Day in the Life

Jan 30, 1842

Journal Entry

January 30, 1842 ~ Sunday

30 Sunday I rode to Br John Benbow's on the prairie
6 miles from Nauvoo & preached at his house
& spent the night this was the first time I had been
to his house since my returne to Nauvoo I spent the
time vary plesantly while there his farm looked almost
like the garden of Eden I never had seen more
work done in one year on a prairie farm than on his
he had usurrounded it & crossed it with heavy ditches
& planted thorn hedges his dwelling, barns, sheds, garden
yards, orchards, &c waere all beautifully aranged
it much resembled some of the fairms of old England
it will be a plesant retreat for a summers ride
from Nauvoo the little Neighbourhood now consists
of five families from England all well united excepting
Wm Benbow who has denyed the faith & is a family by
himself I spent the evening about conversing with the
Brethren 6 miles

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Benbow, John
1 Apr 1800 - 12 May 1874
173 mentions
1840 British Convert, United Brethren
Benbow, William
11 Feb 1803 - 19 Dec 1886
31 mentions
1840 British Convert

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England
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois

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Religious – Book of Revelations 1832-1842
Joseph the Seer taught the following principles that the God & father of our Lord Jesus Christ was once the same as the Son or Holy Ghost but havi ng redeemed a world became the eternal God of that world he had a son Jesus Christ who redeem ed this earth the same as his father had a world which made them equal & the Holy Ghost would do the same in his turn & so would all the Saints

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February 3, 1842
Wilford appointed manager of the Church's official newspaper Times and Seasons.
February 19, 1842
Wilford sets type for printing/publishing the Book of Abraham in Times and Seasons.

Jan 30, 1842