1840-12-05-Hartford CT Daily Courant-Mormons Arrived from England
From New York City LDS History
Mormons arrived from England
Hartford CT Daily Courant, v4 n288, 5 December 1840, p. 2.
Mormons arrived from England.—The packet ship North America, which arrived in New York last week, brought in her steerage 200 passengers, the whole of whom are "Latter Day Saints," or Mormons, bound for the Mormon settlement at Quincy. The Liverpool Chronicle states that upwards of 2000 are in treaty to embark early next spring for the same locality. A great portion of those who sailed in the North America are members of the abstinence society, and are from Leicestershire and Herefordshire.