David Nye White, a non-Mormon, was the senior editor of the Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette. He visited Nauvoo in 1843 and published this account based on an interview with Joseph Smith. This account was published in the New York Spectator, September 23, 1843. According to the editor, Joseph Smith said: TheContinue Reading
First Hand Accounts I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision anymore than I am worried that there are four different writers of the gospels in the New Testament, each with his own perceptions, each telling the events to meetContinue Reading
Levi Richards’ notes from a lecture given by George J. Adams about the Book of Mormon together with Joseph Smith’s follow-up testimony to Elder Adam’s remarks. At 6 PM. heard Elder G[eorge] J. Adams upon the book of Mormon proved from the 24th, 28th & 29 of Isaiah that theContinue Reading
In March 1838, Joseph Smith moved his family and the center of the Church from Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri. Only a month later, on April 27, 1838, while engaged in establishing a new gathering place for the Latter-day Saints in Caldwell County, Missouri, he again began writing aContinue Reading
On November 27, 1832, Joseph began keeping a journal, a practice he continued intermittently to the end of his life. Although the beginning pages were in his own handwriting, much of the journal was dictated to scribes and was eventually written entirely from their own observations. Extensive gaps in theContinue Reading
This 1832 narrative contains the earliest known account of Joseph’s First Vision. It was partly written by him and partly dictated to his scribe, Frederick G. Williams. See handwritten account at JosephSmithPapers.org Joseph Smith At about the age of twelve years my mind became seriously imprest with regard to theContinue Reading
Joseph Smith sends his handkerchief with Wilford Woodruff to heal two children Wilford Woodruff When we left Brother Noble, the Prophet Joseph went, with those who accompanied him from the other side, to the banks of the river, to return home. While waiting for the ferryboat, a man of theContinue Reading
Healing of Joseph Noble Joseph Noble Our exposure during the previous winter caused a great deal of sickness. I and some of my family were attacked with bilious fever. I think I can safely say that one half of the families of the whole people had more or less sickness,Continue Reading
Artemus Millet was instrumental in the construction of the Kirtland temple in 1835, and while working on the temple, he came down with cholera. It was at this time when this miracle that he records occurred: Artemus Millet I was taken sick with cholera and we sent for Joseph SmithContinue Reading
Raising William Huntington from the Dead As related by Levi Curtis About the month of August, 1856, William D. Huntington and I went into Hobble Creek Canyon to get a tree or log suitable for making drums. After we had finished our labor and started for home, both of usContinue Reading
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