He wrote a short account from them called an abridgment.

What he took from each man's record he called after the writer's name, as the Book of Alma, Book of Helaman, etc., which we might call names of chapters in Mormon's book.

Mormon gave all his writings to his son Moroni, who wrote a little more on the plates.

Moroni also made a short account of another people who had lived in America before the Nephites.

They were called the Jaredites.