Fanny Brewer claims that Joseph had "unlawful intercourse" with "a young orphan girl."
"Testimony of Fanny Brewer, of Boston," September 13, 1842, in John C. Bennett, The History of the Saints: Or an Exposé of Joe Smith and Mormonism (Boston: Leland & Whiting, 1842), 85
In the spring of 1837. . . .There was much excitement against the Prophet, on another account, likewise,—AN UNLAWFUL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND A YOUNG ORPHAN GIRL RESIDING IN HIS FAMILY, AND UNDER HIS PROTECTION!!! Mr. Martin Harris told me that the Prophet was most notorious for lying and LICENTIOUSNESS!!