1819 COCHRANE DELUSION. Trial of Radical Baptist Sectarian Accused of Polygamist Teaching & Practice. Abolition *Incident in the Life of

*Incident in the Life of a Rascal

and just afterward wrote a rather glowing and Presbyterian-Nationalistic dedication to Oliver Cromwell in his Mystery of the Two Witnesses

The Christmas Star by Maria Upham Drake

an inscription on the blank ffep from 1808

[Preached West Point

1819 COCHRANE DELUSION. Trial of Radical Baptist Sectarian Accused of Polygamist Teaching & Practice. Abolition *Incident in the Life ofA very scarce little work indeed, with no other copies on the market. Fascinating piece of history, and often noted as the first significant group advocating polygamy in America, predating Joseph Smith and the Mormon Latter Day Saints. Some Latter Day Saints argue that it was not Joseph Smith, but Cochranites who introduced early Mormons to polygamy and that Smith himself never taught the doctrine. What was often termed "The Cochrane Delusion" arose