1852 GERSHOM DAY. Baptist Pioneer to Michigan and then California Murdered by Indians. Manuscript Mount Vernon

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1852 GERSHOM DAY. Baptist Pioneer to Michigan and then California Murdered by Indians. Manuscript Mount VernonRather desirable late 19th century from the journals and diaries of a husband and wife team of Baptist pastor missionaries during the early and middle 19th century. Rev. Gershom and Elizabeth Day moved to Michigan in 1836, just one year before its statehood and labored there revitalizing and planting Baptist works across the newly formed State. Having had some success, the thought of moving far west and establishing churches in along the West Coast in