'I well remember the trials my brother had, before he obtained the records. Joseph Smith's younger sister, Katharine Smith Salisbury added the additional information that Joseph was to meet the angel at Cumorah at 2:00 AM to receive the plates. 'Shortly after this, Joseph's wife passed through the room with her bonnet and riding dress and in a few minutes they left together, taking Mr.

About twelve o'clock, Joseph came to me and asked me if I had a chest with a lock and key.' 'On the night of the twenty-first, I sat up very late, as my business pressed upon my hands, and I did not retire until past twelve. 'On the twenty second day of September, One thousand Eight hundred and twenty seven, having went as usual at the end of another year to the place where they were deposited, the same heavenly messenger delivered them up to me with this charge that I should be responsible for them.'

J Smith gets the plates, hides them in a birch log.īoth Joseph and Lucy Smith specify this date. I was there several Days.' Saturday, September 22, 1827, Manchester, 'I went to Rochester on Business and returned By Palmyra to be there about the 22nt of September. Joseph Knight records that he arranged his business so as to be in Palmyra about the 22nd of September: Stowell to see how we were managing matters with Mr. Sunday, SeptemThursday, September 20, 1827, Manchester There are nevertheless some tight constraints on many of the time sequences, which restrict the possible dates to within a few days. The dates given below are mostly approximations (identified by a ~ symbol), and are sometimes no more than a best guess. I have tried to specify the reasons behind each of my assumptions in the extensive notes which follow the timeline. I have made an effort to exclude from the notes those things which do not pertain to a better understanding of the timing of the events discussed. Other days of the week are included only when there is some purpose for including them. Every Sunday is included, even those with nothing significant to report. In the table which follows, each Sunday in the sequence will be identified in red.

Approximate Book of Mormon Translation Timeline

Bible and book of mormon timeline chart