family, signed a joint statement declaring their testimony of the golden plates that Joseph Smith said he translated into the Book of Mormon. Smith was baptized by Oliver Cowdery, who had become the first baptized Latter Day Saint on (Joseph Smith had been baptized immediately after Cowdery).Īt the end of June 1829, Samuel, along with his brother Hyrum, his father, and several men of the Peter Whitmer Sr. On May 25, 1829, Smith became the third person baptized as a Latter Day Saint.
When Smith's father missed a mortgage payment on the family farm on the outskirts of Manchester Township, near Palmyra, a local Quaker named Lemuel Durfee purchased the land and allowed the Smiths to continue to live there in exchange for Samuel's labor at Durfee's store.īook of Mormon witness and church establishment ( October 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īorn in Tunbridge, Vermont, to Joseph Smith Sr., and Lucy Mack Smith, Samuel moved with his family to western New York by the 1820s. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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