1840-10-31-Niles National Register-Mormons

Mormons

Niles' National Register, v9 n9, 31 October 1840, p. 144.

MORMONS. Latter day saints. The Liverpool Chronicle says:—"The New York packet ship North America, captain Lowbar, sailed on Tuesday week, with 19 cabin passengers and 200 in the steerage. The whole of the steerage passengers belong to a sect called "Latter Day Saints," and bound for Quincy, in the state of Michigan, on the borders of the Mississippi, where a settlement has been provided for them by one of their sect, who has purchased a large tract of land in Michigan. We understand that upwards of 2,000 are in treaty to embark early next spring for the same locality. A great portion of those who sailed in the North America or members of the total abstinence society, and are from Leicestershire and Herefordshire. They are shipped by the respectable house of Fitzhugh & Grimshaw, of this town.