1844-02-16-New York Evening Post-Female Converts to Mormonism
From New York City LDS History
- New York Evening Post 16 February 1844 v.XLII p. 2
Female Converts to Mormonism
Two young women were baptized into the Mormon faith on Sunday afternoon, in the South Mill Pond—a hole of a few yards square, where the water was about three feet deep, having been cut in the ice for the purpose. The administrator of the ordinance, in his common dress, of pantaloons, &c., but in his shirt sleeves, first stepped from the edge of the ice into the opening, and then the young women, one after the other, were assisted into the water baptized, and lifted out again upon the ice. The administrator made a prefatory address to the audience, but if there were prayers, singing, &c., the services probably took place somewhere under cover—Salem Mass. Gaz.
