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Joseph Smith reportedly guided local seer Samuel T. Lawrence to the hill, where the two used a seer stone to view the golden plates; Lawrence reportedly was the first to see a pair of spectacles in addition to the plates. [220] Oliver Cowdrey, one of the Three Witnesses, was a distant relative of Joseph Smith who also engaged in divination. [221]
An 1841 engraving of Cumorah (looking south), where Joseph Smith said he was given golden plates by an angel named Moroni, on the west side, near the peak.. Cumorah (/ k ə ˈ m ɔːr ə /; [2] also known as Mormon Hill, [3] [4] [5] Gold Bible Hill, [6] [7] and Inspiration Point) [3] is a drumlin in Palmyra, New York, United States, [8] where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates ...
Smith took this group, along with his father Joseph Smith Sr. and his brothers Hyrum and Samuel to a location near Smith's parent's home in Palmyra where the angel had transported the plates, [3] [note 9] where Smith said he showed them the golden plates. [102]
The Sacred Grove is also suggested as a possible site where Smith showed the golden plates to Eight Witnesses in June 1829. [2] Smith's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, said the event took place at a location near the Smith log home [3] "where the [Smith] family were in the habit of offering up their secret devotions to God" (Smith 1853, p. 140).
There are varying accounts as to how Smith reportedly found the precise location of the golden plates. In 1838, Smith stated that this location was shown to him in a vision while he conversed with Moroni. [89] This conforms to an account by Smith's friend Joseph Knight Sr., though he refers to Smith's guide only as "the personage."
The angel Moroni directs Joseph Smith to the plates of the Book of Mormon. Smith said that on the night of September 21, 1823, Moroni appeared to him and told him about the golden plates that were buried in a stone box a few miles from Smith's home.
According to his later accounts, Smith was visited by an angel named Moroni, while praying one night in 1823. Smith said that this angel revealed the location of a buried book made of golden plates that would be translated into the Book of Mormon. [7] The completed work was published in Palmyra on March 26, 1830, by printer E. B. Grandin.
Joseph Smith said that on September 22, 1827, he had recovered a set of buried golden plates in a prominent hill near his parents' farm in Manchester, New York. Martin Harris, a respectable but superstitious [ 3 ] farmer from nearby Palmyra , became an early believer and gave Smith $50 (equivalent to $1,346 in 2023) to finance the translation ...