FootnoteOf this event, Dale Broadhurst has written: ‘On February 12th, 1832 Elders Samuel H. Smith and Orson Hyde approached the outskirts of what Hyde, in his missionary journal, calls “Salem Village”. Although Mormon missionaries had no doubt passed through this...
FootnoteMatilda Spalding Davison’s Letter to the Boston Daily Advertiser. ORIGIN OF THE “BOOK OF MORMON”, OR “GOLDEN BIBLE”. April 1, 1839. Other witness statements: • • • • • • Artemus Cunningham (1833): “Before showing me his [Spalding’s] manuscripts, he went into a...
FootnoteIn August 1833, Aaron Wright, one of Spalding’s neighbors, recalled his memories of Spalding’s Manuscript Found, then added: “Spalding had many other manuscripts, which I expect to see when Smith translates his other plate” (Howe 1834, p. 283-84). John Miller,...
