Martin Harris’ father (Nathan) has money, his occupation, Martin’s youth in the Quaker church, he manages his father’s business, marries cousin Lucy Harris, war of 1812, becomes “gentleman farmer”, investigates many churches, finally describes himself as an “unchurched Christian”, hires Joseph Smith Sr. and Hyrum, meets Joseph, gives him money for his journey to Harmony, PA to translate, Martin takes characters from plates to New York, Martin’s and Lucy’s marriage strained over Joseph Smith and the gold plates, Martin takes 116 translated pages to Palmyra, breaks covenant with the Lord (to show them only to a confined group of people), pages go missing, Lucy Harris takes Joseph Smith to court, Martin is no longer asked to be scribe for Joseph to translate, Martin privileged with heavenly witness of the Book of Mormon (along with Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer), Martin finances the publishing of the Book of Mormon, eventually makes it to Salt Lake, comments while looking over the valley, “Who would guess the Book of Mormon could have done all of this?”
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