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Dec 16, 1839

Journal Entry

December 16, 1839 ~ Monday

16th I went on board the packet ship Oxford & engaged my Passage to Liverpool to
sail on the 19th inst. I also wrote a letter to Father & Mother Carter I spent the
A hand pointing to the right evening in making preperations for our departure 6 m[iles]

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Carter, Ezra, b. 1773
18 Mar 1773 - 10 Mar 1868
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Carter, Sarah Fabyan
8 Apr 1775 - 24 Jul 1845
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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
16th [FIGURE] I went on Board the Oxford a packet ship & engaged my passage to Liverpool on the 19th inst I also [FIGURE] wrote a letter to Father & Mother Carter I spent the evening in making preperation for our departure {distance of the day} 6 miles

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

Dec 16, 1839