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Orsamus Turner (1852): "the Prophet Joseph, curtained from the world and them, with his spectacles, read from the gold plates"

Parent page: Book of Mormon/Translation

Orsamus Turner (1852): "the Prophet Joseph, curtained from the world and them, with his spectacles, read from the gold plates"

Orsamus Turner, who considered Joseph Smith "a cheat and a fraud," had this to say about Martin Harris. Turner felt that Joseph Smith duped Martin Harris into mortgaging his farm in order to finance the printing of the Book of Mormon:

Harris assumed, that himself and Cowdery were the chosen amanuenses, and that the Prophet Joseph, curtained from the world and them, with his spectacles, read from the gold plates what they committed to paper. [1]

Notes

  1. Orsamus Turner, History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham’s Purchase and Morris’ Reserve (1852) 215.