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| Bangor
/ Penobscot |
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Mar. 2, 1838 |
Wilford Woodruff,
James Townsend |
First missionaries
to preach in Bangor, a city of 10,000. Leave the next day: "I left
the city of Bangor like David: The Lord has delivered my soul from the
hands of wicked men." |
WWJ 1: 230. |
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| Farmington
/ Franklin |
| |
Summer 1832 |
Orson Hyde, Samuel H. Smith |
Baptize, organize branch of 20. |
¶ Orson
Hyde (h) |
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Late June–July
10, 1834 |
Sylvester B. Stoddard,
Josiah Butterfield |
10 members
present, baptize 7, "one of them a Methodist preacher, who is
now preaching the whole gospel, and bids fair to be a very useful member
in this church." |
MA 1, no. 2 (Nov. 1834):
24. |
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Sept.–Oct.
1834 |
Sylvester B. Stoddard |
Labors six weeks, baptizes one. |
MA 1, no. 2 (Nov. 1834):
24. |
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Oct. 2, 1835 |
The Twelve |
Conference (scheduled). |
¶ Minutes
of March 12, 1835 ; ¶ Heber
C. Kimball (h3) |
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| Newry
/ Oxford |
| |
Sept. 26, 1835 |
Edward Partridge,
William E. McLellin |
26 members. |
E. Partridge vol. 2. |
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| North
Haven / Knox (Fox Islands) |
| |
Oct. 1, 1837 |
Wilford Woodruff,
Jonathan Hale |
Organize branch of twelve. |
WWJ 1:80. |
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| Saco
/ York |
| |
Summer 1832 |
Orson Hyde, Samuel H. Smith |
Preach several times. |
¶ Orson
Hyde (h) |
| |
Jan. 20, 1834 |
John F. Boynton |
Has baptized "about
forty in this section." |
EMS 2, no. 17 (Feb.
1837): 270. |
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Feb. 20, 1834 |
Kirtland high council |
Schedules "a general
conference" for Saco, June 13, 1834. |
¶ Minutes
of February 20, 1834 |
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June 13, 1834 |
|
Conference (scheduled). |
¶ Minutes
of February 20, 1834 |
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Sept. 18, 1835 |
The Twelve |
Conference (scheduled). |
¶ Minutes
of March 12, 1835 |
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| Scarborough
/ Cumberland |
| |
Aug. 7, 1837 |
Wilford Woodruff, Phebe Woodruff |
Arrive to find Phebe's mother, Mrs. Carter,
ill. |
¶ Wilford
Wodruff (h2) |
| |
July 3, 1838 |
Wilford Woodruff,
Phebe Woodruff |
Wilford arrives in time for daughter's
birth on the 14th, leaves for the Fox Islands on the 30th. |
¶ Wilford
Wodruff (h3) |
| |
Sept. 4, 1838 |
Wilford Woodruff,
Phebe Woodruff |
Wilford and Fox Island Saints leave for Kirtland
(2,000 mi.). 53 in company. Arrive Rochester Dec. 19, "unable to proceed
further." |
¶ Wilford
Wodruff (h3) |
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| Umbagog
Lake area (straddles New Hampshire / Maine border near Canada) |
| |
Nov. 1833 |
A missionary from
Ohio, one from New Hampshire, and two from Saco, Maine |
"Nearly the whole of the
Freewill Baptist Church, numbering thirty persons, with their pastor,
have gone over to the Mormonites, and avowed their faith in the book
of Mormon." |
Portland Advertiser,
qtd. in "The Mormonites," Rochester Daily Advertiser,
Nov. 14, 1833. Source |
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| Vinal
Haven / Knox (Fox Islands) |
| |
Aug. 19, 1837 |
Wilford Woodruff,
Jonathan Hale, Milton Holmes |
Begin mission to Fox Islands. |
¶ Wilford
Woodruff |
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