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Books by Brian C. Hales dealing with "Mormon
fundamentalist" polygamy:
|
Wife’s Name |
Witness |
Quotation |
Reference |
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Sarah Ann Whitney |
Sealing ceremony dictated by Joseph Smith
|
“I give you S. A. Whitney my Daughter to Joseph Smith to be his
wife to observe all the rights between you both that belong to
that condition I do
it in my own name and in the name of my wife your mother and in
the name of my Holy Progenitors by the right of birth which is
of Priest Hood vested in me by revelation and commandment and
promise of the living God obtained by the Holy Melchizedek,
[Jethro], and other of the Holy Fathers commanding in the name
of the Lord all those powers to concentrate in you and through
to your posterity forever…” |
Manuscript, CHL[1] |
Wyl quoting Sarah Pratt
|
“…he [Joseph Smith] seduced her daughter `[Sarah Ann Whitney].” |
Mormon Portraits, Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1886, 90. |
[1] Cited in Michael Marquardt, The Joseph Smith Revelations: Text and Commentary, Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999, 315-16; see also Revelations in Addition to Those Found in the LDS Edition of the D&C on New Mormon Studies: A Comprehensive Resource Library. CD-ROM. Salt Lake City: Smith Research Associates, 1998.
