Palmyra
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Sep 22, 2026
Scott WoodwardHOST
Like, we know that he was present from the beginning of the church, right? In fact, he knew Joseph Smith before there even was a church.
Scott WoodwardHOST
They were neighbors in Palmyra, New York, before all the action happened with Joseph.
Scott WoodwardHOST
And the Rockwell family, I mean, they became some of Joseph Smith's earliest supporters, right? Some of the Rockwells, we think even Porter himself was actually baptized on the day the church was organized, right?
Casey GriffithsHOST
Yeah.
Casey GriffithsHOST
And we're going to do this a lot, by the
Scott WoodwardHOST
way, we're going to say some sources say, and other sources say, because yeah, he's, he's just a tricky one to pin down.
Scott WoodwardHOST
But we do know the, the sketch, the outline, right? Like from Palmyra, we know that the Rockwell family is going to be, they're going to show up in the narrative again as some of the earliest saints to move to Jackson County, Missouri in 1831, which again, they believed with many of the saints at the time that that was the location for the new Jerusalem that was prophesied in the Book of Mormon.
Scott WoodwardHOST
and porter and his family are going to run the ferry on the big blue river there even unknowingly taking some of the mobbers across the river just before they destroyed the church printing office in july of 1833 when all that mayhem broke out in jackson county missouri when the saints get evicted from there
Gerrit W. GongSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Early in this dispensation, the prophet Joseph received a remarkable prophecy that Heavenly Father desires everyone, everywhere, to discover God's love and experience His power to grow and change.
Gerrit W. GongSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That prophecy was received here at the Smith Family Log Home in Palmyra, New York.
Gerrit W. GongSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This second story bedroom occupies the same 18 by 30 by 10 foot physical space where Moroni is a glorious messenger from God came to the young Joseph on the evening of September 21st, 1823.
Gerrit W. GongSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The prophet Joseph recounted, Moroni said God had a work for me to do and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues.
Garrett DirkmaatHOST
Friday and Saturday I spent mostly in reading the Book of Mormon, which was handed to me by Elder Solomon.
Garrett DirkmaatHOST
It is a duodecimo volume of 590 pages printed at Palmyra in the state of New York.
Garrett DirkmaatHOST
A certain Joseph Smith securing the copyright as author and proprietor.
Garrett DirkmaatHOST
Now, of course, you can read this right from the title page.
Scott WoodwardHOST
In fact, it goes way, it goes back before the church.
Scott WoodwardHOST
Like I mentioned, he was one of Joseph Smith's neighbors in, uh, in Palmyra, New York before the first vision.
Scott WoodwardHOST
Uh, the Rockwell family moved there in 1817, uh, they're neighbors with the Smith family, and Porter's, like, what did I say? Seven or eight years younger.
Scott WoodwardHOST
I think it's nine years younger, actually-
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
He had to mortgage over 150 acres and then give those acres, sell those acres to publish the Book of Mormon.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
And now his wife has left him and he is asked to give the rest of the monies that he earned from his farm up in Palmyra, New York, to buy lands here.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
in Jackson County, Missouri.
Lynn Hilton WilsonHOST
And this wonderful saint does that.
Bill ReelHOST
A lot, right? They were in the barrel of beans in the shed.
Bill ReelHOST
They were in the barrel of beans in the carriage going from Palmyra to, I don't know, New Harmony or wherever he was heading to.
Bill ReelHOST
They were underneath the fireplace hearth.
Bill ReelHOST
When he thought people figured out they were under the fireplace hearth and they came in to find them, lucky for you, I moved them an hour ago.
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Bill ReelHOST
And the first one is Kimora itself.
Bill ReelHOST
Again, this is falsifiable.
Bill ReelHOST
Joseph clearly, over multiple occasions, even has an experience where he and David Whitmer and Oliver Cowdery are in Palmyra.
Bill ReelHOST
They're talking to Moroni, who's walking down the road, and he says he's heading to Camorra.
BaylorHOST
Yeah.
BaylorHOST
And I also wanna say that Joseph Smith did find the plates under the direction of Angel Moroni in a hill in Palmyra, New York.
BaylorHOST
But...
BaylorHOST
And we refer to that hill as the Hill Cumorah, but that hill is not the Hill Cumorah of the Book of Mormon.
speaker_4NARRATOR
mob then organized itself and drove the delegates from the town.
speaker_4NARRATOR
That same month, the people of Palmyra, New York, held a meeting at which they adopted resolutions to the effect that owners of houses or tenements in that town occupied by blacks of the character complained of, be requested to use all their rightful means to clear their premises of such occupants at the earliest possible period, and that it be recommended that such proprietors refuse to rent the same thereafter to any person of color whatever.
speaker_4NARRATOR
In New York, Negroes were excluded from the places of amusement and public conveyances, and segregated in places of worship.
speaker_4NARRATOR
In the draft riots, which occurred there in 1863, one of the aims of the mobs was to assassinate Negroes and to destroy their property.