The United Brethren were a group of former Primitive Methodists in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, England, that converted en masse to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1840.
In the mid-1830s, a group of approximately 600 Primitive Methodists led by Thomas Kington[1] left the Primitive Methodism movement and established an independent religious organization, which they called the United Brethren.
The church was divided into many small congregations scattered among the Three Counties, with 50 designated preachers for the group.
In March 1840, Latter Day Saint missionary and apostle Wilford Woodruff was brought to Hill Farm, Fromes Hill by William Benbow, a recent English convert to Mormonism.
Woodruff and other Latter Day Saint missionaries also had success among the non-United Brethren in the area, baptizing a total of 1800 people by January 1841.