Footnotehttp://user.xmission.com/~research/early/court1830.htm [Abram W. Benton], “Mormonites”, Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate (Utica, New York) 2 (April 9, 1831): 120, emphasis omitted.
FootnoteFrom The Amboy Journal, Amboy, Illinois, Wednesday, April 30, 1879, page 1. MORMON HISTORY. A NEW CHAPTER, ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED, Statements of Joseph and Hiel Lewis, sons of Rev. Nathaniel Lewis, concerning what they saw and heard of the sayings and doings of...
FootnoteJoseph Smith’s earliest account states that he received the words or read them through spectacles. His 1832 account records that “the Lord had prepared spectacles for to read the Book” (Dean C. Jessee, ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith: Autobiographical and...
