1819 COCHRANE DELUSION. Trial of Radical Baptist Sectarian Accused of Polygamist Teaching & Practice. Abolition An Exhortation to the Inhabitants

An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the South Parish of Glasgow

an inscription on the blank ffep from 1808

[Preached West Point

*Incident in the Life of a Rascal

1819 COCHRANE DELUSION. Trial of Radical Baptist Sectarian Accused of Polygamist Teaching & Practice. Abolition An Exhortation to the InhabitantsA 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