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Each row is one woman named as a plural wife of Joseph Smith. The hollow dot marks the date the sealing is claimed to have happened; the solid dot marks the earliest known document asserting it. The bar between them is the gap. Judge for yourself where the claims cluster, and where the records do.
The claimed date and the document are usually the same thing. For most rows, the sealing date exists only inside the late affidavit that asserts it: there is no independent contemporary record of the ceremony. Each row's detail panel names the document its date comes from.
The vertical line at June 1844 is Joseph Smith's death. A claim first recorded to the right of that line entered the record when he could no longer answer it.
The shaded band, 1867-1870, is the affidavit drive: Apostle Joseph F. Smith collected sworn statements from surviving claimants a quarter century after the fact, while the Utah church was defending polygamy against the RLDS position that Joseph never taught it. Most rows land there.
The blue diamond marks the first known statement by the woman herself, where one exists. Rows with no diamond are women who left no first-person claim at all: the marriage is asserted for them by relatives, later husbands' circles, or posthumous lists.
Roster and dates follow Todd Compton's standard 33-wife list plus 4 names claimed on other lists, cross-linked to this site's main timeline. Every date and attestation was checked against Brian Hales' josephsmithspolygamy.org, Compton, the Joseph Smith Papers, and the period documents themselves. This page presents the claims and their paper trail; it does not adjudicate them.