Some dispute over some of the ‘names’, but not suprising. One of the big ‘discussions’ of smith’s era was whether or not the Indians were the lost tribes of Israel. A “View to the Hebrews” was very popular at the time the bom was written and parallels the bom on MANY points. Hill Cumorah is in NY - so it wouldn’t be too suprising that smith modeled most of the story on a NE geography - covered with enough ambiguity to make it difficult to see the plagerisms.
So do you have anything on the Hickory Grove phase of J. Smith’s life? NE Penn? Circa 1820-25?