Evidence of sexual relations in Joseph Smith's plural marriage with Emily Dow Partridge:

Witness

Quotation

Reference

Self

Q. Had you roomed with him prior to… the night after you were married the last time?

A. No sir, not roomed with him.

Q. Well had you slept with him

A. Yes sir.

Q. [Had you] slept with him… before the fourth of March 1843 [their marriage date]?

A. No sir…

Q. Did you ever live with Joseph Smith after you were married to him after that first night that you roomed together?

A. No sir.  Emma knew that we were married to him, but she never allowed us to live with him…

Q.  Do you make the declaration now that you ever roomed with him at any time?

A. Yes sir.

Q. Do you make the declaration that you ever slept with him in the same bed?

A. Yes sir.

Q. How many nights?

A. One.

Q. Only one night.

A. Yes sir.

Q. Then you only slept with him in the same bed one night?

A. No sir.

Q. Did you ever have carnal intercourse with Joseph Smith?

A. Yes sir.

Q. How many nights?

A. I could not tell you.

Q. Do you make the declaration that you ever slept with him but one night?

A. Yes sir.

Q. And that was the only time and place that you ever were in bed with him?

A. No sir.

Q. Were you in bed with him at any time before… you were married?

A. No sir, not before I was married to him.  I never was.

Temple Lot transcript, part 3, pages 371, 384, questions 480-84, 747, 751-62.

“Later the Prophet again Came and at my house occupied the Same Room & Bed with my Sister that the month previous he had occupied with the Daughter of the Late Bishop Partridge as his wife.”[1]

Dean R. Zimmerman, ed., I Knew the Prophets: An Analysis of the Letter of Benjamin F. Johnson to George F. Gibbs, Bountiful, UT: Horizon, 1976, 44.