Levi W. Hancock

He's gonna become the second presiding bishop in the Church.

There's Levi Hancock, who's a local carpenter and cabinet maker.

He's a distant relative of John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration of Independence.

He's gonna become one of the First Presidents of the Quorum of the Seventy.

You got Zebedee Coltrin, who taught the gospel.

Uh, he's taught by Levi Hancock's brother.

He becomes a President of the Quorum of the Seventy.

Isaac Morley, who's a prominent landowner in, in Kirtland, he's gonna consecrate his farm and stays with the Church until Utah.

It has snowed, uh, there are accounts later on that c- call this the Winter of the Big Snow.

Uh, it snowed over six feet deep, and to get that far, there are people that hire, uh, Levi Hancock talks about hiring somebody to take him four miles, and he pays him a dollar to go four mi- that's a day's salary, four miles in the snow.

And yet Joseph and Emma are doing this with a wagon and a sleigh, and to pull a wagon through the snow like that, uh, very unsafe, very difficult.

Um, Joseph's probably driving that, although he, uh, switches to the sleigh and Emma goes to the wagon as they get close to Kirtland so Joseph can prepare a place for her.

And at this meeting, three men, Joseph Smith, Lyman White, and Harvey Whitlock, have a vision of the father and the son.

And Levi Hancock, who's there, recorded that Joseph Smith was speaking to the elders when he, this is Levi's words, stepped out onto the floor and said, I now see God and Jesus Christ as his right hand.

Let them kill me.

I should not feel death as I am now.

Yeah.

Yeah.ordination of Harvey Whitlock, okay? This is, um, from a journalist named Levi Hancock, and he writes about this ordination with Joseph Smith and Harvey Whitlock.

Joseph, okay, when he's ordaining him, the laying, the laying on of hands, says he puts his hands on Harvey Whitlock and ordained him to the high priesthood.

Harvey turned as black as Lyman, was white.

Yeah, that seems entirely arbitrary to take one and throw out the other.

And then there's also an additional issue here.

I mean, you said there are other sources, but focusing on Levi Hancock and his description of this event, he is...

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