Maybe it would pay to ask an English dialectologist whether this
construction was found in spoken English around 1830. ...
*1764*. Anthony Purver, /A new and literal translation of all the books of the Old and New Testament; with notes critical and explanatory./ 2 Vols. London: W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1764. Often called "The Quaker Bible," because Purver was a Quaker.Could Smith have had a copy of this? Did this use the "if...and" construction? Some leads for possible research.
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