early and the Hale family did not have a cistern under or near the house, a hand pump likely brought water directly from the well into the kitchen during Hale occupation to make the tasks of the women easier. Lord help me to be prepared to go to rest when thou shalt remove me hence.285 The next day the oldest of Isaac and Elizabeth Hales daughters, Phebe, died. 2 They were married at the home of Squire Thomas Tarbell in South Bainbridge, New York, on 18 January 1827. But Lewis clearly increased his ties to the movement shortly after the Pickering death. 129. 115. This hard winter preceded a severe drought the following spring and on June 6, 1800, a frost hit the county that killed most crops. 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. League of Women Voters,This is Luzerne County(Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: League of Women Voters, 1963), 14. 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. For instance the scaffolding for building A. Lathrops chimney yet remains & looks as if it had withstood many a wintry storm; but the chimney is scarcely raised as high as the roof of his house.146. 99. Isaac Hale was not a Methodist during his residence in Vermont and appears to have been involved in treasure digging in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Although Mr. Hale was remembered as a stiff old Methodist, and . Isaac Hale Died: 11 Jan 1839 BillionGraves Record Stanley and Betty Coryell,Skinner Family History, 11. Together they weathered the financial collapse and threats against Josephs life in Kirtland, Ohio; the persecution of Church members in Missouri; and the separation imposed by Josephs imprisonment in Liberty Jail. It was the effectual, fervent prayer which prevails. During the Jason Treadwell murder trial, part of the testimony hinged on Treadwells eating breakfast at the Hale home the morning after the murder. A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 18161831. Emma and Joseph's descendants grew 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. The twenty-three-year-old Tim married twenty-three-year-old Lurena Cole, on December 29, 1804.156, Just as Isaac Hale and Nathaniel Lewis finished building the large Pickering mansion, Lurena Cole Pickering and her husband Tim, along with Lurenas mother (Nathaniel Lewiss mother-in-law), moved into it.157 Lurena delivered a son, Charles Pickering, November 10, 1805. Recorded in Susquehanna County Deeds, Deed to Joseph McKune Jr., 28 June 1833, as Recorded in The hunters came to trade, to sell deer meat, bear meat, wild turkeys, and the like, and to exchange the skins of wild animals for such commodities, as they wished. She remembered they often had a good time. It was on this largely unimproved farm that Joseph Smith Jr. first met Isaac and Elizabeth Hale. After offering him a ride, the man declined, saying that he was headed to Cumorah, and then disappeared suddenly. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 578. 113. Also in Kirtland, Emma's first selection of hymns was published as a hymnal for the church's use. . I am grateful to Mary Parks for giving me access to the tavern and helping foster research on the history of the Susquehanna Valley in numerous ways. George Peck, a minister who traveled through the valley along the great river bend many times during the first half of the nineteenth century called it the Susquehanna Valley, (Peck,Life and Times,455). 96. Peck notes that the woman who taught at the school attended the services but lived in Windsor and commuted to work. 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. David Hale as cited in Blackman,History of Susquehanna County, 103. He is now nearly well. B. Buck noted most residents of the valley were drawn into Methodism during this early period, but religious enthusiasm quickly waned as the fires of conviction soon died down and the valleys residents largely returned to their previous indifference.210Some members of the Hale family continued their persistent involvement in religion despite the declining interest. An individual of David Hale's age range was listed in the Isaac Hale house - hold for the year but may have been living elsewhere on the property. July 4, 2022 . Shell-edged creamware plate fragment, found on Hale Farm. Nathaniel Jr.s brother John Lewis also met and married a relative of Sarah Cole in Middletown, Rhoda Hall. Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to prove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice. See Julia A. In it you will find the words of eternal life.290 Isaac died and was interred below the garden on his farm. Picturing History: The Isaac and Elizabeth Hale home in Harmony The Susquehanna Land Company bought its land from Connecticut, but Pennsylvania also claimed ownership and bloody skirmishesthe Pennamite Wars erupted between Yankee and Pennsylvania settlers, and the most recent conflict was still not fully resolved. 79. The newlyweds then settled six miles north of Litchfield in Goshen, Connecticut, where their first child was born November 19 or 20, 1767.71 They named her Elizabeth Lewis. Presumably he was promoted during the war and served in all three positions. Trial Notes Scribe A.. [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. The courtship and marriage of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale : Susquehanna Centennial, Aug. 1627, 1953), 15. While the Spanish had discovered or appropriated gold and silver mines in Peru and other places in South America, the British had not been as successful, and so they turned to the more common way of getting goldtaking it from others. TheCommentarybecame one of the principal Methodist theological resources, and Peck indicated he had read it and believed Clarkes arguments supporting a Trinitarian view (Peck,Early Methodism,395).Peck also indicates John Comfort had access to C. Giles book,Dagon of Calvinism; or, the Young Hammerer,which may have been borrowed or owned (Peck,Early Methodism,257). . 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. She likely lived at the school during the week. For additional documentation of the Hale and Wallace wedding, see Marriage Record of Antha Hale and Joseph Wallace, Enfield, Connecticut Town Records, 16821854, Enfield, Connecticut, June 23, 1789; Francis Olcott Allen,The History of Enfield, Connecticut(Lancaster, Pa.: The Wickersham Printing Co., 1900), 2:1786. . On May 27, 1823, James Westfall died.257 Although after his death James was initially still assessed a tax for his 394 acres, which his sons Levi and Daniel Westfall paid on December 17, 1824, he was removed from the tax lists and David Hale was taxed for his 394 acres. B. Buck recalled of that early period, Everybody espoused Methodism, men, women and children. 206. He recorded the purchase agreement with Isaac Hale in the county deed book on January 2, 1810, without noting when the payment or payments for the property fell due, or if Hale would pay the debt as a single lump sum or in regular installments over an extended period.236The latter option was more likely since the Hale family only paid one dollar down and built a new, large frame home at about the same time. As part of the refinement of America that took place in Lucy Smiths childhood, the central stairway and the expansion of the upstairs as a social space in the home became important markers of the rituals of polite society. Although the Hale family was only part of the lesser gentry that put them into the highest social level only in their remote valley, their refined home reflected well on their family.245. Carol Cornwall Madsen, My Dear and Beloved Companion: The Letters of Joseph and Emma Smith, Ensign, Sept.2008, 1015. 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. Short Biographies of Joseph, Emma, and their family, http://mormonhistoricsites.org/subscribe-to-our-publications/, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brendablack&id=I1806. . If anyone was engaged in it [the Rodsmens treasure digging activities], it must have been the old gentleman, Oliver Cowderys father, she surmised. One historian argued that unsatisfied greed, hurt pride, and infectious hatred motivated Isaac Hale. 39. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Emma Hale Smith, Blessing, June 1844, typescript, Church History Library, Salt Lake City. While Hale family members continued to participate in these meetings, some members of the family may have been among the many backsliders in the valley. August 1830, Deed from Isaac and Elizabeth Hale, 25 August 1830, as Cookie Notice F. Russell Meyer,The Reverend Elam Potter(Enfield, Conn.: Enfield Congregational Church, 2002). In May 1829, Emma and Joseph left Harmony and went to live with David Whitmer in Fayette, New York. Emma first met Joseph Smith Jr. in 1825, while he boarded with her family. Everyone in the valley assisted each other in their daily tasks during social events where this combination of work and play were known as frolics. Frolics were occasions for dancing, eating, and socializing while settlers raised barns, husked corn, quilted fabric, or other tasks usually completed as a community. Perhaps because their public discussions of religion differed from what was commonly accepted, their neighbors described them as religious agitators. In 1788 more white settlers came to the valley where Hale and Buck first met, and Daniel Buck became their first minister.51 He also established a congregation in the Susquehanna Valley where the Hale family and their Lewis in-laws attended his services.52 Jonathan Bennett served as the deacon of the congregation.53. . : N.p., 1955), 86. The young prophet was installed therein not exactly to the satisfaction of the other members of the family. Ground penetrating radar suggests the railroad kept its agreement as there is a body where Isaac Hales matching headstone stands next to Elizabeths in the cemetery.294 Radar also suggests there are two bodies without headstones buried next to him. She later married Major Lewis C. Bidamon in 1847. . the LDS Church History Department. That fall, Joseph obtained the gold plates and continued his mission of being an instrument in the hands of God in restoring the gospel. Isaac Hale was not a Methodist and not exposed to the same rural religious conflicts as has confronted the Lewis family. . 9. The public was sure he had four or five times that amount.64 Conversation in many country taverns centered on Kidds treasure and where it might be located and finding the hidden horde became a popular pastime. 205. Provo, UT: Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University, 2002. 2 Isaac Hale (1763-1839) 3 Joseph Smith Sr. (1771-1840), was a treasure seeker. While there was not a single Elect Lady among the Methodists who could prophesy and reveal the will of God, many of the women among the Shouting Methodists found themselves in the woods seeking inspiration as they reminded the young they should be retiring to the grove for a solitary walk, or private devotion.185 They saw themselves as saints in the tradition of early Christianity, and their hymns encouraged them to pray, asking to see the power of God manifested.186 To reinforce this effort, they sang Ye saints, who love the Lords dear name, Who love to worship at his feet . Vogel, Josiah Stowell, Jr., to John S. Fullmer, 17 February 1843,Early Mormon Documents,4:78, 80; Vogel, Lyman Stowell Reminiscence, 1901,Early Mormon Documents,4:86. But Isaac, who did not have the same experiences in Vermont, and had resisted full involvement in Methodism for several years even when Lewis preached and promoted it, apparently had an independent spirit and was not inclined to adopt his brother-in-laws perspective. See Returned as Elected, Quarter Sessions Docket, Susquehanna County, 3: 3637, 7071, 101, 120. The wooded mountains rising from the landscape were stupendous. Soon after this, I was informed they had brought a wonderful book of Plates down with them. 317. Dubois and Pike,Centennial of Susquehanna County,73. S. Hall,The School of Good Manners, Composed for the Help of Parents in Teaching their Children(Boston: S. Hall, 1790), 1011. Joseph III called upon his mother to help prepare a hymnal for the reorganization, just as she had for the early church. In every flowr, and shrub, and tree, Gods goodness you may plainly see.187 Hymn writing became a popular pastime in the Susquehanna Valley and Justin Clark, editor of the local newspaper The Centinel,regularly published to an interested audience information in his newspaper about religious music, including locally written hymns under various pseudonyms.188, It took several more years before Methodism made its way to the Susquehanna Valley. He was a man of refined taste, a poet, and a scholar.227 Rose set up camp in the woods and used a large box of chocolate as his chair while writing his fianc a letter in which he promised her he would build her a frame house, whose habitation ought to be a palace on the mountain where he sathe soon built her an elegant mansion, on the bank of Silver lake, surrounded by one of the largest farms in the state.228 Based on his several letters to his fianc, Rose knew he would buy the land before he even investigated it, and shortly after his visit he bought the land owned by the Francis family of Philadelphia for $75,000, including the tract owned by the Hales, and on February 18, 1809, Rose formalized a new deed.229 He registered his purchase a week later on February 25 and immediately contacted Isaac Hale and the other men who headed the 150 families on his property, demanding payment.230. . [citation needed] When he and the majority of the Latter Day Saints of Nauvoo abandoned the city in early 1846, Emma and her children remained behind in the emptied town.[21]. 75. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 2:132. The brook was the familys primary source of water until they dug their well. Despite Isaacs deathbed charge to his family, after his death a rift between him and his daughter Emma and her husband seemed to no longer matter to his immediate family. 1. Town of Hingham,History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts(Hingham, Mass: n.p., 1893), 160. Nathaniel and Esther had four more children as the family struggled to make a living in the hard scrabble of their new settlement. In late 1806 Joel Smith replaced Stier and Lee as the Methodist circuit rider assigned to the Tioga circuit that included Harmony. But his involvement in the search for the mine may not have been more than an economic relationship as he rented out living space. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,105; First Presbyterian Church Records, Hallstead, Pennsylvania. Rude, irregular, uncultivated is the ground; wild, ignorant, and wicked are the people.194 William Colbert was even harsher in his evaluation of the settlers in the area when he came through in 1793, writing, It appears to me from what I have heard that Susquehanna woods abound with whores, whoremongers, and drunkards, and for all I know murderers.195. Wilkinson,Annals of Binghamton,114. Each of them had a written piece of paper which they were comparing, and some of the words were "my servant seeketh a greater witness, but no greater witness can be given him." While boarding at the Hale house in Harmony, Pennsylvania, Joseph Smith met Emma and began courting her. 239. Isaac Hale (1763-1839) FamilySearch The Lewis family arrived among the earliest settlers, and they would have spent most of their time clearing land to make it productive. Sawmills quickly developed all along the river and the remaining waterway was filled with large arks and rafts taking lumber down the Susquehanna to Lancaster County where it was unloaded and carried in wagons 100 miles overland to Philadelphia. 210. This area of Harmony Township was originally known as Lanes Mills, but was known as Lanesville during the 1820s, and in 1829 became Lanesboro, the name it still holds today. George Peck(New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1873), 68; Trial Notes of Scribe A. Peck also referred to Isaac as old Brother Hale, George Peck,Early Methodism within the Bounds of the Old Genesee Conference from 1788 to 1828(New York: Carlton and Porter, 1860), 256. Onondaga projectile points, found on Hale Farm, Collection of the LDS Church. 21:31, Isa. He did much of his hunting on Turkey Hill, across the river southwest of his home, and in the surrounding mountains. 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. Methodist circuit rider William Colbert left Lackawanna, fifty miles south of the Hale home, on Monday, December 3, 1792, heading north on horseback to take his increasingly popular religion into the Endless Mountains. Black and Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 6:3355; Susquehanna Co, PA, Wills and Administrations, 18121921, vol. Blackman noted Elizabeth Hale was for fifty years a consistent member of the Methodist church (Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,103). Isaac Hale Birth: 21 March 1763 Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut Death: 11 January 1839 Harmony, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Father: Reuben Hale (1736-1788) Mother: Diantha Ward (1741-1771) Spouse / partner: Elizabeth Lewis (1767-1842) Wedding: 20 September 1790 Wells, Rutland County, Vermont Sex: Edit Facts Since Elizabeth died in 1842, Blackmans date would put her initial conversion at 1792 when William Colbert took Methodism to upper Pennsylvania but not the Susquehanna Valley. Thomas Smith died 2 April 1885 aged 64 years. Dubois believed, Taint no use to worryit only makes things worse. . 9. Young Emma and Charles were briefly raised within the same extended family until Charles left the valley with his mother. Blackman,History of Susquehanna County,131. 112. The Westfall farm had been of local interest for years. Versaggi, personal communication to author, September 13, 2013. Some of the survivors of this massacre fled north to Canada and fought for the British in Vermont. Vogel, Frederick G. Mather,The Early Mormons. Archaeologists, personal communications to author, July and August 2014. A surveyor in the employment of Dr. R. H. Rose, while tracing a boundary line through the woods, placed his hand high on a tree to mark where the ax-man, who followed, should strike out a chip as an evidence of the line that had been run. He had been relaxing in his home when he was called upon to walk to the neighboring Treadwell home to interview a neighbor. In that remote region, we cannot conceive the farming will ever be profitable, a friend wrote.147, Pickering was part of the American gentry and had little in common with the Hale family. . Matt Kirk and Corey McQuinn, Hartgen and Associates, Inc. Tak Berkategori . B. Buck, one of Daniels grandsons, who was not there during the early years of occupation and appears to be reporting the memories of others, later suggested that what he described as the first diggings done in their area were at the Painted Rock site.106 He recalled his uncle found the foundation of a house on the island in the river at Painted Rock, where they targeted their initial digging.
