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Source:Orsamus Turner:History of the Pioneer Settlement:216:Plan to reimburse Martin Harris for the printing of the Book of Mormon
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Orsamus Turner (1852): "secures to Martin Harris one half of the proceeds of the sale of the Gold Bible until he was fully reimbursed"
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Orsamus Turner (1852): "secures to Martin Harris one half of the proceeds of the sale of the Gold Bible until he was fully reimbursed"
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:
The only business contract - veritable instrument in writing, that was ever executed by spiritual agents, has been preserved, and should be among the archives of the new state of Utah. It is signed by the Prophet Joseph himself, and witnessed by Oliver Cowdery, and secures to Martin Harris one half of the proceeds of the sale of the Gold Bible until he was fully reimbursed in the sum of $2,500, the cost of printing. [1]
Notes
- ↑ Orsamus Turner, History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham’s Purchase and Morris’ Reserve (1852) 216.