Connecticut Courant reproduces an article where "Black Pete" is said to have jumped 25 feet without injury and believes he can fly.
- Type
- News (traditional)
- Source
- Painesville (Ohio) Gazette Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectReprintJournalism
- Reference
"FANATACISM. The Golden Bible, or The Book of Mormon," Painesville (Ohio) Gazette, in Hartford Connecticut Courant, July 12, 1831, 1
- Scribe/Publisher
- Connecticut Courant
- 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.
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