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Day in the Life

Dec 19, 1839

Journal Entry

December 19, 1839 ~ Thursday

[FIGURE] Dec 19th 18439 The Packet Ship Oxford moved out into the stream with us on board
& the day was spent amid the greatest confusion & bustle that I ever witnessed
for they had taken many more passengers than births to lodge in & the cabin
was stuffed full of chests boxes barrels beds &c & many quarrelling for what they called
their rights

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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)

19 The ship moved out into the stream & anchord & the day was spent amid the greatest conf usion bustle & fuss that ever I witne ssed for they had taken on board many more passengers than births [berths] to lodge in & the cabin was store full of chests & Boxes, trunks, barrels, & beds &c & many quarrelling for what they called their rights

Autobiography 1857 Draft 1

the th, in company with Elder John Taylor & ^Theodore^ Turley I went on board of the

Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865

the packet ship Oxford moved out into the stream with us on board She had 64 steaerage passengers and 15 cabin passengers. The ship was under the command of Capt John Rathbone There was in all on board 109 souls. The last day of the year found us In the Middle of the Alantic The sea was very rough and the weather cloudy and we sailed under close reefed topsails. We were one thousand nine hundred miles from New York I will close this chapter with my

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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 19, 1839