Early Mormon Documents, Volume 3
This volume includes accounts of:The first Mormon church services held in the Young Men’s Association third-story hall in Palmyra, in a neighbor’s barn, and at the Smith family residence.The first baptisms conducted near the Smith residence, at a mill pond in Hathaway Brook.The translation of the Book of Mormon, said by some to have occurred, in part, in a cave dug into Miner’s Hill, north of the Hill Cumorah.The return of the gold plates to a cave.The Smith family’s Palmyra residency: upstairs from their cake and beer shop on Main Street, to a cabin on Stafford Road, to a cabin in neighboring Manchester, and finally to their small frame house in Manchester.The Smiths’ daily work—Joseph Sr. as shop owner, pork packer, and barrel maker; Joseph Jr. as a hired farm hand, living away from the family at age fourteen.