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==Question: Did Joseph Smith become a baptized member of the Baptist Church in 1822?==
 
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===Fayette Lapham claimed to have learned this from Joseph Smith, Sr. 50 years after the First Vision had occurred===
 
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Fayette Lapham claimed to have interviewed Joseph Smith Sr. in 1829-30, and published a report forty years later.  In it, he reported:
 
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About this time [1822, perhaps as late as 1824] he [Joseph, Jr.] became concerned as to his future state of existence, and was baptized, becoming thus a member of the Baptist Church.<ref>{{CitationSource:BoM Witnesses:Other:Fayette Lapham:1870}}</ref>
 
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===There are no records to support the claim that Joseph joined the Baptist Church===
 
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The Lapham source is secondhand at best&mdash;putting forward information that reportedly came from the Prophet's father. There are no records beyond this late, second-hand recollection to support this claim.
 
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