Republican Advocate in December 1830 reports on Moroni's visit to Joseph.
"The Golden Bible," Republican Advocate (Wooster, Ohio), December 4, 1830, 2
In the Fall of 1827, a man named Joseph Smith of Manchester, Ontario county, N.Y. reported that he had three times been visited in a dream, by the spirit of the Almighty, and informed that in a certain hill in that town, was a Golden Bible, containing an ancient record of a divine nature and origin.