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  • Page 24

    Part of Autobiography Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine 1883-84

    Excerpt:
    AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. [Column 1] On the 30th of July, I left my wife and child at Father Carter's and started once more to visit Fox Islands. While holding meeting with the Saints at North Vinal Haven on the 9th of August, I received a letter from Thomas B. Marsh, who was then President of the Twelve Apostles, informing me that Joseph Smith, the Prophet, had received a revelation, naming ...
    Dates:
    July 30, 1838 August 9, 1838 August 19, 1838 September 1, 1838 October 3, 1838 October 9, 1838 October 13, 1838 October 24, 1838 October 31, 1838 November 2, 1838 April 26, 1839

  • Page 66

    Part of Journal (January 1, 1838 – December 31, 1839)

    Excerpt:
    October 1, 1838 ~ Monday Oct 1st It is unusally warm for the season. I conveyed Sister Rhoda Scamans home in a waggon we are still waiting in great anxiety for the camp to arive. O how slow they moove 10 miles October 2, 1838 ~ Tuesday 2nd Elder Townsend has this morning started for the east to look up the camp of the saints to see whare they are & what they are about that they do not get along [FIGURE] I wrote a letter ...
    Dates:
    October 1, 1838 October 2, 1838 October 3, 1838 October 4, 1838

  • Page 64

    Part of Leaves From My Journal

    Excerpt:
    LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. ever, in company with Nathanial Thomas, who had sold his property and had money, I went to the mainland and pur- chased ten new wagons, ten sets of harness and twenty horses. When I got everything prepared for the company to start, I left the affairs with Brother Thomas, and went on ahead of the company to Scarboro, to prepare my own family for the journey. The outfit which I purchased for the company cost about $2,000.00. Before leaving ...
    Dates:
    August 19, 1838 October 3, 1838 October 9, 1838

  • Page 26

    Part of Autobiography 1865 Millennial Star

    Excerpt:
    Church, consisting of nine members, eight of whom were relatives. I or- dained Dwight Webster a Priest, and administered the sacrament. July 3—I started for the State of Maine, and arrived at father Carter's, in Scarborough, on the 6th. —14—My wife was delivered of a daughter at her father's house; we named her Sarah Emma. 22—I wrote to Thomas B. Marsh, ...
    Dates:
    July 3, 1838 July 6, 1838 July 14, 1838 July 22, 1838 July 30, 1838 August 7, 1838 August 9, 1838 August 13, 1838 August 19, 1838 October 1, 1838 October 3, 1838 October 4, 1838 December 19, 1838 March 8, 1839 March 13, 1839 March 16, 1839 March 17, 1839

  • Page 32

    Part of Autobiography 1857-1858 Draft 1

    Excerpt:
    in procuring about two thousand d ollars worth of horses, waggons, tents &c for the company. He paid about $1,500 of the expens himself $1,000 of which was to furnish conveyance for the poor after purchasing the outfit for the company and urging the importance of their starting as soon as possible not later than the first of Sept. On the 19th Aug I left thesaints ^upon the Islands^ returned to town of Camden where we had prepared our outfit and returned to
    Dates:
    August 19, 1838 October 1, 1838 October 3, 1838 October 4, 1838 October 4, 1838 December 19, 1838 March 8, 1839