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Could Ethan Smith's use of this area as the arrival point in his View of the Hebrews have any influence either from the story or the shared name of Smith?
Neither modern nor Shakespearean, Smith Island's English is ...
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Sep 24, 2018 — Legend has it Smith Islanders speak Elizabethan English. That's not quite true, but it's not entirely untrue either.
William R. Hine of Windsor, New York, heard from young Joseph that: wrote:He [Joseph] saw Captain Kidd sailing on the Susquehanna River during a freshet, and that he buried two pots of gold and silver. He claimed he saw writing cut on the rocks in an unknown language telling where Kidd buried it, and he translated it through his peepstone … [and then] dug for Kidd's money, on the west bank of the Susquehanna, half a mile from the river.
(Arthur B. Deming, ed., Naked Truths About Mormonism 1 (Oakland, CA, January 1888): 2, qtd. in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 4:182-84.)
Ketchel E. Bell wrote:he knew Jo[seph] Smith when he was digging near the Susquehanna River for Capt. Kidd's Money. Jo[seph] had a peep-stone through which he claimed to see hidden or buried treasures.
(May 1885, cited in Arthur Deming, Naked Truths About Mormonism, 3, qtd. in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents 4:179.)