200 years ago today - Feb 17, 1819

Brigham Young was living in Auburn, N.Y. when the Auburn Gazette features an article on "Indian Jews" with "twenty-three arguments and observations, to prove that the American Indians are descendants of the ancient Jews," taken from James Adair's 1775 'History of the American Indians.'

[Grunder, Rick, Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source]