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Sep 13, 1839

Journal Entry

September 13, 1839 ~ Friday

13th I took passage at Buffaloo for Albany on board the Col Worth on the Erie Canal at 1 1/2 cent per mile
for 365 miles to Albany we rode to Lockport 90 miles 90

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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
13th I took passage at Buffalo for Albay on board the Col Worth of the New York & Buffalo line on the Erie Canal at 1 1/2 cts per mile for 365 miles viz from Buffalo to Albany We left Buffalo at 5 oclock AM & rode to Brockport distance 90 [miles].

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

Sep 13, 1839