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Sep 23, 1843

Journal Entry

September 23, 1843 ~ Saturday

23rd [FIGURE] $100. I called upon Br Kimball who let
me have $100 one hundred dollars on P P Pratt
account to Purchase Paper with. I took Breakfast
with Br Phelps, returned to Br Tuckers & took
the parting hand with Sister Tuker & Sister Bliss
I had made it my home here & they had been vary
kind to me. Sister Bliss had done my sewing made

me a present of a pencil & pocket Bible &c she
was the ownly one of all her connextions who had
embraced the gospel. She had a desire to come to
Nauvoo & mingle with the Saints Be baptized for her
dead &c. Br Tucker helped me to carry my trunk
to the depo. I Bought tickets in the first class cars
to westfield which cost me $3.30. I parted with
Br Tucker went into the cars & started we passed
through Worcester Springfield & stoped at Westfi
eld & as I got out I found that Elders P. P. Pratt
& E Snow was in the cars with me or the one before
me & I did not know it. I parted with them, they
went on home & I stoped at westfield, got a wagg
on to take to Crooked river to Br Ashbel Dewey's
whare I spent the night. distance 100 mile

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Dewey, Ashbel
1795-1846
10 mentions
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
641 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Hiram
31 May 1806 - 27 Apr 1863
35 mentions
Phelps, Jacob
1815-1888
16 mentions
Pratt, Parley Parker
12 Apr 1807 - 13 May 1857
523 mentions
Apostle
2 mentions

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1
Next day ^^ I called upon brother Heber C. Kimball who let me have one hundred dollars ^on P. P. Pratts act^ to purchase paper with; and on the same day started per rail to Westfield and when ^I^ we got to my destination for the day I found that P. P. Pratt and Erastus Snow were in the car before me without our knowing it. I parted with them and they continued homeward I continued my journey the next

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Sep 23, 1843