Scribe, later dissenter
Warren Parrish
2 topics · 3 dated events · 3 sources
Their part in each topic
The First Vision
Scribe, 1835 journal
Parrish recorded both November 1835 journal entries — the long 9 November account given to a visitor calling himself Joshua the Jewish minister, and the one-line 14 November summary given to Erastus Holmes. That the same scribe wrote both, five days apart, is the hinge of the apologetic argument that they describe one event. Parrish later left the church and denounced Smith.
The Book of Abraham and the Joseph Smith Papyri
Scribe, later dissenter
Hired as Smith's scribe on 29 October 1835, Parrish inscribed Book of Abraham Manuscript–B and, with Phelps, the fuller Manuscript–C. After leaving the church he wrote in 1838 that he had 'set by his side and penned down the Egyptian hieroglyphicks as he claimed to receive it by direct inspiration from heaven' — a hostile witness whose testimony critics read as evidence that characters were being worked from directly.
In the timeline
3 events across 2 topics, chronological. Only events this person was actually part of — present at, responsible for, or the subject of — not every event where the name comes up.
The Robert Matthews entry: two personages, and many angelshinge
A visitor calling himself 'Joshua the Jewish minister' came to Smith's house in Kirtland. Warren Parrish recorded Smith's account: a fruitless first attempt to pray, a tongue that would not move, footsteps behind him, then a pillar of fire, one personage, and 'another personage soon appeard like unto the first.' The second says 'thy sins are forgiven thee' and testifies that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. An interlineation adds 'and I saw many angels in this vision.'
The Erastus Holmes entry: 'the first visitation of Angels'
Five days later, and to the same scribe, Smith summarized the same span of his life for a Methodist convert named Erastus Holmes: an account of his experience 'say from 6, years old up to the time I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14, years old.' Holmes stayed several days, dined with Smith, viewed the Egyptian mummies, and asked for a revelation about his baptism.
Three manuscripts of Abraham 1–2 are written outhinge
Williams and Parrish inscribed Manuscripts A and B, apparently simultaneously and at least partly from dictation; Phelps and Parrish produced the fuller Manuscript–C in a bound volume with prefatory material. Each carries Egyptian characters copied into a ruled left margin beside paragraph-length passages of English.
Sources in their own name
Source records in the database whose author line names this person. Each links to the topic that uses it.
Joseph Smith Jr., scribe Warren Parrish
Two retellings five days apart: two personages plus 'many angels' on 9 November, and 'the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14, years old' on 14 November.
Book of Abraham Manuscripts A, B and C, circa July–circa November 1835
Frederick G. Williams, Warren Parrish, William W. Phelps (scribes)
The earliest English text of Abraham 1:1–2:18, with Egyptian characters copied into the left margins beside paragraph-length English passages.
History, 1834–1836 (Kirtland journal-derived history)
Joseph Smith, Warren Parrish, Frederick G. Williams
Day-by-day Kirtland entries: labor on the Egyptian alphabet on 1 October 1835 when 'the system of astronomy was unfolded,' and the 17 November exhibition of 'the Alphabet of the ancient Egyptian Records' to the visitor Erastus Holmes.
Appears alongside
People who share the most dated events with Warren Parrish.
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