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Jan 12, 1840

Journal Entry

January 12, 1840 ~ Sunday

12 Sunday I arose in the morning & took
(Breakfast shall I say) I eat it is true, & used
a peace of bread for a plate & my fingers
for a knife & fork & was charged high for
it at that. I herd some of the passengers boast
of the superior accomodations in England to
those of Americe I confess I could not
eat without smileing thinking if this is the
superior Englaish accomodations I do not
know what those of the next Nation will
be. I would not wish the reader to under
stand this to be a proper sample of English
customs, but ownly as we were strangers
we had the misfortune to be directed to
a place of the above description We paid
our Bill & retired. We walked to the shiping &

through a number of the streets & called at
M. Seymour Rotunda Place No. 7 Waterloo road
to spend the day & night. After Dining I atten
ded meeting at St Pauls Church & also
St Thomas'es Church both of the Church
of England. It was singular to hear these
rectors & curits [curates] preach against the form
of Godliness without the power of it, while
at the same [time] their is no people perhaps
more formal than themselves. I also
attended meeting at Pitt Stree Methodist Chapel
the speaker appeared quite easy & simple
in his manners all of the above named chapels
were quite splended with the stand near
the centre of the house which is the English
costom they bury their dead in the yard
all around their church & lay the grave
stones flat upon the ground & it forms
a pavement to walk upon. I find the people
both rich & poor, male & female to be m-
uch more plain in their dress than those
of America. I returned to M Seymour
& spent the night

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The Church of St. Paul, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
The Church of St. Thomas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 12 January 1840
Liverpool England My Dear Phebe In compay with John Taylor & Theadore Turley I sit down & in great haste drop a few lines to you to inform you that we have this day just arivd in this City by way of the packet Ship Oxford which left New York dock on the 19th of Dec & Saild on the 20th this is the 23d day Sine we set Sail. We have made an excedg [exceeding] good voyage considering the time of the year & weather, the Steam Ship Liverpool left New York 5 days before the Oxford & yet we reachd the dock at Liverpool about 10 minutes before her & about 30 minutes before the Indipendance that left N.Y. 10 days before us the Oxford, Liverpool, & Indipendance, all reachd Liverpool at the same hour. We had rough weather the foore part of the voyage sone of the tine it blew a gale but it was quite plesant the latter part of the time We were becalned 4 days. we were a little Sea Sick the first few days but very healthy since I think our Sea voyage has done us all good for we are all quite harty & healthy. We were 20 days out of sight of land. We had 107 souls on board composed of Anercans [Americans], English, Scotch, Irish, Weltch, Dutch, &c. We took Stearage pasage fare $15. dollars, We were quite crowded but the weather was quite comfortable I was quite pleased to once more walk on land esspecially to tread the Soil of Old Englad I have been quite pleased with Liverpool what little I have seen of it excepting the Smoke which is quite Dense We have just
Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
Jan 112 ^Sunday^ We took Breekfest {shorthand} it is true we eat & used used a peace of Bread for a plate & our fingers for knives & forks & charged high for it at that. I attended church at St Pauls church & St Thomas church I also attended meeting in pitt street Methodist chapel. I spent the night at M Seymour No 7 in Rotunda Place Waterloo Road. Distance from New York to Liverpool 3,500 miles 13th This day was attended with great confusion as the contents of our trunks had to go through the hands of the custom House Offices which was attended with expense & trouble, after going through this bustle we took the cars to Preston {shorthand} where to our great joy we greeted Elder Willard Richards & other Saints We spent the night with Eldr Richards distance of the day 32 miles I am now In the field prepered to go about my FMasters business I pray God to arm me for the Battle & give me the spirit of my mis- sion the procedings of my travels in the minis- try in England I shall record in another Book from this time forth

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1840
Church membership is 16,800; population of the 26 United States is 17,100,000.

Jan 12, 1840