Jared Carter (June 14, 1801 – July 6, 1849) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He has been described as "one of the Church's great missionaries" of the 1830s. Carter was born in Benson, Vermont, where his family had moved from Killingworth, Connecticut in the late 1700s. In 1831, while living in Broome County, New York, he was introduced to the Book of Mormon and the new church founded by Joseph Smith the year before. On February 20, 1831, Carter was baptized into the Church of Christ by Hyrum Smith. In June, Carter was made a priest and in September, he was made an elder. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed by Smith to be a missionary in the eastern United States. On this mission, he healed and baptized John Tanner, one of the primary financial benefactors of the early