Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph says angel appeared in a dream to Joseph Smith.
"Beware of Impostors," Painesville Telegraph, December 14, 1830
This new Gospel they say was found in Ontario co. N.Y. and was discovered by an Angel of light, appearing in a dream to a man by the name of Smith, who, as directed, went to a certain place and dug from the earth a stone box, containing plates of gold, on which this gospel was engraved in characters unknown. The said Smith though a man so illiterate that he cannot write, was, by divine inspiration, enabled to give the true interpretation, and the man who wrote from the mouth of smith, is one of the four mentioned above [Oliver Cowdery].