Knight provided significant material support to Smith's translation and publication of the Book of Mormon.

They later sold their homes and properties and migrated as a group to Thompson, Ohio, where they settled on the farm of Leman Copley, a former Shaker who had become a Latter Day Saint.

Shortly after this Copley left the church, and forced the Colesville Saints to leave his farm so they then migrated to Jackson County, Missouri.

The personal descriptions and notarized statements that express their sufferings and losses become an index to the difficulties that whole mass of exiled people experienced.

[1][10] The Knights left Nauvoo with the majority of Latter Day Saints in 1846, and journeyed west with the Mormon pioneers.

Joseph Smith, recognizing these sacrifices, extolled their loyalty both publicly and in his personal writings, as Smith acknowledged the Knights as his “friends.” —Larry C. Porter[9]A tourist attraction in Nineveh, New York, the former ancestral home of Joseph Knight Sr.,[12][13] is listed as the number one thing to do by Tripadvisor in the city.