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Joseph Smith's Education
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Joseph Smith (1832): "we were deprived of the bennifit of an education suffice it to say I was mearly instructtid in reading and writing and the ground <rules> of Arithmatic"
Text in blue is in Joseph Smith's own handwriting, the remainder in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams.
my Father Joseph Smith Seignior moved to Palmyra Ontario County5 in the State of New York and being in indigent circumstances were obliged to labour hard for the support of a large Family having nine chilldren6 and as it required their exertions of all that were able to render any assistance for the support of the Family therefore we were deprived of the bennifit of an education suffice it to say I was mearly instructtid in reading and writing and the ground <rules> of Arithmatic which const[it]uted my whole literary acquirements. [1]
Source:Orson Pratt:A Cry out of the Wilderness:Joseph Smith's education
Notes
- ↑ "History, circa Summer 1832," The Joseph Smith Papers.
Pages in category "Joseph Smith/Education"
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- Source:Joseph Smith:1832 History:Education
- Source:Orson Hyde:A Cry out of the Wilderness:Joseph Smith's education
- Source:Orson Pratt:A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions:Joseph Smith's education
- Source:Protestant Sentinel:4 June 1834:Joseph Smith, an illiterate young man, unable to read his own name...was reported to have found several golden plates, together with a pair of spectacles