Hiram Page’s Book of Mormon Revelations

Record summary

Hiram Page, one of the Book of Mormon witnesses, reportedly received revelations through a black stone in 1830, prompting a dispute over who possessed authority to receive revelations for the developing church. Joseph Smith’s later account says the revelations were rejected and the stone removed from circulation. The episode offers a precise comparison between personal scrying, charismatic authority, competing channels of revelation, and institutional boundary-making. Its reconstruction depends on later church histories, recollections, and passages in early Latter-day Saint documentary collections.