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Oct 9, 1838

Journal Entry

October 09, 1838 ~ Tuesday

Oct 9th We travled to Groton 18 miles to Townsend 10 to Ashby 2 miles & camped for the night at Mr
Calvin Hodgman & found the people exceding kind which has been the case thus far on the journey
our babe is now in good health & vary quiet & rides in her swing cradle with great ease distance 30 m[iles]

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Woodruff, Sarah Emma
14 Jul 1838 - 17 Jul 1840
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Ashby, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal

ON the afternoon of the , we took leave of Father Carter and family, and started upon our journey of 2,000 miles at this late season of the year, taking my wife with a suckling babe at her breast with me, to lead a company of fifty-three souls from Maine to Illinois, and to spend nearly

Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)

9th We arose in the morning refreshed by sleep we found a large frost upon the Earth yet the Sun arose plesent we jurnied to Lowell 3 miles from thence to Groton 15 miles to Towns- end 10 miles to Ashby 2 miles & we camped on a convenient yard or green at Mr Calvin Hodgman's & found the people exceding kind which has been the case on all our journey thus far Our Babe is now in Good health & vary quiet & rides in her swing cradle with great ease distance of the day 30 mil Expenses of the day $2.30 cts

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

On the afternoon of the 9th of Octo- ber, we took leave of Father Carter and family, and started upon our journey of two thousand miles at this late season of the year, taking my wife with a suckling babe at her breast with me, to lead a company of fifty-three souls from Maine to Illinois, and to spend nearly three months in traveling in wagons, through rain, mud, snow and frost. It was such a trial as I never before had attempted during my experience as a minister of the gospel. On our arrival at Georgetown we were joined by Elder Milton Holmes. We traveled each day as far as we could go, and camped wherever night overtook us.

Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865

Fill up the interval from to with the journey and casualities of camp life including a severe attack of something like the colera upon myself and the sickness of several children one of whom afterwards died. At this date our company began to seperate Elder M. Holmes took steam boat at Buffalo for Fairport and after another day's travel brother Cyrus Sterrett and his family and brother Wahitley and family returned to the city of Buffalo to spend the winter as the expence was so great it was thought we could not all get to Zion. So they stoped to labour and brother Thomas let them have a span of horses and a waggon to help them up in the Spring. Here it should be observed that in the very starting of this company Nathaniel Thomas had cheerfully steped forward to the assistance of the poor and invested about 1000 dollars for waggons horses tents &c to fit out this company while others who possessed this world's goods also, drew back and did not go with the poor lest they should be under the necessity of assisting.

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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.

Oct 9, 1838