Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
On the I went into Boston with Father
Carter Mrs Woodruff and our daughters Phebe and Susan and got our
degurrotype likness taken in a group by brother M Cannon
and in the evening I met with Father Carter and my wife Phebe
and conversed with him upon the subject of the Priesthood. I then
laid my hands upon him and ordained him to the office of High
Priest and to the office of a Patriarch in the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. It was fully manifested to me that he
was of the blood of Ephraim and the power of God rested upon us
and we were filled with the spirit of prophecy and rejoicing
The New York Herald contained an
account of the visit of the Engeneers of the Panoma railroad
Epxpedition to the people lately dicovered called the Mandingo
Indians at the Mandingo Bay which contains 113 Islands
held in the sole possession of the Mandingo Indians who do
