About June 30, 1830
South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York
People v. Smith: Joseph Smith was tried and discharged by Justice of the Peace Joel Noble on charges of being a disorderly person for claiming that he could discover lost goods.Sources:
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 1:85-96
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, Richard L. Bushman, pp. 159–62
"Joseph Smith’s Bainbridge, N.Y., Court Trials," W. P. Walters, Westminster Theological Journal 36:2
LDS Church Archives, Joseph Smith Legal Papers series
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