This article claims to have pinned down the date of Joseph Smith's supposed First Vision. It hinges on the account of an axe stuck in a stump. Read it and ask the same question I did: Is there any other reason for chopping wood in 1820 in March in upper New York...
Joseph Smith's own accounts of the first vision must be viewed with some reservations. No mention of his “First Vision” “”which supposedly took place in 1820″”was ever made in print, until twenty years later when Orson Pratt, a longtime friend...
