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in Documents Volume 3, several
documents relate to one of the most
important anti Mormon figures in
Mormon history, a man by the name of
Dr. Philastus Hurlbut was
excommunicated from the church for
adultery and was afterwards hired by an
anti Mormon Committee in Kirtland to
collect antagonistic statements and
affidavits aimed at proving that
Joseph Smith didn't write the Book of Mormon,
that it was something that he took from
another author, that he was a liar—all
kinds of claims and accusations against
Joseph Smith. Well the surrounding
residents who didn't want Mormons living
near them anyway, grabbed a hold of these
things that Hurlbutt was was claiming
and these affidavits that he brought
back, and so in Documents Volume 3, many
of the the documents relate to this
rising tide of anti Mormonism in
Kirtland as Joseph is trying to figure
out how to negotiate these claims these
these untruthful claims that are made by
this excommunicated and disgruntled
member of the Church.
 
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