1844-02-27-Albany NY Evening Journal-Female Converts to Mormonism

Albany NY Evening Journal 27 February 1844 v14 n4229 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 luted 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.