21st After being blockaded with sickness with
my children & friends in Scarboro for near
a month & surrounded by great darkness during
the time for it seems as though the destroyer
was trying to hedge up my way to hender me on
my mission, & whare the destroyer is their is
darkness & sorrow, yet this I morning I feel
like biursting their bands & going my way. I took
cars at Saco in company with Mrs Woodruff
& our youngest child Susan Cornelia to start on
our way for New York & set sail for England
we rode to Haverhill & stoped & rode to Georgetown
in a waggon with Elder Hardy to Father Holmes &
we spent the night with them & had an interesting
church meeting with the Saints. I ordained Elder
Nathaniel Holmes to the office of High Priest
& one Elder 1 Priest & one deacon, they contributed
$3.50 cts to assist me on my Journey, distance 75 mi
I wrote a letter to Hiram Clark fare $6.50 to Boston
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