Ebenezer Robinson affirms in affidavit that Hyrum Smith told him about the plural marriage revelation.
- Type
- Affidavit
- Source
- Ebenezer Robinson LDSDisaffected
- Hearsay
- DirectLate
- Reference
Ebenezer Robinson, Affidavit, October 23, 1885, rep. Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1887), 543–544
- Scribe/Publisher
- Lewis Publishing Company
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
"To Whom It May Concern:
"This is to certify that in the latter part of November, or in December, 1843, Hyrum Smith (brother of Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints) came to my house in Nauvoo, Illinois, and taught myself and wife the doctrine of spiritual wives or polygamy.
"He said he heard the voice of the Lord give the revelation on spiritual wifery (or polygamy) to his brother Joseph, and that while he had heretofore opposed the doctrine, he was wrong, and his brother Joseph was right all the time.
"He told me to make a selection of some young woman and he would seal her to me, and take her to my home, and if she should have an heir to give out word that she had a husband who had gone on a mission to a foreign country. He seemed displeased when I declined to do so.
"E. ROBINSON.
"Davis City, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1885.
"Subscribed and sworn to before me, a Notary Public in and for Decatur County, Iowa, this 24th day of October. A. D.
1885
[L.S.] "Z. H. GURLEY, Notary Public."
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