Prophetic text
Letter to Noah C. Saxton, 4 January 1833
Joseph Smith
Predicts unprecedented national bloodshed and disasters, gathering to American Zion and Jerusalem, and return of lost tribes; explicitly says some then living will see the described things. Its Indigenous ancestry claims are Smith’s statements, not findings about Indigenous history.
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A warning to the United States →
The Rochester editor introduces an extract of Smith’s letter · commentary →
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Edition and location
Joseph Smith Papers transcript of archival retained copy or minute book
Letterbook 1, pp. 17–18; web pages 4–5