FootnoteComplete quote: “Walters, the better to carry on his own deception with those ignorant & deluded people who employed him, had procured an old copy of Cicero’s Orations, in the latin language, out of which he read long and loud to his credulous hearers,...
Footnotehttp://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/wayn1830.htm http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/images/human25.jpg Cicero’s Orations in Latin Copied by the papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini while on leave from the Council of...
FootnoteJames Giddings, the deputy sheriff of Boscawen, New Hampshire, issued a reward for Walter’s arrest: “Transient person,calling himself Laman Walter, [who] has for several days past been imposing himself upon the credulity of the people in this vicinity by a...