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{{:Question: Are there any other witnesses to the Book of Mormon plates besides the Three and Eight witnesses?}}

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|link=http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/another-account-of-mary-whitmers-viewing-of-the-golden-plates/
|authorlink=http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/author/royals/
|title=Another Account of Mary Whitmer’s Viewing of the Golden Plates
|author=Royal Skousen
|date=2014
|vol=10
|start=35
|end=44
|summary=The most interesting aspect of this story is that Mary Whitmer’s difficulty with the household situation was more than just being tired from all the extra work. She was irritated by Joseph and Oliver’s indifference to all the work she was doing, with their not helping out and instead skipping rocks for relaxation, so “she was about to order them out of her home.” Thus Moroni’s intervention was perhaps more purposeful than we might have previously thought. Undoubtedly, many others exerted much effort on behalf of providing help to Joseph and Oliver (such as Emma Smith had just done in Harmony, Pennsylvania, for the previous three months). Here, however, Moroni needed to deal with a more difficult situation, one that could have forced Joseph to find another place – and a secure one – to do the translating. Moroni (and the Lord) weren’t in the habit of just showing the plates to people to encourage them to act as a support team for the work of the translation.
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{{:Question: Did one of the Book of Mormon witnesses actually only handle the plates while they were covered in a "tow frock"?}}
{{:Source:William Smith:William Smith on Mormonism:1883:he escaped to the house and brought the plates with him, wrapped up in a tow frock}}
{{:Source:William Smith:The Old Soldier's Testimony:1884:When the plates were brought in they were wrapped up in a tow frock. My father then put them into a pillow case}}
{{:Source:William Smith:Wm. B. Smith's last Statement:1893:I handled them and hefted them while wrapped in a tow frock and judged them to have weighed about sixty pounds}}

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