Joseph's journal records discovering a "Nephitish alter."

Date
May 19, 1838
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Scribed Paraphrase
Reference

Joseph Smith, Journal, May 19, 1838, Joseph Smith Papers

Scribe/Publisher
George W. Robinson
People
Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wight, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
N/A
Transcription

We next kept up the river mostly in the timber for ten miles, untill we came to Col. Lyman Wight’s who lives at the foot of Tower Hill, a name appropriated by Prest smith, in consequence of the remains of an old Nephitish Alter an Tower, In the after where we camped for the sabath, In the after part of the day, Prest<​s.​> smith and Rigdon and myself, went to Wights.

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