Pernyataan bersama Tiga Saksi Mata—Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, dan David Whitmer—dicetak (dengan pernyataan terpisah dari Delapan Saksi Mata) dalam nyaris setiap edisi Kitab Mormon sejak publikasi perdananya pada 1830. Seluruh tiga pria tersebut kemudian pecah kongsi dengan Smith dan gereja yang ia dirikan, meskipun Harris dan Cowdery kemudian dibaptis ulang dalam gereja tersebut setelah kematian Smith.[2][3] Whitmer mendirikan Gereja Kristus (Whitmerite) miliknya sendiri. Seluruh tiga pria tersebut menyatakan pernyataan mereka dari Kitab Mormon pada masa kematian mereka.[4][5]
^Faulring, Scott H. "The Return of Oliver Cowdery". The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarshup. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2015-10-21. Diakses tanggal 14 February 2014.
^Givens, Terryl (2009), The Book of Mormon: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, hlm. 99 ("the three witnesses all defected from Smith and his church, (only Whitmer permanently), though all maintained until death the truth of the affidavits.")
^In 1838, Joseph Smith called Cowdery, Harris, and Whitmer "too mean to mention; and we had liked to have forgotten them." B.H. Roberts, ed. History of the Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1905), 3: 232. Technically, Whitmer resigned before the High Council decided that he "be no longer considered a member of the Church of Christ of Latter day Saints." Ronald E. Romig, "Faithful Dissenter, Witness Apart," in Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher, Dissenting Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, p. 36; Michael Marquardt, "David Whitmer: His Evolving Beliefs and Recollections," in Scattering of the Saints, Schism within Mormonism, eds. Newell G. Bringhurst and John C. Hamer, (Independence, MO: John Whitmer Books, 2007) p. 50.