Source:Orsamus Turner:History of the Pioneer Settlement:215:Mormon Hill

Orsamus Turner (1852): "at the place afterwards called Mormon Hill"

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Orsamus Turner (1852): "at the place afterwards called Mormon Hill"

Orsamus Turner, who considered Joseph Smith "a cheat and a fraud," had this to say about Martin Harris. Turner felt that Joseph Smith duped Martin Harris into mortgaging his farm in order to finance the printing of the Book of Mormon:

The Prophet Joseph, was directed by an angel where to find, by excavation, at the place afterwards called Mormon Hill, the gold plates. [1]

Notes

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