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Jan 23, 1846

Journal Entry

January 23, 1846 ~ Friday

23rd we hoisted Anchor at 8 oclok &
And A Steemer hiched onto us & took
us into the Channel about 15 miles &
left us we then made sail for our
course the ship was However
searched before the Steemer left for
smuglers when 5 persons were found
stowed away in the Hold they were
printices [apprentices] had run away from there
Masters they were taken on shore And
probably had to return to there Masters
we sailed through the day before A
light breeze And while my wife children
And other friends are crossing the Atlantic
to New orleans on the ship Liverpool
I am now starting to cross the same
sea to New York May the Lord preserv
us all safe to meet again is my prayer

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
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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On final day of work in temple, 600 received ordinances; total of 5,615 received endowments in Nauvoo.
Times and Seasons stops serial publication of the Manuscript History of the Church (history ends with events on August 11, 1834).

Jan 23, 1846