![]() ![]() What neither Hyde nor Smith almost certainly did not realize was that the “Indian Missionary” with whom they conversed was on his way to becoming one of the foremost Native American evangelists and activists in antebellum America. This “intelligent son of Abraham” was identified as one “Apes” in Smith’s diary, whose own entry adds further detail:īrother had Some writing to do he wrote to Zion Sending the names of Some Subscribers for the Star gave viena & fifteen dollars reeived from Subscribers to carry to the Bishop in ? viSited by a man by the name of ApeS an Indian of the Peyrd tribe he waS a Preacher though Some unbelieveing at first but became more belileveing & concluded to give the work a candid investigation & invited us to Preach in his hall that hireed to preach in himsef & also invited uS to pay him a visit we concluded to go to Prividence & we told him that we would when we returned In sitting down with an intelligent son of Abraham and conversing with him is something agreeable. We agreed to call and see him quite an interesting time with him. Gave Sister Vienna Fifteen dollars to pay over to Brother Whitney in Ohio, for the Star talked two or three hours with a Indian Missionary who was believing, or at least, willing to give the subject a candid hearing of the Perqod Tribe gave us an invitation to preach in his hall, and also to come and pay him a visit. July 10th, 1832: Wrote to Zion sent 8 or 9 subscriptions for the “Star”. Hyde’s journal entry that evening reads as follows: On July 10, Hyde and Smith had a chance encounter with a Methodist preacher. That woman-Vienna Jacques-had prepared several of her friends and family members for the arrival of the itinerant missionaries, and Hyde and Smith gained several converts that summer, a number of whom came from the Bromfield Street Methodist Episcopal Church, to which Jacques had belonged prior to her conversion to Mormonism. The previous year, a young Methodist woman had traveled from Boston to Kirtland, Ohio, been baptized a Mormon, and then returned to her Massachusetts home. ![]() Smith arrived in Boston, Massachusetts to preach Mormonism to the people of what was then the fourth largest city in the United States. ![]()
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