Sidney Rigdon

2 bearers of surname "Rigdon"

Records (7)

• mentioned Mourning Courier and New-York Enquirer suggests that Sidney Rigdon wrote the BOM and Joseph fallaciously claimed to translate it.
• mentioned Per Martin Harris, Joseph confessed that he drank too much before translating the BOM and didn't know the contents of the BOM beforehand.
• mentioned Brookville Enquirer reports that Joseph was given plates by an angel from heaven to translate.
• mentioned John Storrs said that Joseph translated the Book of Mormon by using a "peculiar stone."
• mentioned Reuben Miller records Oliver Cowdery stating how Joseph translated the BOM and Rigdon did not make it up.
• mentioned John Murdock reports on Sidney Rigdon saying how Joseph was illiterate, but when he puts the spectacles on, he can produce "a literal translation of the writing upon the gold plates."
• mentioned R.W. Alderman reports Martin Harris as having claimed that Joseph used Peep-stone in a hat to translate plates.