Nov 19th A cold morning we left Br Way's & travled to the Inn of J. W. G. & spent the night 8 m[iles]
~ Tuesday
20 We have made arangments this morning to seperate Brother Thomas & Townsend think some of
stoping by the way to winter while Brothers E. Luce & C. Brown & myself will continue our journey
together. our company is truly getting small. one of my horses is vary sick for the night truly the Lord
ownly can open my way to continue my Journey after getting our waggon mended we travled to an Inn
within 7 miles of woster & spent the night. my horse is much better & performs his Journey well our 12 [miles] 21company is now reduced to three families we feel united in spirit & are determined to Journey
in the name of the Lord we had a comfortable room at the Inn by ourselves for the night & while
sitting by the fireside Sister Lydia Luce a faithful Saint & full of faith related a dream that she had
on the night of the 19th the dream was of consequence & full of meaning it was as follows She saw
the moon in the North of a silver colour she saw a small sun in the south & while looking at the strange
appearance of the heavens there appeared a ring of Blood in the west & there soon appeared several
other rings of Blood of a larger size all encircling each other being a ring in a ring & there soon appeared
a ladder of fire in the heavens & it fell to the earth & broke in two pieces one part of the ladder had an
Iron plate fassened to the end of it with sumthing fassended to it & I Willford Woodruff went & picked
it up & read it & behold it contained the XVChapterof Isaiah read the chapter for yourselves &
learn wisdom
~ Wednesday
21st Travled to Woster to Washington & spent the night at the Inn of Robison a bad man {Distance} 22
~ Thursday
22 Travled to Loudenville from thence to Amity Knox County & spent the night at the Inn of David Jackson
we are continually hearing of the mormon war as it is called but it would be more proper to call it the gentile
persecutions against the Saints for the inhabitants of Missouri are persecuting & putting to death the
Saints because of their religion {Distance} 20
24 We passed through Sunbury & spent the night at the Inn of Mr Osbury in Blendon 22
~ Monday
Nov 19th A cold morning we left Br Way's & travled to the Inn of J. W. G. & spent the night 8 m
~ Tuesday
20 We have made arangments this morning to seperate Brother Thomas & Townsend think some of
stoping by the way to winter while Brothers E. Luce & C. Brown & myself will continue our journey
together. our company is truly getting small. one of my horses is vary sick for the night truly the Lord
ownly can open my way to continue my Journey after getting our waggon mended we travled to an Inn
within 7 miles of woster & spent the night. my horse is much better & performs his Journey well. our 12
company is now reduced to three families we feel united in spirit & are determined to Journey
in the name of the Lord we had a comfortable room at the Inn by ourselves for the night & while
sitting by the fireside Sister Lydia Luce a faithful saint & full of faith related a dream that she had
on the night of the 19th the dream was of consequence & full of meaning it was as follows She saw
the moon in the North of a silver colour she saw a small sun in the south & while looking at the strange
appearance of the heavens there appeared a ring of Blood in the west & there soon appeared several
other rings of Blood of a larger size all encircling each other being a ring in a ring & there soon appeared
a ladder of fire in the heavens & it fell to the earth & broke in two pieces one part of the ladder had an
Iron plate fassened to the end of it with sumthing fassened to it & I Willford Woodruff went & picked
it up & read it & behold it contained the XVChapterof Isaiah read the chapter for yourselves &
learn wisdom
~ Wednesday
21st Travled to Woster to Washington & spent the night at the Inn of Robison a bad man {Distance} 22
~ Thursday
22 Travled to Loudenville from thence to Amity Knox county & spent the night at the Inn of David Jackson
we are continually hearing of the mormon war as it is called but it would be more proper to call it the gentile
persecutions against the saints for the inhabitants of Missouri are persecuting & putting to death the
saints because of their religion {Distance} 20
~ Friday
23 Phebe was attacked with a severe head ake which terminated in the brain fever. We travled to
Mount Vernon to Centerbury & spent the night at the Inn of H Jones 22
"Journal (January 1, 1838 – December 31, 1839)," November 19, 1838 - November 24, 1838, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 6, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/n0l