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The witness of Samuel Smith
Question: Did Samuel Smith, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, every deny having seen the plates?
Samuel Smith "knew his brother Joseph had the plates...and he had handled them and seen the engravings thereon"
Daniel Tyler reported hearing Samuel Smith:
He knew his brother Joseph had the plates, for the prophet had shown them to him, and he had handled them and seen the engravings thereon.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Richard Lloyd Anderson, Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1981), 148. ISBN 0877478465.