Joseph Merrick finds Pittsfield Parchments containing verses from Bible. (7)
I was unfamiliar with the "Pittsfield Parchments."
"In 1815, a man named Joseph Merrick said that after ploughing some ground, he found what looked like a black strap. A closer examination revealed that it was pieces of thick rawhide sewed together, which contained four folded leaves of old parchment of a dark yellow color. The parchments were taken to Cambridge, where it was determined that the writing consisted of verses of Deuteronomy and Exodus in Hebrew characters."
Ethan Smith, author of A View of the Hebrews tried to locate the document in his quest to tie American Indians to the lost tribes of Israel, but he was not a able to locate the Pittsifield Parcmnents.
Details about it being uncovered and analyzed can be read here.
And several links include more information here.
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