By what names was the event known as the "First Vision" originally called

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Joseph Smith (1832): " [I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision "

Text in blue is in Joseph Smith's own handwriting, the remainder in the handwriting of Frederick G. Williams.

[I] could find none that would believe the hevnly vision ^[1]

Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication"

Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):

he testifyed unto me that Jesus Christ is the son of God; <and I saw many angels in this vision> I was about 14. years old when I received this first communication; When I was about 17 years old I saw another vision of angels, in the night season after I had retired to bed^[2]

Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old"

Joseph Smith's journal (scribe Warren Parrish):

up to the time I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14, years old and also the the visitations that I received afterward, concerning the book of Mormon^[3]

Joseph Smith (1838): "I had seen a vision"

I had seen a vision, I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it^[4]

Joseph Smith (1842): "I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision"

I retired to a secret place in a grove and began to call upon the Lord, while fervently engaged in supplication my mind was taken away from the objects with which I was surrounded, and I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision and saw two glorious personages^[5]

Orson Pratt (1840): "Some time after having received this glorious manifestation"

Orson Pratt:

Some time after having received this glorious manifestation, being young, he was again entangled in the vanities of the world, of which he afterwards sincerely and truly repented. ^[6]

Source:Orson Pratt:A Cry out of the Wilderness:These heavenly revelations

Joseph Smith (1843): "The vision then vanished...I went home and told the people that I had a revelation"

The vision then vanished, and when I come to my self, I was sprawling on my back; and it was sometime before my strength returned. When I went home and told the people that I had a revelation^[7]

Notes

1. ↑ "History, circa Summer 1832," The Joseph Smith Papers.
2. ↑ "Journal, 1835–1836," The Joseph Smith Papers.
3. ↑ "Journal, 1835–1836," The Joseph Smith Papers.
4. ↑ "History, circa June 1839–circa 1841 [Draft 2,"] The Joseph Smith Papers.
5. ↑ "“Church History,” 1 March 1842," The Joseph Smith Papers.
6. ↑ "Appendix: Orson Pratt, A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions, 1840," The Joseph Smith Papers.
7. ↑ "Interview, 21 August 1843, extract," Interview, JS by David Nye White, Nauvoo, IL, 21 Aug. 1843; in David Nye White, “The Prairies, Nauvoo, Joe Smith, the Temple, the Mormons, &c.” Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, 15 Sept. 1843, p. [3]; photocopy at CHL. The Joseph Smith Papers.