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Day in the Life

Nov 8, 1839

Journal Entry

November 08, 1839 ~ Friday

8 I held a meeting in Hempsted at the Inn of Mr John Ackley & returned to Mr Whaley 6 m
I saw Mrs Woodruff in deep affliction ian a dream at Montrose. I did not see Sarah Emma

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Whaley, James
abt. 1798-1881
2 mentions
4 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1579 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Emma
14 Jul 1838 - 17 Jul 1840
164 mentions
Family

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Hempstead, Nassau County, New York
Montrose, Lee County, Iowa Territory

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Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal

on the morning of the . I spent two months and seven days after my arrival in New York, traveling and preaching in that city, New Jersey and Long Island, a portion of the time with Parley and Orson Pratt. I had frequent attacks during this time of the chills and fever, but I preached almost daily.

Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 1

left for New York where I arrived in the Morning of the

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

of the . I spent two months and seven days after my arrival in New York, in travel- ing and preaching in that city, New Jersey and Long Island, a portion of the time with Parley and Orson Pratt. I had frequent attacks during this time of the chills and fever, but I preached al- most daily.

Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)

8th I held a meeting in Hempsted at the Inn of Mr John Ackley & returned to Br Whaley 6 m[iles] I saw Phebe in affliction {shorthand} in a dream I did not see Sarah Emma

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November 1839
Times and Seasons, official Church newspaper, first published in Nauvoo, Illinois (continuously published until February 1846).
1840
Church membership is 16,800; population of the 26 United States is 17,100,000.

Nov 8, 1839