Frederic G. Mather describes angel Moroni as appearing to Joseph.

Date
Aug 1880
Type
Periodical
Source
Frederic G. Mather
Non-LDS
Hearsay
2nd Hand
Late
Reference

Frederic G. Mather, "The Early Days of Mormonism," Lippincott's Magazine 2, no. 6 (August 1880): 199.

Scribe/Publisher
Lippincott's Magazine
People
Frederic G. Mather
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

It [a hill four miles south of Palmyra] is known to the present generation as "Gold Bible Hill:" to Joe Smith it was known as "the Hill Cumorah;' where the angel Moroni announced to him the presence of the "golden plates" giving an account of the fate which attended the early inhabitants of America.

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