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Joseph Smith was born in Sharon, Windsor Co., Vermont to Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack.
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Visited five times by the angel Moroni who revealed to Joseph the existence of ancient gold plates (from which The Book of Mormon was translated) and instructed him on his rolein restoring the gospel.
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He married Emma Hale in South Bainbridge, New York.
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Joseph Smith recieved the gold plates from the angel Moroni at the Hill Cumorah in upstate New York. Also recieved the Urim and Thummim, which was used in translating the Book of Mormon.
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First printed copies of the Book of Mormon available in Palmyra, New York (5,000 coppies printed by E.B. Grandin).
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Saints began fleeing from mobs in Jackson County, Missouri, across the Missouri River and into Clay County, Missouri.
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First Stake organized in Kirtland, Ohio, with Joseph Smith as Stake President.
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Name of the church - given by revalation.
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Joseph Smith at age 38 in Carthage, Hancock Co., Illinois