March 23, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith and William Clayton requested donations of supplies for Latter-day Saint lumbermen laboring in Wisconsin. Robert D. Foster's wife denied to Joseph Smith, Alexander Neibaur, and William Clayton that Joseph had ever tried to seduce her or commit any immoral act or preach the plurality of wives. She later recanted after being threatened by her husband.
Sources:
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 6:271
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters, Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
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