The average Mormon is well acquainted with the story of Joseph Smith finding the buried golden plates of Mormon on Hill Cumorah, but what they’re typically not familiar with is the story, behind Smith’s story.
John Kyd was supposedly a sailor who was lost at sea, and the father of the notorious Captain William Kidd, who became a legend in the annals of pirate folklore. Whether he was truly guilty of all the crimes he was charged with is questionable, in the latest research done by historians of the twentieth century.
