Joshua Stafford and later Willard Chase (11 Dec.) sign affidavits of personal acquaintance with Joseph Smith when he organized neighbors to search for buried treasure early in 1820. These affidavits would be published in Eber D. Howe's Mormonism Unvailed in 1834.
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
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