Christian Register reports on Mormons in Kirtland and mentions a Black man who is said to have jumped 25 feet without injury.
“Fanaticism,” Christian Register 10, no. 13 (March 26, 1831): 51
The believers in the book of Mormon amount to about 400 in Geauga and Cayahogo counties in Ohio. They have all things in common, and they affirm that miracles are performed among them, and revelations made to them by the Deity. They assert, that a short time since a letter written in heaven by the hand of God, descended from the skies and fell into the hands of a young man; and that some of them have received the white stones promised in the 2d chapter of Revelations. A negro, who is a chief man among them, is said to have jumped 25 feet down a bank into the top of a tree without injury.