Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
The tug left us about 15 miles out
and we set sail and went on our course
My wife and children with a company
of the Saints were crossing the Atlantic for New Orleans on
the ship Liverpool and I now commencing my voyage
accross to New York. It was designed that my wife
with the two children with her should go direct towards Nauvoo
and I by the way of New York to fetch my daughter Phebe
from my wife's sister ^Sarah Foss^ in Sc^arborough^ and also
to take with me to Nauvoo my Father and Stepmother
Man Overboard
About a week after we set sail during a
roughish day ^storm^ the second mate steped forward to the bow
of the ship and ordered one of the hands to do something on
the bowsprit who refused upon the plea that it was
dangerous and at the risk of his life. The mate replied
that he would not ask a man to do a thing he was not
willing to do himself and forthwith attempted the task
At the same moment we shipped a sea which instantly
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