of the Mormon Church and its missionaries and members, and the Priesthood Ban against Blacks

preached to the people the doctrines believed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ” – Brigham Young [This appears to be the first known visit of an LDS missionary to the city of Lowell. That year, on November 25, “Walker Lewis of Lowell, Barber ” sold a tract of land in nearby Cambridge, Mass. to his five brothers and two brothers-in-law for use as a “family tomb”, so we know it is possible that Walker Lewis may have been a proselyte of Brigham Young that year.] Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt Summer 1835 – The proselyting twelve apostles “continued our journey through the Eastern States, holding conferences in every place where branches of the Church had been organized, ordaining and instructing Elders and other officers; exhorting the members to continue in prayer and in well doing....The month of August 1835, found us in the State of Maine, and the mission completed.... We now returned to Boston, and from thence home to Kirtland, where we arrived sometime in October [1835]. ” (Chap. 16) Quinn, Origins of Powe