We immediately commenced nailing and painting the wagon covers and preparing them against stormy weather. I discovered that the company needed a leader. I laboured with them until night and then returned to Father Ezra Carter, b. 1773|Carter's. It was an affecting time to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff|Phebe as she was about to part from all her relatives. We spent most of the ^next^ day in painting and preparing…

Expenses $2.75 cts had a young Sarah Emma Woodruff|child Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff|she excepted the invitation & I lay down upon a bed that I had spread in the tent & after lying two hours I got up to stand on guard & I sat up the remainder of the night built up a fire & wrote these lines by it the distance of the day 13 miles October…

& family, Ebenezer Waterman Carver|Ebenezer Carver & family & a young man by the name of Alonzo Thurstin|Alonzo Thurstin. From Camden, Lincoln County, Maine|Camden William Whitley Jr.|Daniel Whitley & family, from Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine|Scarborough Elder James Foss Townsend|James Townsend & family, & Elder Willford Woodruff & family this camp consisted of 8 families the whole numbering 53 persons we had 10 waggons & 19 horses & after being…