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Day in the Life

Aug 26, 1848

Journal Entry

August 26, 1848 ~ Saturday

26th [FIGURE] I recieved the Daily Times this morning saying that
news had been recieved from the city of the Salt lake as late
as the first of May & that the Saints was in a distressed
condition for bread & that the crickets had eat up all
their wheet & barley &c how true it is we do not know
I recieved A visit from Elder Leonard Hardy He stoped with
27th me one hour we then took the rail road & went to Haverhill
took the express to Bradford & walked to Mr Burbanks
And spent the night distance from Boston 30 m

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Hardy, Leonard Wilford
31 Dec 1805 - 31 Jul 1884
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts
Great Salt Lake City, Mexican Cession Territory
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts

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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
Here I tarried until the holding meetings associating with the Saints gathering up the exciting news of the world writing letters & directing the affairs of the Church and then went to Bradford with Elder Leonard Hardy On the Sunday we held meetings with the Saints at Bro Samuel B Hardy's at East Bradford and while at this place I spent a few hours with Milton Holmes who was quite gloomy feeling unhappy and knowing not what course to take

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Aug 26, 1848