As a further complication, Mary Whitmer, mother to one of the Three Witnesses and four of the Eight Witnesses, said she had a vision of the golden plates, shown to her by an angel whom she always called " Brother Nephi ", who may or may not have been the same angel to which Smith referred.

In 1830 Hiram Page, one of the Eight Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, claimed to have had a series of revelations through a black seer stone.

He was one of the Eight Witnesses examining and testifying of the reality of the Golden Plates, the original source of the Book of Mormon.

Joseph Sr. was also one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, which Mormons believe was translated by Joseph Jr. from the Golden Plates.

The Three are part of a total twelve Book of Mormon witnesses, ( along with Joseph Smith himself and the Eight Witnesses ) who stated that they " saw and handled " the plates.

The Three Witnesses were Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, and David Whitmer, whose joint testimony, in conjunction with a separate statement by Eight Witnesses, has been printed with nearly every edition of the Book of Mormon since its first publication in 1830.

* Eight Witnesses

The Eight Witnesses were one of the two groups of witnesses who signed a statement ( reprinted in the Book of Mormon ) stating that they had seen the golden plates which Joseph Smith, Jr. said was his source material for the book.

The testimony of the Eight Witnesses was first published at the end of the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon and has been printed in nearly every edition since, although most subsequent editions moved the statement to the front of the book and included minor grammatical corrections.

Unlike the Three Witnesses, the Eight testified that they both saw and handled the plates.

Another difference is the Eight testified that they were shown the plates by Joseph Smith, Jr. rather than by an angel as had the Three Witnesses.

The call of the Eight probably also illustrates the significant Mormon doctrine of continuous revelation because in Doctrine and Covenants 5: 11-14 ( revealed to Joseph Smith in March 1829 ) the Three Witnesses are told that they will be given power to see the golden plates, " and to none else will I grant this power, to receive this same testimony among this generation.

Yet despite the estrangement of the Whitmer family, there is little evidence that any of the Eight Witnesses denied his testimony to the authenticity of Book of Mormon or the golden plates — although one third-hand source, the former Mormon leader Stephen Burnett, said in 1838 that Martin Harris had told him that " the eight witnesses never saw plates & hesitated to sign that instrument for that reason, but were persuaded to do it.

In addition to the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses, Mary Whitmer, who took care of the house where much of the translation took place, said that the Angel Moroni showed her the plates as well.

When published in 1830, the Book of Mormon contained a statement about the lost 116 pages, as well as the Testimony of Three Witnesses and the Testimony of Eight Witnesses, who claimed to have seen and handled the Golden Plates.

He is primarily remembered as one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates.

Like many early church leaders including the Three and Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon and, initially all church elders, the members of this Travelling High Council were known as " apostles.

* Eight Witnesses

Eight hundred and sixty-five Rebels surrendered within their works and a thousand more were captured or surrendered themselves that night and the next day.

Eight field guns were captured in position.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

Eight men were tried together in U.S. District Court in Anniston, Ala., on charges of interfering with interstate transportation and conspiracy growing out of a white mob's attack on a Greyhound bus carrying the first of the Freedom Riders.

Eight others were founded in the region during his lifetime, numbering 3, 000 monks.

* 1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.

Eight minutes before departing the lunar surface, capsule communicator ( CAPCOM ) James Irwin notified Young and Duke from mission control that they were go for liftoff.

Eight more VHS compilations were released between 1996 and 1999 in the United States, before the final volume, Butt-O-Ween, was issued in October 1999.

Eight poems by Oxford were published in The Paradise of Dainty Devises ( 1576 ).

The airports were codenamed Bluie West One through to Bluie West Eight on the west of the island and Bluie East One to Bluie East Four on the eastern side.

Eight of the eighteen total were female.

The Byrds ' March 1966 single " Eight Miles High " and its B-side " Why " were also influential in originating the musical subgenre.

Eight other conspirators or suspects were tried and convicted, and four were hanged shortly thereafter.

Eight Bremen class light cruisers were constructed between 1902 and 1907, developed from the earlier Gazelle class.

Eight unmanned flights were made, two of which carried live monkeys.

Eight games were released for the NUON:

Eight of the victims were federal law enforcement agents ; 4 from the United States Secret Service, 2 from the United States Customs Service, 1 from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and 1 from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In 1966, The Byrds moved rapidly away from folk rock with their single " Eight Miles High ", which made use of free jazz and Indian ragas, and the lyrics of which were widely taken to refer to drug use.

Eight finishers were taken away on stretchers.

First, the Eight Banners were under the direct control of the emperor and hereditary Manchu and Mongol princes, leaving the ministry only with authority over the Green Standard Army.

These were known as the Territorial Eight Banner Army ().

Eight of these books were illustrated by Clifford Geary in a distinctive white-on-black scratchboard style.

Eight of the top party leaders, including Tim Buck, were arrested and convicted under Section 98 in 1931.