“[Joseph Smith, Jr.] claims and believes that there is a [seer] stone of this quality, somewhere, for everyone.”

Joseph Smith, Sr., in Fayette Lampham’s 1830 “Interview with the Father of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, forty years ago. His account of the Finding of the Sacred Plates” Historical Magazine [second series] 7 (Morrisania, NY: Henry B. Dawson, May 1870), 306.