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Day in the Life

Dec 18, 1839

Journal Entry

December 18, 1839 ~ Wednesday

18th I laboured hard all day to prepaire for our voyage. three of us got our baggage on
board viz Elders Taylor Turley & myself Elders Turley & myself sleped on board 4

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Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1942 mentions
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Turley, Theodore
10 Apr 1801 - 12 Aug 1871
143 mentions

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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
18 I laboured hard all day to prepare for our sailing voyage three of us carried our
Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
Oct Dec baggage on board viz Elders Taylor, Turley, & myself. Elder Turley & myself slept on board

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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.

Dec 18, 1839