Day in the Life

Nov 21, 1844

Journal Entry

November 21, 1844 ~ Thursday

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
A hand pointing to the right I wrote a letter to Hiram Clark fare $6.50 to Boston

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Clark, Hiram, b. 1795
22 Sep 1795 - 28 Dec 1853
Hardy, Leonard Wilford
31 Dec 1805 - 31 Jul 1884
231 mentions
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Holmes, Nathaniel
15 Aug 1775 - 20 Feb 1849
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1580 mentions
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Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
360 mentions
Family

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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
with my wife's father and mother and on the I started with my wife and youngest child Susan Cornelia for New York to set sail for England A Peculiar Dream While at my father-in-laws I dreamt a peculiar dream. Much of it was unutterable and cannot be written. Indeed I cannot comprehend it myself. Among other things I thought I was called to hold with the Twelve the Keys of the Kingdom in all the world and I travelled with them over much of the earth and finally travelled through many countries alone and when I got through I saw many things which I cannot write and in the end Joseph Smith the Prophet assissted me to come into the place where he was and pointed out my work and portion of ^and^ labour. I immediately entered into the duties assigned me. I also had on the same night another dream. I was in the presence of the Prophet Joseph

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Nov 21, 1844