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Day in the Life

Oct 24, 1845

Journal Entry

October 24, 1845 ~ Friday

24th [FIGURE] I met with Elders Hedlock & Ward
this morning & laid before them the feelings
of my whole soul concerning our situation
in Liverpool both temporally & spiritually
their had been quit[e] a misunderstanding among
us for six month we had not bowed our
knees together for that length of time but I
told the brethren what I wished to de done
And it seemed to be a profitable meeting
At the close we bowed our knees together
& had prayers, And we came to an under
standing of each other 4

24th I parted with the Saints in Peterborough took
stage & rode to Nashua, took cars & rode to Boston
fare from Peterboro to Boston $3. I took cab rode
to the post office obtained [FIGURES] a letter from Phebe at
[FIGURE] 2 Scarboroug stating that the children were both sick
or had been & Phebe vary sick at the present time
I rode to Br Phelps read my letters with feelings of
interest Prepared for leaving early in the morning
Elder Crosby spent the night with me, there had been a
serious time in Boston in some trials in my absence 80 miles

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Crosby, Jonathan
20 Jul 1807 - 12 Jun 1892
2 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
Family
154 mentions
Ward, Thomas
1808-1847
112 mentions

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Letter to Brigham Young, 24 October 1845
Liverpool President Brigham Young Beloved Brother I again seat myself to address you with pen & Ink upon several subjects that are are upon my mind I was informed by the last Nauvoo paper that we got that the mob commmened Burning Houses in [Lyman] 42 I think the Neighbor stated was burned that is the last authentice account we have from there. the Lpool papers have since been teaming with accounts from that county of later Date stating that from 70 to 300 Houses were burned & that the Twelve had Entered into an agreemnt with the mob to Leave Nauvoo & the Couty at such a time & a varyety of other things But my experience has in this kingdom has taught me to pay No t^a^ttintion to anything or give credit to any Report except it come from the proper source. I am not alarmed at any of these things Neither should I be if the Sants should Leave Hancock Co for a season & go into the wilderness or anywhare els whare the Lord should order
Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
On the I met with Elders Hedlock and Ward and laid before them my feelings concerning our situation in Liverpool both temporally and spiritually. There had not been a good understanding between us for some time but I told these brethren what I wished to be done and seemingly our meeting was profitable and at the close of our consultation we bowed our knees together before God. Towards the latter end of the following month I received intelligence from President Young that the State of Illinois would not protect the citizens of Nauvoo and that the only terms of peace granted at all was upon condition of our people leaving the State. The Presidency of the Church and the community themselves had been under the necessity of agreeing to leave the State of Illinois the next Spring. I wrote in return to President Young expressing my feelings severely upon this extermination of the Saints and asked his counsel whether I should tarry in England or return to America. I also sent him a duplicate of the entering of the copyright of the

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Oct 24, 1845