Abel Chase reports that Joseph retrieved stone from a well.

Date
1886
Type
Affidavit
Source
Abel Chase
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Abel Chase, Statement, in Wilhelm Ritter von Wymetal, Joseph Smith, the Prophet, His Family, and His Friends (Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1886), 231

Scribe/Publisher
Tribune Printing and Publishing Co.
People
Abel Chase, Joseph Smith, Jr., Willard Chase
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

The PEEPSTONE, in which he was accustomed to look, he got of my elder brother Willard while at work for us digging a well. It was a singular looking stone and young Joe pretended he could discover hidden things in it.

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