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Apr 21, 1841

Journal Entry

April 21, 1841 ~ Wednesday
21st Wednesday the wind is favorable & we are all
vary busy in nailing down & lashing our baggage to
prepare for sea. The Anchor was hauled up & sails
spread at 12 o-clock & started on our voyage, ** we had
a good breeze through the day but most all the passengers
were sea sick & stacked up in heaps & vomiting at a
dreadful rate. We had a room built for our quorum
in the second cabin, the second cabin was mostly
occupied by the Saints the steerage by other passe
ngers. Fare was £3.15 We were allowed the privilege
of the Aft quarter deck. The Rochester is a fast
sailing vessel vessel of about 1000 tons we passed by
all the ships that went out of Liverpool at the time
we did, among the number was the Oxford of the line
the one that we sailed to England in in 1840

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Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Autobiography 1857 Draft 2
— arrived in New York ,. I went to Scarborough, Maine, got ^after^ my wife, and also ^also^ my son, Wilford, whom I had not before seen, he was born
Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
Rochester. Next , the wind being favorable, the ship weighed anchor. There were on board Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, George A. Smith, Wilford Woodruff, Willard Richards and John Taylor, of the Twelve, with Elder Reuben Hedlock and 120 of the British Saints. On our passage across the Atlantic we had some very tempestuous weather and became familiar with "a storm at sea."
Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
Next day Wednesday the the wind being favourable we weighed anchor at 12 o'clock and started on our voyage, and had a good breze^eze^ through^out^ the day but most of the passengers were sea sick The Rochester was a fast sailing vessel of about 1000 tons and there was on board 1020 Saints including seven of the Twelve; 160 not of our people and the ships company making in all 307 souls. On the seventh day of our voyage we had all the pleasure with a touch or two of the disasters of A Storm at Sea. In the morning we found strong head winds which soon increased to a powerful storm and the scene which followed was full of grandeur and considerable discomfiture to our company. The sails were taken in as soon as possible and it took 16 men to close reef the main topsail The tempest in its rage was now all powerful & the sea piled up into mountains. Ever and anon our ship was thrown up on the crest of one of those ocean mountains and then pitched into the valeley beneath rocking tremendously and occassionly shiping seas In the midst of this was a cry for help was heard in our cabin. I rushed to the scene from whence the cry came and found the ropes giving way which held the luggage piled up between decks Had this broken loose one surge would have hurlled heavy trunks barrels &c into the births [berths] of the men woman and children which would have endangered the lives of many. On seeing the foundation of this mass give way Willard Richards and myself sprang to the place of danger and braced

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Apr 21, 1841