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Sep 29, 1841

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September 29, 1841 ~ Wednesday

289^th I hired Mr J. B Collins of Princes Grove
Illinois to carry me & Sister
Nelso & my family & 800 lbs of baggage to Nauvoo
for $21.00 or $2 dollars per cwt Mr Sidney Roberts
engaged a man to carry him at the same rate
we loaded our baggage & left Chicago at 10 oclock
had a vary bad road first 12 miles rode 27 miles &
spent the night at Mr Gates Inn 27 m[iles]

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October 3, 1841

directs Church members to stop proxy baptisms in , wait for completion of font.

October 6, 1841

Wilford, , and arrive in , Illinois.

October 19, 1841

Wilford and move into their own home for the first time in their married life.

October 30, 1841

Wilford is appointed to City Council.

November 8, 1841

Wooden font dedicated in the unfinished basement of .

November 21, 1841

Wilford witnesses first baptisms for the dead in the .

Sep 29, 1841