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Monday, May, 1. — I rode out with Lucien Woodworth, and paid him £20 for the Nauvoo House, which I borrowed of
William Allen. 

I insert fac-similes of the six brass plates found near Kinderhook, in Pike county, Illinois, on April 23, by Mr. Robert
Wiley and others, while excavating a large mound. They found a skeleton about six feet from the surface of the earth,
which must have stood nine feet high. The plates were found on the breast of the skeleton and were covered on both
sides with ancient characters.

I have translated a portion of them, and find they contain the history of the person with whom they were found.
He was a descendant of Ham, through the loins of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and that he received his kingdom from the
Ruler of heaven and earth.
  ~ History of the Church by Joseph Smith, volume 5, page 372.   The LDS Church says...  History of the Church by Joseph Smith,

A letter uncovered in February 2002 purportedly written by John D. Lee and blaming Mormon leader Brigham Young  for the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 is displayed in National Park Service headquarters in Page, Ariz., Jan. 23, 2002. Lee was the only person held accountable for the slaughter in southern Utah of 120 Arkansas men, women and children. In the letter, etched in a sheet of soft lead and dated 1872, Lee writes that he and other Mormon authorities carried out the massacre on orders from Young.
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AP Photo/National Park Service, ho