1835-03-27-Boston Recorder-Mormons in Hampshire County

Mormons in Hampshire County!

Source: Boston Recorder, v20 n13, 27 March 1835, pg. 51

Mormons in Hampshire County!—What will the citizens of this country say to the story, that they are being rapidly converted to Mormonism? Strange as it may seem, it is becoming quite current in the newspapers, that Mormonism has got fast hold in South Hadley, and is rapidly spreading in the neighboring towns. To correct erroneous impressions abroad, we would state that there is not a Mormon, or part of one, or any sect akin to the Mormonites, in this vicinity. The little sect at South Hadley are somewhat extravagant, and physical, in their mode of worship, but they profess the Christian religion. We doubt whether they are under so great mental delusion as some who have undertaken to give a history of them. There is as much Mormonism in this County, as there is Budhism, and no more. A correspondent gave a pretty correct account of their forms of worship in one of our late papers.