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Day in the Life

Aug 18, 1841

Journal Entry

August 18, 1841 ~ Wednesday
Aug 18th I spent the day at Fathers House it being
the last day that I spent there this makes 41 days
that I have spent at my Fathers house the longest
visit I have made with any of my friends for
the last 10 years. During my stay on this occasion I
have had the privilege of performing the marriage
cerimony of my ownly sister, Eunice Woodruff &
Elder Dwight Webster. Also Baptized & confirmed
two into the Church viz Aunt Bulah Hart & Jennet
Stedman this was a consolation to me. I took the
parting hand with Father and all the houshold & went
on board of the Farmington Canal Boat Capt Denton,
Erastus Woodruff & Ozem Woodruff were the hands
on board, we spent the night on board, about one
mile from Fathers House

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
572 mentions
Family
Hart, Beulah
bef. 1784-aft.1843
22 mentions
Family
1 mention
Host
Webster, Dwight
13 Apr 1814 - 19 Aug 1868
134 mentions
Family
11 mentions
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Webster, Eunice Hart Woodruff
19 Jun 1821 - 14 Jun 1853
270 mentions
Family
Stedman, Jennette
1 May 1795 - 22 Jul 1888
11 mentions
Woodruff, Ozem, b. 1787
3 Nov 1787 - 18 Feb 1871
159 mentions
Family

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
on the of the month I bade fare- well to my father's house after a stay of forty-one days. This was a longer visit than I had paid to any of my friends for the last ten years.
Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
was baptized into the Church and on the of the month I bade farewell to my father's house after a stay of forty one days. This was a longer visit than I had paid to any of my friends for the last ten years Two days after we reached New Haven the capitol of my native State which I had not seen for 15 years and it gave me pleasure to see it once more I arrived in New York with my

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Aug 18, 1841