According to the Book of Mormon, [written by Joseph Smith, Jr.] the people of Nephi, and the remnant of the house of Israel, were the descendants of Joseph and Ishmael. Thus we discover the account of Lehi, the prophet, to be of the genealogy of Joseph, a Caananite, and Asenath, an Egyptian woman, [blacks]: The sons of Lehi, by Sariah, were four — Laman, Lemuel, Sam and Nephi ; and they took the daughters of Ishmael for wives, [dark red people].

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America, was first settled by the Israelites — Indians who came out from Egypt. [The View of the Hebrews, by Ethan Smith.] America was discovered by Columbus in 1492, and was peopled by Colonies in A. D., 1630, from Europe. The first settlement in New England was made at Plymouth, in the midst of a fertile country. — The Egyptians were an Ethiopian people. [Herodotus.]