Autobiography 1858 Deseret News
Canada]], and attended a conference, ,
with Elders John E. Page and James Blakesly,
in the township of Bastard, Leeds Co. There
were eight branches represented, containing
300 members, 13 elders, 5 priests, 8 teachers
and 6 deacons. Elder Wm. Draper and my-
self ordained 7 elders, 9 priests, 11 teachers
and 5 deacons: five were baptized by Elder
Page at the close of the conference.
A woman was possessed of the devil and
greatly afflicted, much of the time was dumb;
four of us laid hands upon her, and cast the
devil out in the name of Jesus Christ, and she
was made whole, and gave thanks unto God,
and went on her way rejoicing.
We visited several other branches and
preached the word of God, and several of the
sick were healed.
We returned to Kingston, took steamer for
Oswego, and canal for Albany; bros. John
Goodson, Isaac Russell and John Snider ac-
companied us from Canada, and left us at
Schenectady, to join Elders Kimball, Hyde
and Richards at New York, to go to England.
We walked from Albany to Farmington,
Conn.; attended a conference of the Saints in
