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The Missionary Movements of the LDS Church in New England, 1830-1850 Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 1969 The Missionary Movements of the LDS Church in New England, 1830-1850 Richard Shelton Williams Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Mormon Studies Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Williams, Richard Shelton, "The Missionary Movements of the LDS Church in New England, 1830-1850" (1969). Theses and Dissertations. 5215. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5215 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. 40 THE missionary MOVEMENTS OF THE LDS CHURCH IN NEW ENGLAND 1830 1850 A thesis presented to the department of graduate studies in the college of religious instruction brigham young university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree master of arts by richard shelton williams june 1969 the writing of this work has been possible only through the effortefforts cooperation and help of many people the writer would like to express special appreciation to the followingfollcming to dr russell R rich who so willingly davasavegavegava of his ttimstimecims to offer many kindd and helpful suggestions to drs hyrum andrus and chauncey C riddle for their patience in reading the text and offerinzferenzoffering valuable criticisms to the staff at the LDS church historians library especially A william lund for his help and encouragement to vwny wifewiga lieleneienhelenheienwho constantly encouraged the writer to 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e 9 e 9 9 & 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 a 0 0 0 229 chapter I1 introduction statement of the problem A history of the early movements of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in sewnewmew england has never been written the purpose of this study is to write that history showing the introduction growth and development of missionary activities of the church in this area franfeanfeonfrom 1830 to 1850 justification of the Sstudy between 1830 and 1850 there was considerable missionary activity promoted by the mmembersers of the LDS church A grealgreat deal of this work was concentrated in the new eidlandendlandengland area of the united states As a result of this missionary effort many people from newnow england became converts to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints many sig- nificnificantant contributions to the early growth and developdevelopmentmeatmead of the limormormonn church were made by these neophytes A great nnumberor of the early leaders came from aamongng them much needed financial assistance was often given by them to the young and growing organization for a period of ttime these people from new england formed the bulwark of the church knowing these facts it was felt that the total written history of the LDS church would be incomplete without a careful study of the church activity in this area 2 definition of terms there arezare some terms which are used in this work which are pecu- liar to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints they are the following the term Aapostleostieostleshall refer to a mmemberer of the council of twelve apostles of the church of jesus christ of latterlualter day saints the term branch shall refer to a local organized group of members of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints the terntarntermtorm church shall refer to the church of jesus christ of latter day
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