Joseph Smith heard about a girl in a neighboring town by the name of Sally Chase that reportedly had a stone that allowed her to see hidden objects. Joseph visited the Chase family and asked to look into her stone. The story goes that when he put her stone in a hat and gazed into it he was able to see a white stone hidden under a tree nearby and knew that this white stone was his own seer stone. When he dug it up, this white stone became Joseph's first seer stone. This stone would have been used for Joseph's earliest treasure hunting days. Eyewitness accounts state that it looks like a baby's foot, wider on one side than the other. It is in the churches possession.

Learn More:

• Wikipedia - Seer Stone
• Wikipedia - Scrying
• Fuller Consideration - Seer Stones