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Day in the Life

Dec 8, 1844

Journal Entry

December 08, 1844 ~ Sunday

8th Capt Wm Skiddy & 10 cabin passengers came
on board of the ship & they hoisted sail &
we went out of Sandy Hook about 11 oclok
the pilot left us, & we steered our course
we were now on board of the new splendid
Packet ship JOHN R. SKIDDY Captain

Wm Skiddy with 10 1st cabin Passengers,
16 2nd cabin & about 100 steerage. their
was 20 seaman, 3 mates, 2 carpenters, 2 cooks
2 stewards making about 156 in all. 8 of
us had one half of the second cabin by
ourselves, which we considerd a great privilege
our company consisted of myself & wife,
Elder Hiram Clark & wife Elder Dan Jones &
wife & Elders Milton Holmes & Leonard Hardy.
This was the second time, I had set sail to
fulfill a mission to England, to assist in esstablish-
ing & building up the Church of Jesus Chrish.
The We travelled all day under a stiff North-
west wind

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Jones, Dan
4 Aug 1810 - 3 Jan 1862
99 mentions
Clark, Hiram, b. 1795
22 Sep 1795 - 28 Dec 1853
116 mentions
9 mentions
Hardy, Leonard Wilford
31 Dec 1805 - 31 Jul 1884
231 mentions
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Holmes, Milton
16 Jan 1811 - 30 Apr 1881
218 mentions
Maine Mission
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1580 mentions
Family
21 mentions
3 mentions

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England

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wind changed to the east commenced blowing a gale, it was head wind we were drove under bare poles through the day & evening it made us all dreadful sick, the sea was drea vary rough & piled Up like hills. the gale increased untill about 9 oclock in the evening it appeared as though it must tear the yards from the mast. We kneeled before the Lord & Prayed unitedly that the Lord would cause the gale to scease & the wind to change that we might go forward & not backward & in a little time after the wind instantly sceased & finally changed into the South West which gave us fair wind
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
hoisted going out of Sandy Hook about 11 o'clock th when the pilot left us and we steared on our course. The company of the brethren and families consisted of myself wife and child Elder Dan Jones and wife and Elders Milton Holmes and Leonard Hardy on mission to England to build up and sustain the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in that land

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Dec 8, 1844