HER CHRISTENING: As adult, Hannah Libby; 2nd Congregational Church; Scarborough, ME[1] Hannah Knight Libby Carter was a refined, cultured woman. The family belonged to the Methodist Church. In 1834, Mormon elders brought to them in their home in Maine the gospel. [2]"I first embraced Mormonism in 1834, in the town of Newry, Oxford County, State of Maine. The first Mormon elders I ever heard preach were John F. Boynton and Daniel Bean. They came to my father's house, and my mother lay very sick. The doctors had given her up. The elders told her they were preaching a new doctrine and they told her that she could be healed if she could have faith, that they would hold hands on her. They did lay hands on her and said, 'In the name of the Lord Jesus be thou made whole.' And she was made whole and arose and called for her clothes and said I must go to the water. She walked one-half mile and was baptized in the river called Bear River and confirmed. And there was a large branch raised up in that place."John Carter did not join the Church. When his wife was healed, he said, "That beats doctor bills." But he never joined the Church. Of the nine children, Dominicus, Hannah, who had married Aaron York, William F., John, Eliza Ann, and Richard were all baptized, most of them in June, 1834. Two daughters and one son never became members." [3] [4]
On March 2, 1805, Hannah Knight Libby was married to John Carter. He was born in Scarborough, Maine, the son of Richard Carter and Jane McKenney the 17th of May, 1782. To them 11 children were born, the first three in Scarborough, and the rest in Newry, and as recorded by Phillip L. Carter, one of the children:
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