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Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Lydia G. Knight genealogical records and correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231567105]
Identifier: MSS 17
Scope and Contents Handwritten genealogical records and 32 miscellaneous items, mostly letters. Also included are photocopies, typescripts, and three microfilm reels of the originals. The correspondence is between Lydia and her family members in the New Albion area of New York state. They relate family matters and include Lydia's testimony of polygamy. Also included are several pages of a journal giving an account of an unnamed person on a mission in 1836 for the Mormon Church to work on the temple in...
Dates: 1833-1883

Newel Knight autobiography

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8414
Scope and Contents Contains photocopies of Newel Knight's original autobiography. The autobiography was prepared by Knight's wife, Lydia, in 1871, twenty-four years after Knight's death. The manuscript covers material from 1800 to 1846, but it mostly focuses on events between 1830 and 1846 when members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were living in the East Coast and the Midwest. The autobiography contains information about the early Church, traveling west in 1846, and Knight's own family as...
Dates: 1871

Fred W. Schwendiman statement

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231046332]
Identifier: MSS 1305
Scope and Contents

Typewritten statement. Schwindiman writes concerning an observation made by Preston Nibley in the Mormon Church Archives relating aid given by Newell Knight to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery while they were translating the Book of Mormon.

Dates: 1958