Footnote“Late in 1827 or early in ‘[18]28, was the first I heard Harris speak of Jo’s finding the plates…. The plates found by Jo, as represented at the time, purported to be a history of the lost tribes of Israel–and not establishing a new religion, but confirming...
FootnoteDocumentation for the statement that Smith used the seer stone but not the “interpreters” after the lost pages incident: William E. McLellan to Joseph Smith III, from Independence, Mo, Sept. 8, 1872: “The Plates and gift of translation were returned to him...
