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Jul 30, 1838

Journal Entry

July 30, 1838 ~ Monday

30 [FIGURE] I received a letter from Elder Milton Holmes I forwarded him two pamphlets by Mail. I took the
parting hand with Mrs Woodruff & Father Carters family to go to visit fox Islands for the last time, for the
purpose of assisting as many of the Saints as are ready to prepare their teams waggons & teams to go to the
land of Zion. O my God prosper my way give me favor with the Saints enable a goodly number of them to go to
the land of Zion deliver me from the hands of my enemies bless my wife & the babe which thou has given us, while
I am absent enable me to return to again greet them in health I ask these blessings in the name of Jesus Christ Amen
I walked to Portland and spent the night with Ezra Carter jr distance of the day 10 miles

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Carter, Ezra, b. 1773
14 Feb 1773 - 10 Mar 1868
284 mentions
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Carter, Ezra, b. 1804
29 Apr 1804 - 11 May 1887
163 mentions
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217 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
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Woodruff, Sarah Emma
14 Jul 1838 - 17 Jul 1840
160 mentions
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Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal

On the , 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 [[Vinalhaven, Waldo County, Maine|Vinal

Autobiography 1865 Millennial Star

——I left Scarborough and re- turned to the islands. I preached several times to large congregations in the Methodist meeting-house, in East Thomastown, and in the town hall in Camden, before crossing to the islands,

Autobiography 1857 Draft 1

On the I left Scarborough and returned to the Islands I preached several times to large congregations in Thomaston & the methodist meeting house in East Thomaston and in the Town Hall in Camden before crossing to the Islands where I arived on the

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

On the , I left my wife and child at Father Carter's and started once more to visit Fox Islands. While holding meeting with the Saints

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1

remained with her until the a portion of the time engaged in manual labour. On this day I started for the Islands again and

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Wilford receives news of his calling as an apostle; and call to go on mission to England with apostles.

Jul 30, 1838