William Appleby writes that Joseph found the Urim and Thummim with the plates of the BOM.

Date
1844
Type
Book
Source
William I. Appleby
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Unsourced
Reference

W. I. Appleby, A Dissertation of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream (Recklesstown, Burlington Co., New Jersey, 1844), 23

Scribe/Publisher
William I. Appleby
People
Joseph Smith, Jr., William I. Appleby
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

[T]his record was deposited in a hill called by the Nephites Cumorah, not far from this place ; that the Record was wrote in the reformed Egyptian, and that they could not be translated by the wisdom of this generation, but if he was faithful he should be the honored instrument in bringing it forth, and translating the same by the "Urim and Thummim" that was deposited with the Records

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