Day in the Life

Nov 17, 1848

Journal Entry

November 17, 1848 ~ Friday

17th I parted with Father Carter And Sister Foss And
their Families A with my family took cars And rode
to Boston then An omnibus And rode to Br A Badlams
No 1st Washington Street Cambridgeport distance 120 m[iles]
A folded letter/box A folded letter/box On my return to Cambridgeport I recieved 5 letters fro[m]
the following persons 2 from Orson Pratt, 1 from John
Enions, Joseph Hall, W. I. Appleby, And one from Wm
Maxfield of Bedeque directed to Orson Spencer of Liverpo
And sent to me to Answer. I Also recieved 5 No of the
Star All bearing good news of the progress of the work
of the Lord in that place.

People

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Badlam, Alexander, b. 1808
28 Nov 1808 - 1 Dec 1894
102 mentions
Zion's Camp
Carter, Ezra, b. 1773
18 Mar 1773 - 10 Mar 1868
288 mentions
Family
15 mentions
Hall, Joseph
unk.-1850
5 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1083 mentions
Apostle
Spencer, Orson
14 Mar 1802 - 15 Oct 1855
74 mentions
Foss, Sarah Brackett Carter
30 Sep 1800 - 4 Mar 1894
185 mentions
Family
Appleby, William Ivins
13 Aug 1811 - 20 May 1870
67 mentions
9 mentions

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Bedeque, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, British North America
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Cambridgeport, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Liverpool, Lancashire, England

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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
the when I parted with Father Carter and the rest of our family ^there^ and with my wife and children to ^took^ the rail to Boston and thence by ominibus to Cambridgeport where I received letters from Orson Pratt and others all bearing good news of the progress of the work of the Lord in England. I took a house in Cambridgeport for my family and continued labouring with the Saints in Boston until

Nov 17, 1848