Apparently, for the reason that year, Joseph Johnson, Jr., the fourteen year old daughter of an unsuccessful farmer in up-state, Palmyra, New York, alone decided to hope to his deity in order to be generated the church that he must join. According to the tale informed by the boy, Johnson, he went, in his fifteenth year, to a wooded place near his father's farm and supposedly prayed. This is, presumably, performed in the spring of 1820, and Joseph Johnson, Jr. came far from the woods to originally tell particular persons, first his mom, dad, and brother, he had received a vision where an angel came to him and directed him to become listed on none of the existing Religious churches. In Lucy Mack Smith's resource of her boy, Joseph Jones, Jr., she wrote that "Joseph had shared with her that an angel, named Nephi, did actually him in his first vision." This is actually the initial of eight types of what Joseph Johnson, Jr. referred to, from 1820 until 1843, as his "first vision." There was actually an eighth version of the "perspective story" that was culled from all seven of the very most different designs of Joseph Jones, Jr., following his lynching and demise, by his successor, Brigham Young, in 1848, that is the version used by the LDS Church as their current official "missionary variation"
In the quick years following 1820, almost no is famous from famous documents in regards to the activities of the family of Joseph Jones, Sr., except for testimonies from neighbors in Palmyra, New York that, as a collaborative staff, Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. made their major money by "money rooting" through the use of a "seer rock" that Joseph Johnson, Jr. found while digging a water well. The Smiths represented themselves to their neighbors as possessing the occult means of finding buried value through "folk secret and sorcery" by the use of the white oval-shaped "seer stone." According to sworn affidavits from dependable men of the Palmyra neighborhood, between the years 1820 and 1830, and later, in addition to from the journals and diaries of good men and women who knew and associated with the Johnson family, the recorded facts reveal that Joseph Smith, Jr. took to wearing a Jupiter talisman around his throat around the entire year 1819, which he extended carrying until his dangerous lynching in 1844. The neighbors and buddies who wrote about Joseph Jones, Jr. mentioned that Joseph wore the talisman for mystical energy while using the "seer stone" to locate buried treasure. Based on the present records, the small Joseph Johnson and his dad weren't paid with obtaining any hidden prize, but according to the legal files of Manchester County, New York, Joseph Johnson, Jr. was accused of offender scam in 1822 by one of his true neighbors, who had paid him money to find buried treasure on his land. In line with the judge report, available on the Internet. Smith was accused, attempted, convicted of criminal fraud, and fined for doing the crime.
Then, instantly in 1823, came the history, reportedly proffered by just Joseph Johnson, Jr., that yet another angel, named Moroni, appeared to him at his family farm in his room while he was sleeping. Again, allegedly, small Jones informed his mother, father, and brother, concerning the angel, and Lucy Mack Johnson later wrote that the angel Nephi had again did actually her son. Allegedly, Joseph Jones, Jr. had number association together with his third uncle, Oliver Cowdery, till about 1828, although Cowdery lived and labored as a college teacher in yet another community less that 45 miles away from Palmyra. However, this is simply not believable based on the sudden and close relationship that the 2 young men later assumed, and the fact Joseph Johnson, Jr. didn't expose to the general public the family connection that Cowdery and he had shared. Based on the then, eighteen year old Johnson, the 2nd angel told him about wonderful plates hidden in a mountain not not even close to the family farm, and the period would pass before he could be permitted to possess the fantastic plates, from which will come a genuine 588 site guide, "The Book of Mormon," about the Hebrew (Jewish) origin of the Indigenous National Indians, an authentic idea that a Protestant minister, Ethan Jones (no connection to Joseph Johnson, Jr.) had separately drawn five years earlier, in 1825, and, about which E. Johnson had written a guide that has been offered to Joseph Jones, Jr., titled, "A See of the Hebrews." Around 1925, Mormon scholar and common authority B. H. Roberts formally investigated the staggering similarity of Ethan Smith's guide with the 1830 version of the "Book of Mormon," and concluded, for the Mormon Church" that Joseph Johnson, Jr. had possibly plagiarized substantially from E. Smith's book, "A View of the Hebrews."
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