Black Pete Kerr described as a "chief man."

Date
Jul 12, 1831
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Painesville (Ohio) Gazette
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Reprint
Unsourced
Reference

Connecticut Courant, "FANATICISM. The Golden Bible or The Book of Mormon", July 12, 1831

Scribe/Publisher
Connecticut Courant
People
"Black Pete", Painesville (Ohio) Gazette
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Among them is a man of color, a chief man, who is sometimes seized with strong vagaries and odd conceits. The other day he is said to have jumped twenty-five feet down a wash bank into a tree top without injury. He sometimes fancies he can fly.

BHR Staff Commentary

Pete Kerr is not identified by name, but it is likely who is referred to as "a man of color" in the article.

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