William Smith denies that Joseph and Joseph Smith Sr. got drunk.

Date
1875
Type
Manuscript
Source
William Smith
Disaffected
Hearsay
Holograph
Late
Reference

William Smith, "Notes on Chambers' life of Joseph Smith," (1875), 28, MS 2807, Church History Library

Scribe/Publisher
William Smith
People
Joseph Smith, Sr., Joseph Smith, Jr., William Smith
Audience
N/A
Transcription

After noticing these facts we leave the reader of this article to Judge wheather their was much time for indalance or for endulgence in immorral or intemporate habbits. Here I wish to remark that I never knew my Father Joseph Smith to be intoxicated or the worse for liquor nor was my Brother Joseph Smith in the habbit of drinking spiritous liquors. Neither did my fathers family spend their time or any portion of their time in idle habbits.

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