| Apr 12, 1819 | GH describes the basics of 19th century school as "reading, writing, and arithmetic." | Gideon Hawley | Direct |
| Jan 1829 - Dec 1829 | In 1829, JS describes the translation of the Record of Nephi. | Joseph Smith, Jr. | Scribed Verbatim Direct |
| Oct 22, 1829 | A letter from JS to OC, scribed by FGW. | Joseph Smith, Jr. | Scribed Verbatim |
| Jan 15, 1831 | Phelps comments on limited education of Joseph, Harris, et al. | E. D. Howe | 2nd Hand Reprint |
| Feb 1, 1831 | PR describes translation of BOM, highlights JS's lack of education. | Palmyra Reflector | Unsourced Journalism |
| Mar 3, 1831 | Letter from JS to HS, with spelling mistakes. | Joseph Smith, Jr. | Scribed Verbatim Direct |
| Mar 9, 1832 | AL describes how he will run as a representative and uses his legal knowledge to bolster his campaign. | Abraham Lincoln | Direct Reprint |
| Jun 1, 1832 | JS educated in reading/writing basic math. | Frederick G. Williams | Scribed Verbatim Direct |
| Jun 1832 | JS obtained the plates in 1827 and commenced translating them then. | Joseph Smith, Jr. | Scribed Verbatim Direct |
| Aug 4, 1832 | William McLellin: Joseph published the BOM in 1830. | William McLellin | Holograph 2nd Hand |
| Dec 31, 1832 | Joseph states that he was deprived of a benefit of an education and was instructed only in the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. | Joseph Smith, Jr. | Scribed Verbatim |
| 1834 | Commentary on public schools during JS's time. | J. Orville Taylor | Secondary |
| 1834 | J. Orville Taylor provides commentary on public schools during Joseph's time. | J. Orville Taylor | Direct |
| May 1, 1834 | Susquehanna Register reprints Isaac Hales's recollection that Joseph didn't go to school often. | Isaac Hale | Direct Reprint |
| 1839 | Mulholland records the account of the BOM translation; Joseph used instruments he called U&T. | Joseph Smith, Jr. | Scribed Summary |
| Dec 31, 1840 | Orson Pratt records that schooling was available to Joseph. | Orson Pratt | Direct Unsourced |
| Jun 15, 1842 | CH rebuts TPA, calls JS "without education or genius" with "a little low cunning." | Cleveland Herald | Reprint Journalism |
| Dec 31, 1842 | Orson Hyde writes in a German tract that Joseph did not receive an education. | Orson Hyde | 2nd Hand |
| 1844 - 1845 | Lucy Mack Smith reports that Smith family read revolutionary literature. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim Direct |
| Jun 8, 1844 | JS could not write well | Joseph Smith, Jr. | Scribed Verbatim |
| Dec 31, 1844 | Luc Mack Smith reports that Joseph didn't like books in her memoirs. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim |
| Dec 31, 1844 | Lucy Mack Smith describes Hyrum Smith's education. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim |
| 1845 | Lydia Gates Mack, mother of Lucy Mack Smith, taught school and was an accomplished woman. | Solomon Mack | Scribed Verbatim |
| 1845 | Lucy Mack Smith records how Smith family educated their children. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim |
| 1845 | LS describes how her husband taught school during the winter-time. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim Direct |
| 1845 | LMS recalls that JS Sr. taught school. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim Late |
| 1845 | LS describes how Hyrum went to an academy in Hanover. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim Direct |
| 1845 | LMS highlights JS's farm labors. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim 2nd Hand |
| 1845 | JS worked as a day laborer. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim 2nd Hand |
| 1845 | Lucy Mack says that Oliver Cowdery taught school at the district school when the Smith family arrived in Harmony. | Lucy Mack Smith | Scribed Verbatim |
| 1848 | WA says JS could barely read and could only really write his name | William I. Appleby | 2nd Hand |
| 1851 | OT writes that JS was "possessed of less than ordinary intellect." | Orsamus Turner | Direct |
| Aug 14, 1859 | Orson Pratt describes Joseph Smith's limited education. | Orson Pratt | Unsourced Late |
| Feb 11, 1861 | Abraham Lincoln records that he wrote his own farewell speech from Springfield, demonstrating his literacy. | Abraham Lincoln | Scribed Verbatim Direct |
| Dec 31, 1867 | Pomeroy Tucker asserts that Joseph was unlearned and spent more time outside. | Pomeroy Tucker | 2nd Hand Late |
| Dec 31, 1867 | Pomeroy Tucker reports that Joseph knew a lot of stories. | Pomeroy Tucker | Secondary |
| 1867 | Pomeroy Tucker highlights how LDS have used Joseph's lack of education to defend the Book of Mormon. | Pomeroy Tucker | Late Secondary |
| 1867 | According to TP, JS was illiterate c. ~1830. | Pomeroy Tucker | 2nd Hand Secondary |
| 1869 | MT's first book for comparison to the age of JS translating the BOM. | Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) | Direct |
| Dec 31, 1869 | Gazetteer and Business Directory prints reports that Joseph attended a little bit of school. | Hamilton Child | Journalism |
| Aug 31, 1878 | In a letter to James T. Cobb, William S. Sayre claims that Joseph Smith, Sr. was educated. | William S. Sayre | 2nd Hand Reprint Late |
| Oct 1, 1879 | ES on JS as being a poor at dictation and writing. | Emma Hale Smith | Scribed Verbatim Direct Late |
| Dec 29, 1880 | Joseph Smith had a limited education | Simon Smith | Direct Reprint |
| Feb 11, 1881 | SS tells MF that JS's education was "very limited." | Simon Smith | 2nd Hand Reprint |
| Dec 31, 1883 | Smith family knew Joseph did not have proper education. | William Smith | Direct Late |
| Dec 31, 1883 | William Smith reports that although Joseph did not have a common education, he had a high regard for truth. | William Smith | Direct |
| Feb 27, 1884 | CB says he went to school with JS. | Clark Braden | Scribed Verbatim Late |
| Sep 1, 1884 | Benjamin Saunders reports to William H. Kelley that that Joseph had little education. | William H. Kelley | Scribed Verbatim Reprint Late |
| 1884 | SP says that JS had a poor reputation as a student in school. | Clark Braden | Direct Late |
| Jan 1, 1887 | HS was much more educated than JS. | Mrs. S. F. Anderick | Direct |
| Jun 27, 1887 | S.F. Anderick, in a statement, reports that Hyrum Smith was able to teach school, Joseph was not. | Mrs. S. F. Anderick | Direct Reprint Late |
| Jan 1888 | Isaac Butts, in a statement, states that Joseph went to school. | Arthur B. Deming | Direct Reprint Late |
| Sep 8, 1892 | JHG notes that the original manuscript of the BOM didn't have punctuation. | John Hulbert Gilbert | Direct Late |
| 1901 | AJ describes how OC taught school in the district school in Manchester, Ontario county, N.Y.. | Andrew Jenson | Secondary |
| Dec 31, 1901 | Lyman Stowell reports that Joseph went to school. | Wilbur F. Stowell | 2nd Hand Late |
| 1902 | Asael Smith gives address to Joseph Smith Sr. to give his children a good education, if possible. | Joseph Fielding Smith | Direct |
| 1906 | JWR says SR had high-quality education. | John W. Rigdon | Direct |
| 1908 | Biography of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). | John W. Leonard | Secondary |
| 1911 | Evelyn M. Wood says Joseph might have been taught his letters in around 1810. | Evelyn M. Wood Lovejoy | 3rd Hand Late Secondary |
| 1911 | Junius F. Wells reports that Joseph went to a school on Dewey Hill. | Evelyn M. Wood Lovejoy | Secondary |
| Jul 1, 1922 | Joseph Smith went to school and was not as ignorant as some portrayed him. | H. S. Salisbury | Secondary |
| Dec 31, 1956 | JS went to school in East Palmyra with the Terry family. | Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lund | Unsourced Late |
| 1992 | Bruce A. Van Orden reports that Hyrum Smith went to school much earlier than Joseph. | Bruce A. Van Orden | Secondary |
| 1995 | Historian DHD says that Abraham Lincoln had less than one year of schooling by age fifteen. | David Herbert Donald | Secondary |
| 1995 | David Herbert Donald describes 19th-century education for Abraham Lincoln. | David Donald Herbert | Secondary |
| 1995 | AL had an urgency to become a lawyer in 1834 and self-studied to become one. | David Herbert Donald | Secondary |
| 1995 | AL was sought after to write letters for his neighbors as few could write well at that time. | David Herbert Donald | Unsourced Secondary |
| Dec 2001 | Kyle Walker, in a PhD thesis, discusses Joseph Smith Sr. working as a school teacher. | Kyle R. Walker | Secondary |
| Dec 31, 2006 | HS had access to Dartmouth educational ideas. | Richard K. Behrens | Secondary |
| Aug 14, 2010 | TMTH&M says MT(SC) was educated until the fifth grade. | The Mark Twain House & Museum | Secondary |
| Aug 14, 2010 | TMTH&M summarizes the publication of MT's first book. | The Mark Twain House & Museum | Secondary |
| Dec 2, 2013 - Feb 28, 2014 | An exhibit summarized by DCL recounts the history of Moor's Charity school. | Dartmouth College Library | Secondary |
| 2014 | The RDOCS gives biographical and academic details of John S. | Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars Editorial Committee | Secondary |
| 2015 | Charles Dudley Warner's notes from autobiography of Samuel Clemens concerning his education. | Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) | Direct Reprint |