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Day in the Life

Oct 31, 1848

Journal Entry

October 31, 1848 ~ Tuesday

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31st Br Rockwood came in the morning I spent a few
moments with him He informed me that Br John Luce
informed him that Letters had been recieved from the
Salt Lake Valley as late as the 9th of July that there Harvest
of wheat came in full & heavy they had wheat enough alone
to last the Encampment two years also that they had large
crops of corn & was doing well that it was also healthy, this
was certainly Glorious news to us. Br Badlam went into
Boston with me I procured some things for my wife and
children then took cars and arived in Saco at 8 oclok
hired a waggon and rode to Sister Foss's I there found my
wife and children and I spent the night with them 105

People

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Rockwood, Albert Perry
9 Jun 1805 - 26 Nov 1879
123 mentions
Badlam, Alexander, b. 1808
28 Nov 1808 - 1 Dec 1894
99 mentions
Luce, John G.
1817-1881
12 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1551 mentions
Family
Foss, Sarah Brackett Carter
30 Sep 1800 - 4 Mar 1894
180 mentions
Family

Places

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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory
Saco, York County, Maine

Oct 31, 1848