Newel knight biography

Newel Knight (September 13, 1800 – January 11, 1847) was.
Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by David Whitmer, last week of May 1830, in Seneca Co., New York.
As the operator of a carding machine business and a gristmill, he was a leading man in his community.

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Newel Knight

Q: Newel Knight is mentioned in D&C 52:32; 54; 56:6-7; 72; 124:32. Newel was one of the stalwart Knight family who stood by the Prophet Joseph through many years of persecution. Did Newel make it to Utah?

A: Newel Knight was born in 1800 in Vermont. He married Sarah (Sally) Coburn in 1825 in New York. Sally and Newel set up housekeeping a few miles from his father, Joseph Knight.

In 1828 Newel Knight wrote that Joseph Smith visited them often and that they “were very deeply impressed with the truthfulness of his statements concerning the Plates of the Book of Mormon which had been shown him by an Angel of the Lord’ (quotations from Newel Knight are from his unpublished journal, Church Archives). Newel was baptized in May 1830 at the Whitmer farm.

In 1831 Newel and other Saints moved to Ohio, then to Missouri, where Newel served as a counselor to Bishop Isaac Morley. In 1834, Newel’s wife, Sarah, and her baby died in Galatin, Missouri. Newel wrote “Truly she died a martyr to the gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. She was o

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Newel Knight

American Mormon leader

Newel Knight (September 13, 1800 – January 11, 1847)^[1] was a close friend of Joseph Smith and one of the first branch presidents in the Latter-day Saint movement.

Born at Marlboro, Vermont, Knight was the son of Joseph Knight, Sr. and Polly Peck.^[1] When Newel was about eight years old his family moved to Colesville, New York.^{[citation needed]} He married Sally Colburn on the June 7, 1825. The couple had three children.^[1]

Knight was baptized into the Church of Christ (the original name of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), in May 1830 by David Whitmer. Prior to this, Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, had cast an evil spirit out of Knight. This event is considered by some to be the first miracle performed in the history of the Latter-day Saint movement.^[1] Shortly after this, Knight had a vision of heaven.

With the baptism of Knight's parents, siblings, and aunts and uncles in July 1830, the Colesville Branch of the church was organized with K

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Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley, "Introduction," in The Rise of the Latter-day Saints, ed. Michael Hubbard MacKay and William G. Hartley (Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2019), xi–xxiv.

The journals of Newel Knight are one of a handful of essential manuscript sources that every historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints relies upon to understand its early history. The Joseph Smith Papers Project has recently transcribed and made available many official histories or assigned histories from the early Church in print and on the Web.[1] They have also included other important documents, like the early history of Parley P. Pratt and Lucy Mack Smith. Left out of this massive project is a transcription of Newel Knight’s journal. He was one of the very earliest Latter-day Saint converts and maintained a lifelong friendship and close association with Joseph Smith. He was one of a few early members of the Church to write about the earliest events in Latter-day Saint history with direct experi