

Soon afterwards, according to Smith, the plates disappeared, being taken away by the angel Moroni. It was accompanied by " The Testimony of the Three Witnesses," a sworn statement of Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and Martin Harris that an angel of God had shown them the plates of which the book was a translation, and by " The Testimony of the Eight Witnesses," four of them Whitmers and three of them Smiths (Joseph's father and his brothers Hyrum and Samuel). ' MORMONS,was printed early in 1830 in the printing office of the Wayne Sentinel at Palmyra. McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
