Joseph Knight Family Connections to the Doctrine and Covenants
April 2025
Doctrine and Covenants 29
Recorded September 1830, Fayette, New York
Come Follow Me, March 31- April 6: “Jesus Christ will gather His people”
Read “The Gathering Begins.” As Newel Knight and Freeborn DeMille returned home from the Second Conference of the Church and the introduction of Section 29, Newel determined he would help gather right in his own community. He and Hyrum Smith knocked on doors and held meetings in the Colesville area. Newel wrote in his journal that their goal was “the salvation of the human family.”
Doctrine and Covenants 30-36
Recorded September- December 1830, Fayette, New York
Come Follow Me, April 7-13: “Lift up your voice . . . to declare my Gospel”
Come Follow Me, March 17-23: “Seek for things of a better world”
Read the background of Doctrine and Covenants Section 23. Very soon after the organization of the Church, a group of five men, including Joseph Knight, Sr., met with Joseph Smith in the Smith home in Manchester, New York, and asked for guidance from the Lord and read the handwritten copy of the five revelations that became Section 23
Read in the New Era July 1986 about the trial of Joseph Smith. He was arrested at the Knight home in Colesville as a meeting was beginning to confirm the newly baptized Colesville members. The Knight family were a significant help during the trial.
Doctrine and Covenants 27-28
Recorded August and September 1830
Come Follow Me, March 24-30: “All things must be done in order”
Read where the Knights were in November 1831 when Section 1, was recorded in November of 1831 in Kirtland, Ohio. The main body of the church was in Kirtland, but Jackson County, Missouri had already been dedicated as Zion. Together, the Knight family and all of the Colesville Branch were people who hearkened and moved their families west to the American frontier in July of 1831 when they were asked to do so.
Joseph Smith-History 1:1-26
Recorded 1823
Come Follow Me, Jan. 13-19: “I Saw a Pillar of Light”
Read “How the Knights Knew the Smith Family.” Joseph Knight, Sr. was supportive of the Smith Family in Palmyra, New York, as early as 1825, even though he lived 140 miles away in Colesville, New York. Read how this relationship began.
Read the Family Home Evening story, “Joseph Knight’s Wagon and the Plates of Gold,” with photos of the Knight Farm, and a children’s craft to make with paper wagon and horse, or coloring page.
