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Day in the Life

Jan 1, 1845

Journal Entry

January 01, 1845 ~ Wednesday

JAN 1st 1845

This new years day finds me on board of
the Packet ship John R Skiddy in the british
Channel beating against head wind trying
to get to Liverpool. I am on a mission to England
to take charge of the affairs both temporal &
spiritual concerns of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints. I am accompanied by
Mrs Woodruff, & our youngest child Susan
Cornelia. Also Elder Hiram Clark & wife Elder
Dan Jones & wife, Elders Milton Holmes & Leonard
Hardy, all on a mission to England to labour
in the vineyard of the Lord.

We have been in
the Irish Channel 5 days beating against head
wind makindg but little progress I pray the
Lord to speed us on our way

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Jones, Dan
4 Aug 1810 - 3 Jan 1862
92 mentions
Clark, Hiram, b. 1795
22 Sep 1795 - 28 Dec 1853
111 mentions
8 mentions
Hardy, Leonard Wilford
31 Dec 1805 - 31 Jul 1884
222 mentions
Family
217 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
Family
Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
357 mentions
Family
18 mentions

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England
English Channel, Europe
Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Mission - Receipt for Donation to British Museum Library, 7 June 1845
Letter from Mary Ann Mitchell Davis, ca. 1845

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Jan 1, 1845