Dartmouth College and Moor's School

Joseph Smith's brother Hyrum attended Moor's Indian Charity School. Some people think he attended for all or part of four or five years. However, the available enrollment documents show that he attended only during the first quarter of the school year 1814-1815, as shown in the records below. He did not attend for subsequent quarters that year.

A paper discussing this is available at 

This page includes images of some of the references cited in that paper. 

• Enrollment rosters from Moor's school.

• Pages from Chapman’s 1867 Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College.

• Pages from the John Smith memoir by his widow Susan.

Table of Attendance.

The following table is an AI-assisted transcription of the names on Moor’s school roster, school year 1814-1815, showing which students attended which quarter(s). The table should be compared with the original documents at mobom.org for accuracy.

This table shows Hyrum’s limited attendance, supporting the review’s critique of the article’s claim that Hyrum was deeply involved with the “Dartmouth community.”

Only 14/57 students (25%) enrolled in the first quarter completed all four quarters in 1814-15. Only 2 of Hyrum’s 9 fellow “Charity scholars” completed all four quarters.

30/57 (53%) did not return for the second quarter.

Students in bold appear on the roster for 1813-1814. Students with an asterisk (*) are listed on the examination sheet for August 22, 1816. Hyrum is not among them.

Moor's enrollment roster for year 1813-14. These are also available at the BH Roberts Foundation.