By what names was the event known as the "First Vision" originally called

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Joseph Smith (1832): " [I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision "

Text in blue is in Joseph Smith's own handwriting, the remainder in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams.

[I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision ^[1]

Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication"

Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):

he testifyed unto me that Jesus Christ is the son of God; <and I saw many angels in this vision> I was about 14. years old when I received this first communication; When I was about 17 years old I saw another vision of angels, in the night season after I had retired to bed^[2]

Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old"

Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):

up to the time I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14, years old and also the the visitations that I received afterward, concerning the book of Mormon^[3]

Joseph Smith (1838): "I had seen a vision"

I had seen a vision, I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it^[4]

Joseph Smith (1842): "I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision"

I retired to a secret place in a grove and began to call upon the Lord, while fervently engaged in supplication my mind was taken away from the objects with which I was surrounded, and I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision and saw two glorious personages^[5]

Orson Pratt (1840): "Some time after having received this glorious manifestation"

Orson Pratt:

Some time after having received this glorious manifestation, being young, he was again entangled in the vanities of the world, of which he afterwards sincerely and truly repented. ^[6]

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