Lucy Harris

(Biographical Information Coming Soon)
Lucy's account of seeing the plates was recounted by Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph's Mother. Mrs. Smith reported that Lucy Harris described a dream in which she was reproved by an angel for her unbelief.

"She [Mrs. Harris] related a very remarkable dream which she said she had during the night. It ran as follows. She said that a personage appeared to her, who told her, that as she had disputed the servant of the Lord, and said his word was not to be believed, and had also asked him many improper questions, she had done that which was not right in the sight of God. After which he said to her, 'Behold, here are the plates, look upon them and believe.' After giving us an account of her dream, she described the record very minutely. Yet after all this she still rejected the Gospel."

I'd always wondered why Lucy Harris would acquiesce and go along with Martin mortgaging their farm to pay for the publication of the Book of Mormon. If I told my wife I was mortgaging our property for some 20-year-old kid then she'd have my head. This dream/vision Lucy was given was likely necessary for her to let Martin play his role in the bringing forth of the Book of Mormon.


References:
Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith