JSJr was told by Joseph Lewis and Joshua McKune (local Methodist preacher) that
The Amboy Journal, June 11, 1879, p.1.his occupation, habits, and moral character were at variance with the discipline, that his name would be a disgrace to the [Methodist] church, that there should have been recantation, confession and at least promised reformation-. That he could that day publicly ask that his name be stricken from the class book, or stand an investigation. He chose the former, and did that very day make the request that his name be taken off the class book.
Granted, this was reported 51 years later. But does the LDS Church have any denials by JSJr or those close to him in June 1828 that he did not do this?
Seems quite congruent with then a year later writing his own scriptural text, and then a year after that starting his own church.