Day in the Life
Journal Entry
July 07, 1840 ~ Tuesday
July 7th I met with the Twelve & many officers in coun-
cil at the Star office whare much important business
was transacted & council given. a place of labour in the
vineyard was assigned to each officer untill the next con-
ference. I dined in company with Br & Sister Richards at
Brother Bewsher No 4 Gray street we then met the 12
in front of the Infirmary & we walk to a paper storehouse
whare Elders Young & Pratt had made a contract for
Paper sufficent to print 5000 copies of the Book of
Mormon after seeing the paper weighed & paid for which
amounted to £107 {[illegible shorthand]} we then walked to Br Millers & eat
& drank with about 20 Elders which was a plesant time we
then walked to the Star Office & the quorum of the Twelve
sat in council & voted that P. P. Pratt might go to New York
& get his family, & Elder Theadore Turley should
lead a company of Saints from England to commerce
in the U S A, & after some other business the council
adjourned untill tomorrow morning to meet at this room
I spent the night with Elder Fielding at Sister Ann Booth
{Distance of the day} 6 miles
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Booth, Anne Eastwood
5 Feb 1791 - 25 Jul 1874
4 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Miller, Charles Dutton
24 Aug 1816 - 22 Jan 1878
22 mentions
Bewsher, James
abt. 1800-aft. 1843
10 mentions
Richards, Jennetta
21 Aug 1817 - 9 Jul 1845
30 mentions
Fielding, Joseph
26 Mar 1797 - 19 Dec 1863
39 mentions
Pratt, Parley Parker
12 Apr 1807 - 13 May 1857
548 mentions
Apostle
Turley, Theodore
10 Apr 1801 - 12 Aug 1871
143 mentions
Richards, Willard
24 Jun 1804 - 11 Mar 1854
541 mentions
Apostle
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Joseph Smith's first explanation of doctrine on baptism for the dead by living relatives.
First baptisms for the dead performed in the Mississippi River.
Joseph Smith announces the need to build a temple in Nauvoo.