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WARNING: "There was a  unfinished manuscript entitled Manuscript Story – Conneaut Creek, and an unpublished historical romance about the lost civilization of the mound builders of North America called Manuscript, Found.

 

 In 1833, Philastus Hurlbut, who had been excommunicated from the Church, tried to collect derogatory information about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. As part of his efforts, Hurlbut spoke with several people from Ohio who were familiar with the Spaulding Manuscript. These people signed affidavits claiming that the Book of Mormon was based on Spaulding's story. In spite of these claims, neither Hurlbut nor other critics of the Church published the Spaulding Manuscript at that time even though it was in their possession. Eventually, the manuscript was lost.

 

 

 

In 1884, a man named L. L. Rice found the manuscript among some papers he had purchased, and he turned it over to Oberlin College in Ohio. Rice and James H. Fairchild, president of Oberlin College examined the manuscript and both certified that it could not have been the source of the Book of Mormon. The Church published the story in 1886.

 

Below is the Manuscript:

https://archive.org/details/manuscriptfoundm00spau

 

IF ANY ONE READS THIS THEY CAN SEE IT WAS NOT USED TO

CREATE THE BOOK OF MORMON.