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==Hyrum Smith statements as one of the Eight Witnesses==

* After Liberty Jail: "I felt a determination to die, rather than deny the things which my eyes had seen, which my hands had handled, and which I had borne testimony to, wherever my lot had been cast."<ref>{{TS1|author=Hyrum Smith|article=To the Saints scattered abroad|vol=1|date=November 1839|start=20, 23}}</ref>
*[W]ee wass talking about the Book of Mormon which he is one of the witnesses he said he had but too hands and too eyes he said he had seen the plates with his eyes and handled them with his hands.<ref>Letter to John Kempton, 26 August 1838, Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, microfilm no. 840025.</ref>
*"[Mary Fielding Smith] bears testimony that her husband [Hyrum] has seen and handled the plates, &c."<ref>{{MS1|author=Joseph Fielding|article=Letter to Parley P. Pratt|vol=4|date=August 1841|start=52}}</ref>
*Another writer heard Hyrum "declare, in this city in public, that what is recorded about the plates, &c. &c. is God's solemn truth."<ref>"Mr. J. B. Newhall's Lecture," signed by "A Hearer," Salem Advertiser and Argus, 12 April 1843, some also in ''Times and Seasons'' 4 (15 June 1843): 234&ndash;235;</ref>
* "When I was but ten years of age, I heard the testimony of the Patriarch Hyrum Smith, one of the eight witnesses, to the divinity of the Book of Mormon and teh appearance of the plates from which it was translated."<ref>Salt Lake Stake Historical Record, 25 January 1888; cited in {{Book:Anderson:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses|pages=146}}</ref>

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