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Show 3 relatives in the Preston area of Lancashire and it here that the was preaching.1 first Mormon missionaries to Great Britain commenced During the first two or three years missionary activity fined mainl y to Lancas hire and not until 1840 did the work rapid expansion into other sections of the United Kingdom. into Scotland commenced in 1839 when two native Scots, Wright and Samuel Mulliner, were called to fulfill mis s was undergo con- a The advance Alexander ions to their native land. 2 Alexander 1835. almost a The immediately May 5, a 1839. had left Banffshire and settled in Canada in year he following call to fulfill on Wright was left for Kirtland, lSmith, into the Mormon church and Ohio. Early in 1839 he received mission to Scotland and commenced his Once in New York, S cots and" ins tructed them in the Isaac Russel, baptized Wright things visited of the a journey thence number of fellow kingdom. ,,3 The other Canadians op. cit., II, 489-90, 498-9. John Goodson and John Snider. were 2Andrew Jenson, The Historical Record, Book I (Salt Lake City, 1889), 352; Andrew Jenson, Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (4 vols., Salt Lake City, Andrew Jenson History Company, 1901-36), III, 571 (hereinafter cited as Biographical Encyclopedia). 3Alexander Wright, Journal, 1839-44 (MS in Historian's Office, Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, herein Historian's Office), May 5-September 30, 1839. Church of Jesus Christ of after cited as Church Among the Mormons he visited in New York, Scottish predorpinant--Nisbet, McClean, Foster and Graham. surnames are |
