AND OF THE LATE DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT AMERICAN RECORDS. By O. PRATT, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL. THIRD AMERICAN EDITION. NEW-YORK: JOSEPH W. HARRISON, PRINTER, No. 465 PEARL-STREET. 1842. This edition was based off scans of the above-noted edition, available at Archive.org. The original uses some slightly odd English orthography--for example, unusual comma placement and an instance of using "was" where "were" appears to be correct. In such cases, the original has been maintained. Obvious printer's er

Mr. Joseph Smith, jun. who made the following important discovery, was born in the town of Sharon, Windsor county, Vermont, on the 23d December, a. d. 1805. When ten years old, his parents, with their family, moved to Palmyra, New-York; in the vicinity of which he resided for about eleven years, the latter part in the town of Manchester. Cultivating the earth for a livelihood was his occupation, in which he employed the most of his time. His advantages for acquiring literary knowledge, were exce