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Source:Martin Harris:Joel Tiffany 1859:I knew that Joseph had not credit enough to buy so much lead
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Martin Harris: "I knew from the heft that they were lead or gold, and I knew that Joseph had not credit enough to buy so much lead
Joel Tiffany interviewed Martin Harris in 1859. Martin said the following during the time that Joseph was translating the plates, but before he became a witness:
While at Mr. Smith's I hefted the plates, and I knew from the heft that they were lead or gold, and I knew that Joseph had not credit enough to buy so much lead.[1]
Notes
- ↑ "Martin Harris Interview with Joel Tiffany, 1859," Early Mormon Documents 2:309.