when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

and shortly afterward began translating its words by the "gift of God." 3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The ...

With the coming Monday marking the 219th anniversary of Joseph Smith ... after publication of the Book of Mormon, the seer stone church historians say Smith used to translate — at least ...

Soon after publishing The Book of Mormon in 1830, Joseph Smith left his home in Palmyra, New York with several dozen followers. Over the next fifteen years, Smith's Latter-day Saints would ...