Brigham recalls that David Patten and Thomas Marsh confronted Joseph, who slapped David Patten and "kicked him out of the yard."
Wilford Woodruff, Journal, June 25, 1857, The Wilford Woodruff Papers website, accessed May 23, 1857
25 President B Young ^& H C Kimball^ G. A. Smith A Lyman & C. C. Rich came into the office at 2 oclok & sat & conversed upon various things. He said that David Patten & T. B. Marsh came to Kirtland in the fall of 1837. He said as soon as they came I got Marsh to go to Josephs But Patten would go to W Parrish He got his mind prejudiced & when He went to see Joseph David insulted Joseph & Joseph slaped him in the face & kicked him out of the yard this done David good