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Day in the Life

Sep 11, 1839

Journal Entry

September 11, 1839 ~ Wednesday

11th The storm continues & the lake foams with such violence that we could not move out
into the harbor with any degree of safety. it was a dull day to me while crouded in the midst of deck passengers

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Lake Erie, United States

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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
11th The storm continues & the lake foams with such violence that we could not move out of the harb our with any safety it was a dul day to me while cro wded in the midst of a company of deck passengers

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November 1839
Times and Seasons, official Church newspaper, first published in Nauvoo, Illinois (continuously published until February 1846).

Sep 11, 1839