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Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Vermont, on the border between the villages of South Royalton and Sharon, to Lucy Mack Smith and her husband Joseph Smith Sr., a merchant and farmer. [6] He was one of eleven children. At the age of seven, Smith had a bone infection and, after receiving surgery, used crutches for three years. [7]
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]
[16] Emma Smith, Joseph Smith's wife and scribe for part of the Book of Mormon, made a clear distinction between the two in an 1870 letter, "The first that my husband translated, was translated by the use of the Urim, and Thummim [i.e. spectacles or interpreters], and that was the part that Martin Harris lost, after that he used a small stone ...
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 The Sacred Grove is a drumlin in Palmyra, New York, United States, [3] where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates which he translated into English and published as the Book of ...
A 21st-century artistic representation of Joseph Smith translating the golden plates by examining a seer stone in his hat. In 1823, Smith said that an angel told him of the existence of golden plates along with "two stones in silver bows" fastened to a breastplate that the angel said God had prepared for translating the plates. [25]
Shortly after receiving this certification, Joseph Smith, Joseph Coe, and Simeon Andrews purchased the four mummies and at least five papyrus documents for $2,400, [58] which is about $70,000 in 2019 US dollars. [59] Joseph Smith wanted to purchase only the papyri, but Chandler would not sell the papyri without the mummies. [60]
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In addition to the members in the Palmyra-Manchester area and in Fayette, Smith soon found followers in Colesville, New York, a town near Harmony on the Susquehanna River. Smith's friend Joseph Knight Sr. lived there, and the Universalist Knight had been receptive to Smith's ideas. [131]