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Sep 9, 1841

Journal Entry

September 09, 1841 ~ Thursday

9th I recieved $40 dollars of Dr John M
Bernhisel
for President Joseph Smith ^176 Hudson St^ also
Stephens travels in Central America
in 2 volums olso one letter. This is one of my
days of perplexity & confusion as I am to leave
the city to day & have as much business to attend
to in 6 hours as I ought to do in two days
it seems to be my lot thus far in life to be hurried
& crowded along as though I had but few mom-
ents to live. I spent the fore part of the day
in packing trunk's beds &c I lalso called upon RL R Foster

NB Sept 9th Received of Willford Woodruff

15 Books of Mormon bound in calf $1.50 cts each $34.50
4 [Books of Mormon] bound in sheep $1 [cts each] 4.00
28 Millennial Stars bound $1 each 248.00
$66.50

The above is to be paid to Willford Woodruff
when called for or the Books returned
L R Foster

After labouring exceding hard throught the
day I took the parting hand with the Saints at
186 woster & other places, & started for the {steam}
Boat Sanduskey Ilus F Carter carried me to the
Boat with 533 lbs of baggage we got Blockaided
in the street on the way which made us trouble &
detained us, but after much perplexity we got
on board of the boat at 6 oclock & departed for
Albany on our road for Nauvoo our little comp-
any of Saints consisted of 6 persons viz—
Willford & Phebe W. Woodruff, Henry H. & Mary
Moore
, Mary M. Wheeler & Mary E Nelson
Sister Wheeler had 600 lbs baggage

I found on looking over my expenses including
all I had paid out while in New York was $88.36

After getting under way & aranging matters I
being vary weary I lay down & had a comfortable
nights rest

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Carter, Ilus Fabyan
8 Nov 1816 - 11 Dec 1888
392 mentions
Family
Bernhisel, John Milton
23 Jun 1799 - 28 Sep 1881
313 mentions
Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2227 mentions
Foster, Lucian Rose
12 Nov 1806 - 19 Mar 1876
35 mentions
Greene, Mary Eliza Nelson Young
24 Nov 1805 - 29 Dec 1885
4 mentions
3 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
Family

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September 8, 1841 ~ Wednesday 8th Wars & rumours of wars earthquakes tempest pestilence & great fires, connected with almost evry kind of wickedness distress & destruction is begining to be heard thrught almost evry land & nation
~ Wilford Woodruff

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On the , a little company, consisting of myself, wife and son, and four others, started on board the boat Sandusky for Albany. Our ulti- mate destination was Nauvoo, where we
Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1
On the a little company consisting of myself wife and son and four others started on board the boat Sandusky for Albany. Our ultimate destination was Nauvoo w[h]ere we arrived on the

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Sep 9, 1841