Jennetta Richards's Baptism and Confirmation
Published October 4, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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Millennial Star Research
Jennetta Richards requested baptism after hearing the Gospel in Preston, and was baptized and confirmed by Elders Kimball and Hyde. This was the first confirmation of a member in a foreign land in the latter days.
In Their Own Words
“on Wednesday and Thursday evenings (August 2) the meetings were attended by Miss Jennetta Richards who was visiting her friends in: Preston, and on Friday she requested baptism, which was attended to by Elder Kimball, after which she was confirmed at the water side by Elders Kimball and Hyde, it being the first confirmation in a foreign land in these last days. — Millennial Star 18:28”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 12 July 1856 (Vol. 18, No. 28). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1856-07-12_18_28 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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