The Father of the prophet Joseph was the first patriarch in
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He gave
a great many blessings unto the Latter Day Saints which are
recorded, and many of them have received their fulfillment, when he
puts hands upon the head of a person to bless them it seemed as
though the heavens were opened unto him, and he could reveal the
whole life of the person. He gave me my patriarchal blessing in the
Temple of the Lord in Kirtland on the 15 day of April 1837. Many mar-
velous things which he sealed upon my head in which I could see
no earthly chance for their fulfillment has already been fulfilled
to the very letter one or two instances I will name. He said I
should have access to the treasures hid in the sand to assist me in my
necessities in gathering myself and others to Zion. While in Cambridgeport
gathering up the Sants in 1850, Allexander Badlam went to Cal-
afornia on business and the Saints there who were diging gold filled
a little buck skin sack with gold dust and sent to me to assist
me on my mission by the sale of this treasure from the sands of California
I was enabled to gather myself family & a number of others to Zion
in the Mountains of Israel. He also said I should have power to
bring my Father & his houshold in to the Chur Church of Christ while on
my misson to Fox Islands I visited my Father in Farmington Conn ^Ct^
and preached the gospel to him and baptized him & all his
houshold including my Step Mother & ownly Sister M and
a Methodist Class leader who was boarding at my fathers

The Father of the prophet Joseph was the first patriarch in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He gave a great many blessings unto the Latter Day Saints which are recorded, and many of them have received their fulfillment, when he puts hands upon the head of a person to bless them it seemed as though the heavens were opened unto him, and he could reveal the whole life of the person. He gave me my patriarchal blessing in the Temple of the Lord in Kirtland on the 15 day of April 1837. Many marvelous things which he sealed upon my head in which I could see no earthly chance for their fulfillment has already been fulfilled to the very letter one or two instances I will name. He said I should have access to the treasures hid in the sand to assist me in my necessities in gathering myself and others to Zion. While in Cambridgeport gathering up the Sants in 1850, Allexander Boblam went to Calafornia on business and the Saints there who were diging gold filled a little buck skin sack with gold dust and sent to me to assist me on my mission by the sale of this treasure from the sands of California I was enabled to gather myself family & a number of others to Zion in the Mountains of Israel. He also said I should have power to bring my Father & his houshold in to the Church of Christ while on my misson to Fox Islands I visited my Father in Farmington Conn Ct and preached the gospel to him and baptized him & all his houshold including my Step Mother & ownly Sister and a Methodist Class leader who was boarding at my fathers