Lucy Mack Smith reports that Smith family read revolutionary literature.
Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845; transc. Martha Jane Knowlton Coray and Howard Coray, bk. 3, pg. 9, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed August 11, 2021
But as soon as his Father and brother Jesse [Smith] heard that we were attending methodist meeting they were much displeased and his father came to the door one day and threw Tom Pain’s age of reason into the house and angrily bade him read that untill he believed it.