1814, 200 years ago this year

Lorenzo Dow (October 16, 1777- February 2, 1834) was an eccentric American preacher, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. His compiled journal was published in 1814, containing an account of his own heavenly theophany while a young teen boy:

-When past the age of thirteen years- I went out of doors, and was taken up by a whirlwind and carried above the skies : at length I discovered, across a gulph as it were through a mist of darkness, a glorious place, in which was a throne of ivory overlaid with gold, and God sitting upon it, and Jesus Christ at his right hand, and angels, and glorified spirits, celebrating praise "Oh ! the joyful music !"

[Source: Journal of Lorenzo Dow as quoted in 16 Precedents to Joseph Smith's First Vision, by Thinker of Thoughts, Nov 19, 2013]