Joseph's journal entry describing encounter with Kinderhook Plates.
Joseph Smith Journal, 7 May 1843, as found in "Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 2, 10 March 1843–14 July 1843," 195
May 7[th] Sunday 1843. forenoon visited by several gentlemen concerning the plates which were dug out of a mound near quncy [Quincy] sent by Wm Smith to the office for Hebrew Bible & Lexicon—