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Sep 29, 1841

Journal Entry

September 29, 1841 ~ Wednesday

289th 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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Sep 29, 1841