Peter Bauder reprints his interview with Joseph; reports Joseph's search for "secret treasure."
Joseph Smith, Interview with Peter Bauder, ca. October 1830, in Peter Bauder, The Kingdom and Gospel of Jesus Christ: Contrasted with That of Anti-Christ (Canajoharie, New York: A.H. Calhoun, 1834), 36
I improved near four and twenty hours in close application with [Joseph] Smith and his followers: he could give me no christian experience, but told me that an angel told him he must go to a certain place in the town of Manchester, Ontario County, where was a secret treasure concealed, which he must reveal to the human family.