An Honest Friend (1830)
There are numerous little-noted gentile friends of the early Saints, and one of those was John Reid who, although not a lawyer, acted successfully as defense counsel for the Prophet in his first trials in Colesville and South Bainbridge, New York, in 1830. Although never a convert he journeyed to Nauvoo in May 1844 and publicly described his defense of the prophet and the spiritual experience that prompted him to take the case. Thirty-five years after Esquire Reid defended Joseph, his son Amos Reid (Reed) became acting governor of the Utah Territory where he often referred with pride to the part his father had taken on behalf of the Prophet Joseph on those early occasions.
Cannon, Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet, p. 90
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