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Day in the Life

Aug 19, 1838

Journal Entry

August 19, 1838 ~ Sunday

Aug 19. I once more took the parting hand with the Saints & friend in the Simonton district & started for
Scarborough I bid the town of Camden Adieu for the last time. I rode to Warren 8 miles to Walderborough 8,
to Nobleborough 8, to Newcastle or Sheepscut 6, to Wiscossett 6 to Bath 10. I crossed Bath ferry & continued on
Wheelers Inn 4, and spent the night the whole distance that my horse carried me this day over a
rough road was 50 miles distance 50 m

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August 9, 1838
Wilford receives news of his calling as an apostle; and call to go on mission to England with apostles.

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