Day in the Life

Aug 5, 1849

Journal Entry

August 05, 1849 ~ Sunday

5th Sunday A Hard rainy morning I took the parting hand
this Morning with Brother Joseph Russell He is truly a
man of faith & great kindness we have had an interesting
time together wehen we parted He gave me A suit of New
clothes & other presents paid all my expenses while together
& gave me money to help me home May the Lord bless
him & reward him fourfold. I took the open stage &
rode to the bend. both Shediac & the bend are small villages
the ownly busines ther seems to be going on in this region
of country for many miles is getting out Hetmatee knees
to send to Boston & New York for building ships in the states
but they are making a great mistake in this thing in the
commencement of the trade by cutting them in the summer

season instead of fall or winter for those cut in the summer
or winter season will not keep over three years bfor in that time
all the gum will work out & dry rot will follow & they become
as light as A cork And any ship or steam boat will be runied
whare they are used, while those cut from Sept to March
will last 50 or more years retain the gum & be sound this
is important information which I recieved from Joseph
Russell who in 20 years has built over 40 ships over 600
tone burthen. I spent the night at an Inn at the bend 15 [miles]

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Russell, Joseph
17 Aug 1786 - 10 Mar 1855
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
New York
Shediac, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, British North America
The Bend, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, British North America

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August 5, 1849 ~ Sunday 5th Sunday A Hard rainy morning I took the parting hand this Morning with Brother Joseph Russell He is truly a man of faith & great kindness we have had an interesting time together wehen we parted He gave me A suit of New clothes & other presents paid all my expenses while together & gave me money to help me home May the Lord bless him & reward him fourfold.
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
On the I took the parting hand of Brother Russell to return to my family. My mission to the eastern Churches had been given to me by the Presidency to preside ^over^ the churches in the United States and the British Provinces and to obtain monies to releive the Church of indebtedness. From Elder Joseph Russell I obtained for this object $1500 and when we parted he also gave me personally a new suit of clothes, other presents paid all my expenses and gave me money to help me home to the Valley.

Aug 5, 1849