Ashbel Kitchell records conversation with Oliver Cowdery, who claimed to have seen an angel.
- Type
- Personal Journal / Diary
- Source
- Ashbel Kitchell CriticNon-LDS
- Hearsay
- Scribed Verbatim2nd Hand
- Reference
Ashbel Kitchell, Journal, 1830–1831, MSS SC 922, Harold B. Lee Library, BYU
- Scribe/Publisher
- Ashbel Kitchell, Elisha D. Blakeman
- Audience
- N/A
- Transcription
A MORMON INTERVIEW
Copied from Brother Ashbel Kitchell’s
Pocket Journel.—(By E.D.B.) [Elisha D. Blakeman]
Some time in the year 1829 the new religion, (if so it may be called,) of the Mormons began to make a stir in a town not far from North Union. It created a good deal of excitement among the people. They stated they had received a New Revelation, had seen an angel, & had been instructed into many things in relation to the history of America, that was not known before.
Late in the fall a number of them came to visit the Believers. One by the name of Oliver Lowdree [Cowdery], who stated that he had been one who had been an assistant in the translation of the golden Bible, and had also seen the Angel, and had been commissioned by him to go out & bear testimony, that God would destroy this generation.
- BHR Staff Commentary
Transcription taken and modified from Lawrence R. Flake, "A Shaker View of a Mormon Mission," BYU Studies 20, no, 1 (1979): 1-6.
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