Fredonia Censor reports early LDS leaders teaching Lehi landed in South America.

Date
Mar 7, 1832
Type
Periodical
Source
Fredonia Censor
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Journalism
Reference

"Mormonism," Fredonia Censor (New York) (7 March 1832)

Scribe/Publisher
Fredonia Censor
People
Fredonia Censor
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

The Revelation commenced about 600 years before Christ, with a prophet of the same of Lehi, of the tribe of Joseph, and a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah, who had also warned the inhabitants of Jerusalem of their idolatry, & becoming unsafe it the city, was ordered by God to leave Jerusalem and journey toward the Red Sea. He with another family who accompanied him, built themselves a ship and landed on the coast of South America, where they increased very fast, and the Lord raised up a great many prophets among them. They built cities: encouraged the arts and sciences.—

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