17^th I left Boston in rail cars rode to Saco fare
$2.75 I walked one mile & rode 4 mile in
John Coles pung paid 75 cts He bought Luther
Scammons place I called upon Sister Foss found
her well in good helth, faith, And spirits I
Found Her accompanied by Phebe Foss & Phebe
A Woodruff who I found to be a large fleshy
girl I soon caught her in my arms & kissed
her I took dinner with Sister Foss & went
with her to Father Carters in a waggon we had
to go through John Fabyan lot the lane was so
drifted with snow. I Fouwnd Father Carter
& Fabyan all well & Rohoda. I think Mary has
Failed she was pleased to see me. we all spent
the night at Father Carters And had a good time
father bears his age well. He informed me
that Mother Carters spirit appeared to him
almost evry night A few nights Ago she
was wisth him put her Arms around his neck
And leaned upon him Father asked her
why she did so she says because I pitty you
During the evening I informed Father Carter
of Phebes last request that Father would
be baptizebd & recieve the Priesthood And
my feelings were vary peculier when he
informed me that He had had a desire at
times of Being Baptised by the s an Elder of

the Latter Day Saints And thought if
I would stay over another day He would
be baptized I immediately consented to do
so for I felt willing to make any sacrifice in
my power to accomplish so desireable An object
And be enabled to carry such glad tidings to
his worthy Daughter Phebe who had made the
request at his hands in fact I was so over wheled
with Joy at the thought that my eyes sent forth
A fountain of tears of Joy And gladness I spent
A vary plesent evening with him I knew it would
require much faith And perseverance for him
to go foreward in that ordinance in his old age
in the midst of cold weather with the ground
coverd with snow And the water with Ice
I read And Prayed with them And retired to
there front chamber A spent the night alon for
the last time in that House probably in this life I
bowed my knees & offered up my prayer to God for
Father Carter & all the family esspecially for my
Dear wife And children with whom I had spent
many A sweet hour beneath that roof And who
are truly worthy O How I want to see them
My prayer to God is that they may be preserved
from sickness And death. I had many peculier
meditations upon my bed during the night
I thought of the whole family esspecially the
sacrifizes that Phebe And myself had made to-
gether I felt more anxious than ever that we
might spend an eternity together with the
posterity which God had given us. But I fell
asleep And when I awoke the sun was shining
in my room. The Morning came And disappoint-
ment come with it for I found on enquiry that
Father Carter had made up his mind not to be
Baptized this time As the other page will show He
firmly believed in the book of Mormon And in our
faith but could not get an evidence that it was
his duty to be baptized at this time I laboured
hard to take away his objections but his mind was
made up And I saw it could not be changed