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Day in the Life

Dec 28, 1839

Journal Entry

December 28, 1839 ~ Saturday

28 A vary rough sea, most of the day we saw a large school of porposes & Blackfish
all around the ship. we had a calm in the evening

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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
28th A vary rough sea most of the day. We saw a large school of porposes & Blackfish all around the ship. We had a calm in the evening

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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 28, 1839