Source:Orsamus Turner:History of the Pioneer Settlement:215:Lucy Harris burned or hid the Book of Mormon manuscript

Orsamus Turner (1852): "The wife of Harris...burned or secreted them"

Parent page: Book of Mormon/Lost 116 pages

Orsamus Turner (1852): "The wife of Harris...burned or secreted them"

Orsamus Turner:

The wife of Harris was a rank infidel and heretic, touching the whole thing, and decidedly opposed to her husband's participation in ti. With sacriligious hands, she seized over an hundred of the manuscript pages of the new revelation, and burned or secreted them. [1]

Notes

  1. Orsamus Turner, History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham’s Purchase and Morris’ Reserve (1852) 215.