Letter to the editor from TC mentioning JS's use of the stone.
- Type
- News (traditional)
- Source
- Truman Coe Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectReprint
- Reference
Truman Coe, "Mormonism," letter to the editor, Ohio Observer, (August 1836), in Cincinnati Journal and Western Luminary (25 August 1836)
- Scribe/Publisher
- Cincinnati Journal and Western Luminary
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
Smith had previously been noted among his acquaintances as a kind of juggler, and had been employed in digging after money. He was believed by the ignorant to possess the power of second sight, by looking through a certain stone in his possession.
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