August 25, 1829

Fayette, New York
Martin Harris mortgaged his farm in order to assure payment to Egbert B. Grandin of $3,000 to print 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon.
Sources: 
Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820–1844, John W. Welch, p. 98
Joseph Smith History A1:34 
Revelation, circa Summer 1829 [D&C 19] 
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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