Country Profiles
USA-New Hampshire
Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson, early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, arrived in New Hampshire in 1832 as missionaries. They stayed for 26 days and baptized 20 people. In the 1840s, several congregations met. One leader, Eli P. Maginn, wrote that he could not "fill from one to twenty of the calls for preaching; there is the greatest excitement in the country."Missionary work in New Hampshire lessened in the late 1850s, after the murder of the Church President Joseph Smith and the subsequent mass movement west by Church members.
Membership | 8,238 |
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Missions | 1 |
Congregations | 21 |
Family History Centers | 6 |